WASHINGTON—White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt addressed viral deportation videos put out on social media by President Donald Trump&#8217;s administration, saying that the administration is &#8220;unafraid&#8221; to &#8220;take responsibility and ownership&#8221; of its border policies.
During Monday&#8217;s White House press briefing, The Daily Wire asked Leavitt about new content promoted on social media by the administration&#8217;s top accounts, including the White House, Trump War Room, the Rapid Response 47 account, and others.
One of these videos, posted Monday morning by the White House &#8220;X&#8221; account, depicts illegal immigrants being handcuffed and put on planes to the tune of Semisonic&#8217;s song &#8220;Closing Time,&#8221; specifically the lines: &#8220;You don&#8217;t have to go home but you can&#8217;t stay here.&#8221;
&#8220;I think the White House and our entire government clearly is leaning into the message of this President,&#8221; Leavitt explained, &#8220;and we are unafraid to double down and to take responsibility and ownership of the serious decisions that are being made.&#8221;
&#8220;The President was elected with an overwhelming mandate to launch the largest mass deportation campaign in American history, and that&#8217;s exactly what he is doing and to this very day, we are now, I think 56 or seven days into the administration, by my count, the President still receives an overwhelming public support for the policies that he is enacting, so we are unafraid to message effectively what the president is doing on a daily basis to make our communities safer.&#8221;
&#8220;The specific video you referenced,&#8221; added Leavitt, &#8220;I think it sums up our immigration policy pretty well: &#8216;You don&#8217;t have to go home, but you can&#8217;t stay here.&#8217;”
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Leavitt fielded a number of questions from reporters on Monday about the Trump administration&#8217;s deportation of more than 250 illegal alien gang members to El Salvador over the weekend. Those prisoners included 21 MS-13 gang members and more than 230 Tren de Aragua members, Leavitt noted on Monday.
On Saturday, U.S. District Judge James Boasberg issued an order demanding that the deportations cease. The Trump administration ignored this order, and has since said that the flights were already in the air when the order was issued. The White House is also arguing that the judge did not have any &#8220;lawful basis&#8221; for such an order.
&#8220;The Administration did not ‘refuse to comply’ with a court order,&#8221; Leavitt said in a statement last night. &#8220;The order, which had no lawful basis, was issued after terrorist TdA aliens had already been removed from U.S. territory. The written order and the Administration’s actions do not conflict.&#8221;
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&#8220;Moreover,&#8221; she added, &#8220;as the Supreme Court has repeatedly made clear — federal courts generally have no jurisdiction over the President’s conduct of foreign affairs, his authorities under the Alien Enemies Act, and his core Article II powers to remove foreign alien terrorists from U.S. soil and repel a declared invasion. A single judge in a single city cannot direct the movements of an aircraft carrying foreign alien terrorists who were physically expelled from U.S. soil.&#8221;
Border Czar Tom Homan sparked backlash during a Fox News appearance on Monday when he said of the judge&#8217;s order: &#8220;We are going to make this country safe again&#8230;I&#8217;m proud to be a part of this administration. We are not stopping. I don&#8217;t care what the judges think. I don&#8217;t care what the Left thinks. We&#8217;re coming.&#8221;
Asked what was coming next, he told reporters: &#8220;Another flight. Another flight every day.&#8221;
When a reporter in the briefing room pressed Leavitt about Homan&#8217;s remarks, suggesting that Homan was expressing defiance of orders coming from the federal bench, Leavitt responded: &#8220;Since you quoted Tom, I&#8217;ll quote Tom: &#8216;I don&#8217;t care what the judges think,&#8217; but I can assure you that the administration is complying with the court order.&#8221;
She also told the reporter that the Trump &#8220;administration is complying with the court order,&#8221; that all flights were &#8220;subject to the judge&#8217;s written order departed before the written order,&#8221; and that the Trump White House is &#8220;encouraging illegal immigrants to actively self-deport.&#8221;

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Border czar Tom Homan gave no quarter to a reporter who pressed him on Monday over President Donald Trump&#8217;s decision to designate members of a violent Venezuelan prison gang — Tren de Aragua — as terrorists under the Alien Enemies Act.
The reporter suggested that the administration was attempting to get around due process for illegal aliens associated with Tren de Aragua by enforcing &#8220;a 200-year-old law&#8217; — with the obvious implication being that the law was somehow invalidated by the date on which it had first been enacted.
&#8220;What do you say to those who claim you&#8217;re using a 200-year-old law to circumvent due process?&#8221; the reporter asked.
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Reporter: &quot;That law is 200 years old!&quot;
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&#8220;An &#8216;old&#8217; law?&#8221; Homan pushed back immediately. &#8220;It&#8217;s not as old as the Constitution, and we still pay attention to that don&#8217;t we?&#8221;
Reporters continued to shout questions at Homan, but he simply shook his head and walked away.
The Trump administration deported more than 250 illegal alien gang members to El Salvador over the weekend in accordance with an agreement between President Donald Trump and Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele. The prisoners — more than 230 Tren de Aragua members and another 21 associated with MS-13 — were taken to a mega-prison.
Trump shared video on Sunday of the planes landing in El Salvador and the prisoners disembarking, and he thanked President Bukele for his cooperation. &#8220;We will not forget!&#8221;
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Bukele also touted the deal, calling it a win for both El Salvador and the United States. &#8220;On this occasion, the U.S. has also sent us 23 MS-13 members wanted by Salvadoran justice, including two ringleaders. One of them is a member of the criminal organization’s highest structure. This will help us finalize intelligence gathering and go after the last remnants of MS-13, including its former and new members, money, weapons, drugs, hideouts, collaborators, and sponsors. As always, we continue advancing in the fight against organized crime. But this time, we are also helping our allies, making our prison system self-sustainable, and obtaining vital intelligence to make our country an even safer place. All in a single action. May God bless El Salvador, and may God bless the United States.&#8221;
The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/these-are-the-monsters-trump-admin-deported-over-250-gang-members-to-el-salvador" target="_blank" rel="noopener">deportation flights</a> went ahead as planned despite a Saturday order from U.S. District Judge James Boasberg demanding that they return to the United States and that future flights be held pending a hearing. White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said the flights had gone ahead as scheduled because the ruling was not lawful.
&#8220;The Administration did not ‘refuse to comply’ with a court order. The order, which had no lawful basis, was issued after terrorist TdA aliens had already been removed from U.S. territory. The written order and the Administration’s actions do not conflict,” Leavitt posted.
“Moreover, as the Supreme Court has repeatedly made clear — federal courts generally have no jurisdiction over the President’s conduct of foreign affairs, his authorities under the Alien Enemies Act, and his core Article II powers to remove foreign alien terrorists from U.S. soil and repel a declared invasion. A single judge in a single city cannot direct the movements of an aircraft carrier full of foreign alien terrorists who were physically expelled from U.S. soil,&#8221; she concluded.

Tom Homan Torches Reporter Over Trump’s Use Of 200-Year-Old Alien Enemies Act

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The illegal alien population in the United States recently hit a record high in the wake of the Biden administration’s border policies and now sits at a whopping 18.6 million, a recent study found.
The <a href="https://www.fairus.org/issue/how-many-illegal-aliens-are-united-states-2025-update">study</a> from the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) found that the number of illegal aliens present in the United States has surged 11 percent since June 2023, when the estimate sat at 16.8 million. The figure sits a full 28.2 percent higher than in December 2020, the month before former President Joe Biden took office.
Under FAIR’s new estimate, the illegal alien population present in the country is believed to be <a href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/largest-U-S-state-by-population">greater</a> than the populations of all but the four most populous states in the union. “As of 2025, American population growth comes almost entirely from unsustainably high levels of immigration, both legal and illegal,” FAIR wrote.
<div id="attachment_891291" style="width: 816px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-891291" class="wp-image-891291" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/03/2025_pop_Figure1-1024x554.png" alt="" width="806" height="436" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/03/2025_pop_Figure1-1024x554.png 1024w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/03/2025_pop_Figure1-300x162.png 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/03/2025_pop_Figure1-768x416.png 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/03/2025_pop_Figure1-1536x831.png 1536w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/03/2025_pop_Figure1-2048x1108.png 2048w" sizes="(max-width: 806px) 100vw, 806px" />From The Federation for American Immigration Reform</div>
FAIR, which advocates for border security and a reduction in legal immigration, asserts that the increased illegal alien population was due largely to “pull factors” resulting from the Biden administration’s border policies.
“In its first few months in power, the Biden administration sent a strong message of welcome to would-be illegal aliens,” FAIR writes, citing the former White House’s decisions to halt border wall construction, expand the grounds for claiming asylum, and rescind Asylum Cooperative Agreements, further expanding the pool of migrants who could apply for asylum.
“These policies had the expected effect,” FAIR charges. “Illegal border crossings began to rise as soon as the Biden administration took office, and they continued growing to catastrophic levels throughout the administration’s term.”
The organization also noted the challenges that come when attempting to estimate the illegal population, while also contending that other estimates significantly undercount the true figure. “Estimating the size, distribution, and characteristics of the illegal alien population is an inexact science,” FAIR points out. &#8220;We do not know exactly how many people cross the border illegally and evade immigration authorities, nor can anyone accurately quantify overstays or gotaways.”
“The Department of Homeland Security only (loosely) counts foreign nationals who enter and leave the United States in a lawful manner,” FAIR noted, adding that “its illegal alien population estimates remain unhelpful due to underestimating the size of the population and utilizing outdated numbers.”
FAIR&#8217;s estimate comes a year after the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) found that the foreign-born population in the United States reached a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/foreign-born-population-hits-new-high-with-surge-under-biden-fueled-by-illegal-immigration">new high</a> of 51.6 million in March 2024. The increase under the Biden administration, CIS estimated, was due primarily to mass illegal immigration.
Border crossings have <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/vance-does-victory-lap-at-border-all-it-took-was-a-new-president">plummeted</a> to record lows under President Donald Trump, whose administration has carried out waves of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/more-than-500-criminal-illegal-aliens-captured-by-ice-in-week-long-houston-raids">deportation operations</a>. Other policies could encourage illegal aliens to leave the United States on their own.
Congress could require businesses across the country to use the E-Verify system to confirm the legal status of would-be employees and prevent illegal aliens from acquiring jobs. Border Czar Tom Homan <a href="https://thehill.com/opinion/immigration/524920-to-stop-illegal-immigration-crack-down-on-illegal-employment">celebrated</a> the program in 2020, saying that it “is the best tool available, and currently prevents a significant amount of unauthorized employment.”

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Border Czar Tom Homan says President Trump will use the &#8220;full might&#8221; of the federal government to crush the drug cartels.
“We’re not just going to attack them on the southern border, we’re going to attack them across the globe,” Homan said on Daily Wire Backstage Live ahead of Trump&#8217;s Tuesday night address to Congress. “We’re going to use the full might of the federal government to take them out.” The Trump administration official went on to detail the scope of the crisis, noting that the cartels have a presence in every major American city.
“This is the biggest national security vulnerability I’ve seen in my lifetime,” he said of the millions of illegal aliens that had been allowed to enter and stay in the United States under the previous administration.
Homan joined Daily Wire Backstage to tout Trump’s success on the southern border. His comments came as President Trump has taken a wide range of actions to secure the southern border and enforce federal immigration law to deport illegal aliens already present in the United States.
“What he did in three weeks the Biden administration failed to do in four years,” Homan told The Daily Wire hosts before going on to celebrate the steep decline in illegal border crossings into the United States. “We’ve had the lowest border numbers in history of the United States border, and that’s not an exaggeration … President Trump did that in four weeks, so imagine what he is going to do in the next 47 months.”
Trump signed an executive order on his first day in office to designate the Mexican drug cartels as foreign terror organizations, a move that Homan said will allow the federal government to crush the cartels and free Mexico from the control of the violent criminal entities.
He also explained that the first step to crippling the cartels was to eliminate their funding through border security measures that cut off cartel smuggling routes. “If they don’t have money, they don’t have power,” he noted, pointing out that cartels lose the ability to pay off politicians and law enforcement once their revenue stalls.
“We’re going to shut them down one piece at a time. What President Trump did designating them foreign terrorist organizations is the first step to wiping these cartels off the face of this earth,” Homan said before adding that Mexico will be “more grateful than anybody” because “Mexico doesn’t want to be under the control of the cartels.
He also explained that the Biden administration willfully opened the border, allowing the cartels to rake in cash from their transnational human and drug smuggling operations.
“This administration knew how to fix it, they just didn’t choose to fix it,” he said of the Biden administration, adding that the Democrat didn’t simply mismanage the border but instead “ran on open borders,” Homan charged. “No one celebrated that election more than criminal cartels. They knew they were back in business.”
Daily Wire Host Michael Knowles and Homan took a playful jab at congressional Democrats after Knowles joked that the Trump administration official might be able to deport politicians who attempt to disrupt the 47th president’s speech tonight.
“Don’t tempt me,” Homan said.
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/michaeljknowles?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@michaeljknowles</a>: &#8220;Democrat lawmakers are planning to interrupt this speech with all sorts of noisemakers and make a general nuisance of themselves &#8230; would it be possible for you to deport them as well?
HOMAN: &#8220;Don&#8217;t tempt me.&#8221;
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But Homan explained that he’s been sparring with Democrats over immigration and deportations. Democrats like <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/aoc-admits-she-was-openly-advising-illegals-on-how-to-avoid-law-enforcement">Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez</a> (D-NY) and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nevada-attorney-general-helps-chinese-illegal-aliens-dodge-deportation">Nevada Attorney General</a> Aaron Ford have told illegal aliens how they might be able to avoid deportations.
“I can’t believe that any member of Congress wants to educate an illegal alien, who has been convicted of a serious offense, who has an order of removal, and they want to educate them on how to evade arrest? Homan fumed. “To me they ought to resign from their position as a member of Congress.”
Homan turned his attention to other politicians who’ve worked to prevent the deportation of illegal aliens. The Trump administration official also added that politicians who lead sanctuary jurisdictions and knowingly harbor illegal aliens could be subject to prosecution by Attorney General Pam Bondi.
Homan closed by thanking members of Border Patrol and Immigration and Customs Enforcement. “These are the men and women on the border 24/7” and who wear a “kevlar vest and a gun on their hip” as they bust illegal aliens in sanctuary cities.

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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) said during a recent interview that illegal aliens were among her constituents.
The socialist lawmaker made the remarks in an interview late last week on NPR&#8217;s &#8220;Morning Edition&#8221; when asked about Border Czar Tom Homan&#8217;s recent remarks about her advising illegal aliens on how to avoid federal immigration authorities.
&#8220;I was informing all of my constituents of their constitutional protections and, in particular, their constitutional protections against illegal search and seizure in the United States,&#8221; she claimed.
NPR noted that Homan was upset over AOC&#8217;s remarks because she was giving advice to illegal aliens on how to continue violating America&#8217;s laws.
When asked point blank if that is what she was doing, AOC responded: &#8220;I was giving advice to all of my constituents, yeah.&#8221;
Homan reached out to the Department of Justice to seek guidance on whether what AOC was doing constituted a crime.
She said that she has not heard from the DOJ, but she plans on reaching out to inquire about the matter.
When asked what she would ask the DOJ, AOC said: &#8220;There is a member of the Trump administration who is threatening and seeks to open an inquiry, and are you going to do it?&#8221;
She claimed that the Trump administration was &#8220;bluffing&#8221; and that it was important to call it out.
&#8220;I think that this is what authoritarians do. I think this is what kleptocracies do,&#8221; she claimed. &#8220;They rely on the illusion of power.&#8221;
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More than 100 illegal aliens were captured on Monday in the joint deportation operation from the Department of Homeland Security and the Texas Department of Public Safety inside Colony Ridge, the massive Texas development that The Daily Wire exposed as a magnet for illegal aliens.
Border czar Tom Homan described Monday&#8217;s actions as “phase one” of a “larger criminal investigation.” He also highlighted the number of criminal illegal aliens inside Colony Ridge.
&#8220;This is something a little different today,&#8221; Homan <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/homeland-security-texas-agents-arrest-around-90-illegal-immigrants">said</a> to Fox News. &#8220;You know, this is a larger criminal investigation into a network. And a lot of the people we were interested in were located in that area.&#8221; ICE <a href="https://x.com/ICEgov/status/1894485344923652152">reported</a> that a total of 118 illegal aliens, including some suspected of homicide, manslaughter, manslaughter, and child sexual abuse, were caught at the development.
&#8220;The last number I saw was around 69 criminals,&#8221; Homan added, discussing those who have criminal records beyond entering the United States illegally. &#8220;I know for a fact, several child sexual predators were arrested.&#8221;
One of those alleged child sexual predators was Florentin Chevez-Luna, a 39-year-old, three-time previously deported criminal alien from El Salvador.
An ICE spokesman told The Daily Wire that Chevez-Luna “was arrested by ICE and Texas DPS pursuant to a criminal arrest warrant for alleged repeated sexual abuse of a minor over an eight-year period from November 2008 to November 2016.”
Colony Ridge CEO John Harris said that he was thankful for the efforts to arrest the criminal illegal aliens living in the development.
&#8220;We are grateful for the efforts of Governor Abbott, Tom Homan and all those involved in rooting out criminal illegals in Texas,&#8221; Harris stated. &#8220;In fact, DPS officers have been working throughout Colony Ridge for more than two years. They know who the bad guys are, so we are fully supportive of these efforts.”
He also went on to claim that Colony Ridge is “one of the safest communities of its size anywhere in Texas” despite the raid revealing that criminal illegal aliens were active in the area.
Colony Ridge, just north of Houston, has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/inside-colony-ridge-the-fastest-growing-development-in-the-u-s-is-a-magnet-for-illegal-immigrants">systematically attracted</a> illegal aliens to the development, encouraging buyers to “own land in the United States” and advertising that land purchases can be made without social security numbers. A litany of criminal illegal aliens, including drug runners and murder suspects, have been caught in Colony Ridge even before the latest raid. 
This story has been updated to reflect an increase in the number of illegal aliens that authorities report were captured at Colony Ridge.

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Trump Border Czar Tom Homan delivered a fiery speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference, praising the administration&#8217;s border security strides and promising an even more aggressive crackdown on illegal immigration.
Homan praised the Trump administration for achieving “the most secure border in my lifetime” and vowed to “open up every avenue of law enforcement” to combat illegal immigration.
In less than a month under these renewed measures, Homan said illegal crossings have dropped “95%” while Immigration and Customs Enforcement has conducted more than “21,000” arrests.
He also criticized sanctuary cities as providing a “sanctuary for criminals” and announced a broader interior crackdown. Homan further declared the administration’s intent to label Mexican cartels as terrorist groups, warning that their collaborators would be assisting a “terrorist organization.”
Homan used much of his remarks to underscore the need for strong cooperation between federal and local agencies. He censured officials who refuse to turn over individuals suspected of crimes to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), portraying them as harboring violent offenders.
“We’re not making this s*** up. We’re enforcing the laws enacted by Congress,” he said, warning all “criminal aliens” would be prosecuted and removed from the country.
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He singled out certain cities in particular, including Boston, where Homan said criminals had been released back into communities instead of being transferred for deportation proceedings. “I’m coming to Boston,” he declared. “I’m bringing hell with me.”
Homan’s goal in these cities would be to track down offenders who had evaded federal action and ensure that “they’re locked back up.”
In addition to broader enforcement efforts, Homan suggested tapping into resources across multiple federal agencies to bolster arrests and prosecutions in areas with high violent crime. He noted that coordinated initiatives, including assistance from the United States Marshals Service and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, would supplement ICE operations that focus on guns, narcotics, and other serious offenses. By tightening interagency cooperation, Homan said, officials would ensure criminal suspects faced prosecution before deportation.
Homan stressed that moral imperatives and national security interests aligned in enforcing these laws, promising that with government backing, officials would keep the pace until “every criminal alien, every gang member” was apprehended and removed.
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On Monday night, Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem issued a harsh &#8220;warning&#8221; to prospective illegal immigrants, declaring, “If you are considering entering America illegally, don&#8217;t even think about it.”
Noem announced on social media &#8220;a nationwide and international multimillion-dollar ad campaign warning illegal aliens to leave our country NOW or face deportation with the inability to return to the US.”
“This serves as a strong warning to criminal illegal aliens to not come to America. If they do, they will be hunted down and deported. Thank you @realdonaldtrump for securing our border and putting America first,” she continued.
In an accompanying video, Noem bluntly stated,
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Let me deliver a message from President Trump to the world. If you are considering entering America illegally, don&#8217;t even think about it. Let me be clear. If you come to our country and you break our laws, we will hunt you down. Criminals are not welcome in the United States. For too long, weak leadership has left our borders wide open, flooding our communities with drugs, human trafficking, and violent criminals.
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“Well, those days are over,” she asserted. “Under President Trump, we are defending American families and restoring their safety. If you try to enter illegally, you will be caught, you will be removed and you will never return. Follow the law and you&#8217;ll find opportunity. If you break it, you&#8217;ll find consequences. Strong borders mean a stronger America. President Trump is making America safe again.”
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Tonight, I’m announcing a nationwide and international multimillion-dollar ad campaign warning illegal aliens to leave our country NOW or face deportation with the inability to return to the US. This serves as a strong warning to criminal illegal aliens to not come to America. If… <a href="https://t.co/VcVgJYfSKR">pic.twitter.com/VcVgJYfSKR</a>
&mdash; Secretary Kristi Noem (@Sec_Noem) <a href="https://twitter.com/Sec_Noem/status/1891664961731957035?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 18, 2025</a></blockquote>
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“This series of ads will run on radio, broadcast, and digital, in multiple countries and regions in various dialects. Ads will be hyper-targeted, including through social media, text message and digital to reach illegal immigrants in the interior of the United States, as well as internationally,” The Department of Homeland Security <a href="//8CF64031-60D8-46E5-9414-43E3522B1BAA/v" target="_blank" rel="noopener">stated</a>.
In early February, as planes carried members of the Tren de Aragua gang to Guantanamo Bay, Noem <a href="//8CF64031-60D8-46E5-9414-43E3522B1BAA/v" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>, “President Donald Trump has been very clear: Guantanamo Bay will hold the worst of the worst. That starts today.”
On Monday morning, border czar Tom Homan noted on X, “In the last 24 hours the US Border Patrol has encountered a total of 229 aliens across the entire southwest border. That is down from a high of over 11,000 a day under Biden. I started as a Border Patrol Agent in 1984 and I don’t remember the numbers ever being that low. President Trump promised a secure border and he is delivering.”
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In the last 24 hours the US Border Patrol has encountered a total of 229 aliens across the entire southwest border. That is down from a high of over 11,000 a day under Biden. I started as a Border Patrol Agent in 1984 and I don’t remember the numbers ever being that low.…
&mdash; Thomas D. Homan (@RealTomHoman) <a href="https://twitter.com/RealTomHoman/status/1891483288398975326?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 17, 2025</a></blockquote>
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President Trump Signs Laken Riley Act Into Law

‘Don’t Even Think About It’: Kristi Noem Issues Harsh ‘Warning’ To Illegal Immigrants Coming To U.S.

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President Donald Trump’s border czar, Tom Homan, revealed a statistic on Presidents&#8217; Day that indicates the United States is successfully cracking down on illegal crossings in a way not seen in decades.
&#8220;In the last 24 hours the US Border Patrol has encountered a total of 229 aliens across the entire southwest border. That is down from a high of over 11,000 a day under [President Joe] Biden,&#8221; Homan <a href="https://x.com/RealTomHoman/status/1891483288398975326" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in a post to X on Monday. &#8220;I started as a Border Patrol Agent in 1984 and I don’t remember the numbers ever being that low. President Trump promised a secure border and he is delivering.&#8221;
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In the last 24 hours the US Border Patrol has encountered a total of 229 aliens across the entire southwest border. That is down from a high of over 11,000 a day under Biden. I started as a Border Patrol Agent in 1984 and I don’t remember the numbers ever being that low.…
&mdash; Thomas D. Homan (@RealTomHoman) <a href="https://twitter.com/RealTomHoman/status/1891483288398975326?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 17, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Journalists, elected officials, and others reacted on X to Homan&#8217;s post.
Fox News correspondent Bill Melugin, who has covered the immigration issue over the years, <a href="https://x.com/BillMelugin_/status/1891506905375223998" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>: &#8220;229 across the entire southern border. Just wild. I would have trouble finding any illegal aliens if I went down to the border right now.&#8221;
&#8220;These results are astounding,&#8221; <a href="https://x.com/GregAbbott_TX/status/1891544351018274925" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> Texas Republican Governor Greg Abbott. &#8220;It’s great to have a REAL Border Czar and a President who enforces immigration laws.&#8221;
&#8220;The first time I was in the RGV, I saw almost 300 illegal immigrants in a few hours in one area,&#8221; <a href="https://x.com/Julio_Rosas11/status/1891501329371017526" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> The Blaze correspondent Julio Rosas, referring to the Rio Grande Valley Sector. &#8220;Then it jumped to over 500 illegals at one time. There is a lot left to do with border security/immigration, but these numbers are a huge victory for the Trump administration.&#8221;
&#8220;For four years, Joe Biden let chaos rule at the border, ignored [GOP governors] who demanded action, and made every excuse under the sun. I’m glad we now have an administration that’s focused on protecting our country,&#8221; <a href="https://x.com/BrianKempGA/status/1891528986108272741" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> Georgia Republican Governor Brian Kemp.
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Columnist Brian Karem, who has a history of being critical of Trump, <a href="https://x.com/BrianKarem/status/1891542467645714488" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>: &#8220;Misleading. How many didn’t you encounter? You don’t know. Also if you were understaffed then of course you’d run into fewer. Also, I checked three different Border Patrol stations in Texas alone. All three reported MORE than that number in the last 24 hours.&#8221;
&#8220;The drastic decrease has as much to do with the tone of the messaging as actual policy. Migrants (rightly) believed they would be rewarded for crossing the border once Biden was elected so they rushed to do it. Now the message is that they will be deported so they aren’t bothering to come. The numbers speak for themselves,&#8221; <a href="https://x.com/AGHamilton29/status/1891495823642398801" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> AG Hamilton, a popular conservative commentary account on X. &#8220;This not only limits illegal immigration, saves a lot of taxpayer money, and protects Americans from the impacts of unvetted migration, but also saves a lot of migrants from being taken advantage of by human traffickers.&#8221;
The White House listed Homan&#8217;s announcement in an email highlighting some of Trump&#8217;s accomplishments during the first several weeks of his second administration.
&#8220;In his first month back in office, President Donald J. Trump has taken extraordinary action to usher in a new Golden Age of America – through border security, deregulation, government accountability, and leveling the playing field for American workers, to name a few,&#8221; the White House said. &#8220;The positive effects of President Trump’s policies continue to be felt across the country.&#8221;
Later on Monday, Homan posted more figures to X, these being focused on detentions by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
&#8220;Interior arrests by ICE have increased more than 137% under President Trump,&#8221; Homan <a href="https://x.com/RealTomHoman/status/1891592453897191690" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. &#8220;Arrests of aliens with criminal convictions have doubled under President Trump. The arrests of illegal alien gang members has also doubled. Our streets and neighborhoods are that much safer under President Trump. We are less than a month in and have more to do.&#8221;
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Interior arrests by ICE have increased more than 137% under President Trump. Arrests of aliens with criminal convictions have doubled under President Trump. The arrests of illegal alien gang members has also doubled. Our streets and neighborhoods are that much safer under…
&mdash; Thomas D. Homan (@RealTomHoman) <a href="https://twitter.com/RealTomHoman/status/1891592453897191690?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 17, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Trump’s Border Czar Marks Presidents’ Day With Statistic That Puts Biden Admin To Shame

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For those who don&#8217;t spend their Sunday mornings glued to the television — and their Sunday afternoons attempting to dig through a week&#8217;s worth of network and cable news media spin — The Daily Wire has compiled a short summary of what you may have missed.
As President Donald Trump rapidly approaches the end of his first month in office, Democrats and media have started to let the mask slip. As more and more of Trump&#8217;s nominees make it through the confirmation process — despite numerous Democrat attempts to throw up roadblocks — the response from both elected Democrats and media personalities reveals that the panic has truly begun to set in.
And nothing has provoked the fight-or-flight response more than billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk and his team at the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) as they have effectively &#8220;declared war on the Deep State,&#8221; systematically rooting out the waste and abuse that have kept federal agencies (and the politicians who funnel the money their way) on a taxpayer-funded gravy train.
On ABC News&#8217; &#8220;This Week,&#8221; anchor Jonathan Karl started in on the Trump administration, calling their actions thus far &#8220;breathtaking&#8221; before admitting that the president was essentially just making good on promises that he had made while on the 2024 campaign trail.
He then cut over to White House correspondent Mary Bruce — who went straight for Musk, framing the story in a way that painted the SpaceX CEO as the one in charge rather than as someone simply doing the bidding of President Trump and, by extension, the voters. That particular imagery — Musk in a leadership role with Trump taking a backseat and getting less media attention — has been used repeatedly by those attempting to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/time-cover-reveals-media-desperate-to-drive-wedge-between-trump-and-musk" target="_blank" rel="noopener">drive a wedge</a> between the president and the billionaire by denying Trump what they believe his ego needs.
&#8220;A remarkable scene in the Oval Office — Elon Musk holding court, answering questions for the first time about his efforts to dismantle the federal bureaucracy … On the chopping block this week: tens of thousands of federal jobs,&#8221; she said.
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“A remarkable scene in the Oval Office — Elon Musk holding court, answering questions for the first time about his efforts to dismantle the federal bureaucracy … On the chopping block this week: tens of thousands of federal jobs.” <a href="https://twitter.com/marykbruce?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@MaryKBruce</a> reports: <a href="https://t.co/DsfbqibTKG">https://t.co/DsfbqibTKG</a> <a href="https://t.co/Tsg7vebIES">pic.twitter.com/Tsg7vebIES</a>
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Karl then pivoted to an interview with House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY), where he raised the question of New York City Mayor Eric Adams and his recently-dropped federal corruption charges — along with his apparent willingness to cooperate with the Trump administration on illegal immigration.
Ignoring the fact that the charges were only brought against Adams by former President Joe Biden&#8217;s Justice Department *after* he had already signaled his desire to work with federal immigration authorities — prompting many to think that the charges were politically-motivated — Jeffries charged ahead, suggesting the burden was on Adams to prove the absence of corruption.
&#8220;Mayor Adams has a responsibility to convince the people of New York City … that he’s not simply taking orders from a Trump administration, a Trump Department of Justice, or Trump officials,&#8221; Jeffries claimed.
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“Mayor Adams has a responsibility to convince the people of New York City … that he’s not simply taking orders from a Trump administration, a Trump Department of Justice, or Trump officials,&quot; House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries tells <a href="https://twitter.com/jonkarl?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JonKarl</a>. <a href="https://t.co/QNYzyfKJa8">https://t.co/QNYzyfKJa8</a> <a href="https://t.co/liCCvU1PfK">pic.twitter.com/liCCvU1PfK</a>
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On CBS News&#8217; &#8220;Face the Nation,&#8221; Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) went after Attorney General Pam Bondi over the Adams case, arguing essentially that it was evidence of political corruption for the Justice Department to dismiss charges that on their face looked to have been politically motivated.
&#8220;One would expect more from the Attorney General of the United States,&#8221; Raskin, who became a household name largely because of his role in the second impeachment of President Trump immediately pivoted to bang the impeachment drum again.
Calling the move &#8220;an attack on the Department of Justice for engaging in corruption prosecutions,&#8221; he added that it &#8220;could be impeachable in a different political environment.&#8221;
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&quot;One would expect more from the attorney general of the United States,&quot; Rep. Jamie Raskin, the top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, says of AG Pam Bondi after the DOJ moved to drop its corruption charges against NYC Mayor Eric Adams.
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Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) took a similar tone on CNN&#8217;s &#8220;State of the Union,&#8221; where she claimed that Mayor Adams&#8217; willingness to protect the people of New York City from criminal illegals was actually proof positive that he had allowed President Trump and his administration to turn Adams into a &#8220;political pawn.&#8221;
She then claimed that it would be up to Republicans to show &#8220;courage&#8221; and &#8220;fortitude&#8221; by joining with Democrats in their opposition to Trump&#8217;s actions — which she claimed constituted a &#8220;major assault on the justice system.&#8221;
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Democratic <a href="https://twitter.com/SenAmyKlobuchar?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SenAmyKlobuchar</a> tells <a href="https://twitter.com/DanaBashCNN?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@DanaBashCNN</a> the Trump administration has turned NYC Mayor Eric Adams into a &quot;political pawn&quot; and says Republicans need to start showing &quot;courage&quot; and &quot;fortitude&quot; against what she calls Trump&#39;s &quot;major assault on the justice system.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/caB1S4FjrY">pic.twitter.com/caB1S4FjrY</a>
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Anchor Dana Bash also spoke with Border Czar Tom Homan, pressing him to refute the idea that there was a quid pro quo agreement between the Trump administration and Adams, given his willingness to allow federal immigration enforcement officers access to Rikers Island.
&#8220;No, I think that&#8217;s ridiculous,&#8221; Homan shot back. &#8220;I don&#8217;t think it had anything to do with it.&#8221;
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&quot;No, I think that&#39;s ridiculous&#8230; I don&#39;t think it had anything to do with it.&quot;
White House border czar Tom Homan denies allegations of a quid pro quo between New York City Mayor Eric Adams and the Trump administration, after Adams agreed to give ICE access to Rikers Island… <a href="https://t.co/tXMvcymLwg">pic.twitter.com/tXMvcymLwg</a>
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Rep. Laura Gillan (D-NY) took things a step further during the show&#8217;s weekly panel discussion, suggesting that if Adams was working with federal immigration authorities, Governor Kathy Hochul (D-NY) should step in and remove him from office.
&#8220;Adams is not above the law,&#8221; she claimed.
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New York <a href="https://twitter.com/RepLauraGillen?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RepLauraGillen</a> calls for Hochul to remove NYC Mayor: &quot;Adams is not above the law.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/NQc05xv8td">pic.twitter.com/NQc05xv8td</a>
&mdash; State of the Union (@CNNSOTU) <a href="https://twitter.com/CNNSOTU/status/1891157824962441483?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 16, 2025</a></blockquote>
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On NBC News&#8217; &#8220;Meet the Press,&#8221; the focus was on Ukraine and comments from both Vice President JD Vance and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth confirming the administration&#8217;s position on not allowing the embattled nation into the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).
Host Kristen Welker interviewed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on the Trump administration&#8217;s efforts to help bring about the end of the war Russia began, and Zelenskyy used the moment to warn there was a &#8220;high risk&#8221; that Russia — despite being at a stalemate with only Ukraine as its opposition — was likely to attack other NATO countries.
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Zelenskyy warns of ‘high risk’ Putin will invade NATO countries: Full interview <a href="https://t.co/8HNRsnSeoy">https://t.co/8HNRsnSeoy</a>
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Elon Musk Joins President Trump For Signing Executive Orders In The Oval Office

Spin Cycle: Cue The Meltdowns, And The Tiny Violins

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Border Czar Tom Homan doubled down on his call for the Department of Justice to get involved in response to Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) advising illegal aliens how to avoid federal immigration authorities.
Homan made the remarks during a Sunday interview on &#8220;State of the Union&#8221; when asked about his <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/tom-homan-contacts-federal-prosecutors-over-aoc-helping-illegal-aliens-avoid-ice">comments</a> from last week.
&#8220;Are you suggesting that she should be prosecuted?&#8221; host Dana Bash asked.
&#8220;I&#8217;m asking the Department of Justice, who are the prosecutors and decide who they prosecute and what the standards of that prosecution is,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I simply said, at what point is that impeding? Because you can call it &#8216;know your rights&#8217; all you want, we all know the bottom line is. The bottom line is how they evade law enforcement. Don&#8217;t open your door. Don&#8217;t answer questions.&#8221;
&#8220;We&#8217;re talking about people here in the country illegally with a criminal conviction who had due process, at great taxpayer expense, and were ordered deported by a federal judge, but became a fugitive,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;And we&#8217;re talking about don&#8217;t open your door to ICE, you don&#8217;t have to answer questions. I think it&#8217;s more about how they evade law enforcement not to get arrested, even though there&#8217;s a federal warrant for your arrest, how they evade that, rather than know your rights.&#8221;
&#8220;They have the right to know their rights,&#8221; he added. &#8220;The Constitution said they have the right to certain rights. But I hope to God we&#8217;re not educating people are going to be the next murder of a college student. I have said it before, if we would have had access to the man who murdered Laken Riley in New York, he would never made it to Georgia to kill a woman.&#8221;
Homan mocked Ocasio-Cortez for claiming that he was only &#8220;vaguely&#8221; familiar of America&#8217;s immigration laws.
&#8220;I have done this since 1984. I forgot more about the immigration law than AOC will ever know,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Matter of fact, at a hearing couple years ago, I had explained to her that entering the country illegally was actually a crime. So I&#8217;m not going to play that game with her. I simply made a statement. When you sit down with people who are wanted by us, criminal aliens that been ordered to be deported from the United States government and ignore that order, if you and I ignore that order, we&#8217;d be sitting in prison.&#8221;
&#8220;But they ignore their order from a federal judge, they&#8217;re hiding in a home, and she&#8217;s telling them not to open the door,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Now, I&#8217;m not saying that&#8217;s illegal. What I&#8217;m saying is, I asked the attorney general, at what point is it impeding and what point is it not impeding?&#8221;
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“I have done this since 1984. I forgot more about the immigration law than AOC will ever know.”
Trump border czar Tom Homan doubles down on his criticism after previously suggesting Rep. <a href="https://twitter.com/AOC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@AOC</a> was “going to be in trouble” for a webinar advising immigrants of their rights when… <a href="https://t.co/ebcPeKDIrd">pic.twitter.com/ebcPeKDIrd</a>
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Border Czar Homan Speaks To Media At White House

Tom Homan Doubles Down On DOJ Getting Involved After AOC Advises Illegal Aliens How To Avoid ICE

Border Czar Tom Homan pushed back over the weekend against suggestions that there was a corrupt deal between President Donald Trump and New York City Mayor Eric Adams that led to Adams allowing local law enforcement to cooperate with federal immigration officials in removing illegal aliens from the city.
Homan made the remarks during a Sunday interview with CNN&#8217;s Dana Bash on &#8220;State of the Union&#8221; when asked if federal corruption charges against Adams were dropped in-exchange for Adams&#8217; compliance with executing Trump&#8217;s immigration agenda.
&#8220;No, I think that&#8217;s ridiculous,&#8221; Homan responded. &#8220;Me and Mayor Adams met a couple months ago. I think it was probably eight, nine weeks ago we met. And we had the same discussion. And we talked about getting a presence in Rikers Island. We talked about how we can collaborate on public safety threats and finding the missing children that were &#8212; that can be found after they release the sponsors.&#8221;
&#8220;We had that a couple months ago, long before this other discussion,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;So I don&#8217;t think it had anything to do with it. Matter of fact, the meeting went very well. It was the same meeting we had a few weeks ago. The reason we had the follow-up meeting because there was no action being done.&#8221;
Homan pushed back against claims that he was unsatisfied with the previous meeting that he&#8217;d had with Adams.
&#8220;No, I didn&#8217;t come out of that meeting unsatisfied,&#8221; he said. &#8220;After several weeks, I was taken back that we hadn&#8217;t gotten the action yet about getting to Rikers Island.&#8221;
&#8220;So we rescheduled the meeting to talk about, OK, well, we talked about how — what things we need to put in place how we can make this happen,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;And that&#8217;s what the meeting Thursday was about. And we came out Thursday with a plan in how we can get in Rikers Island in the Criminal Intelligence Division, so we can understand who&#8217;s in there, who&#8217;s foreign-born in Rikers Island that&#8217;s a significant public safety threat.&#8221;
&#8220;We also talked about how we can collaborate on the missing children, many of them are going to be in New York City,&#8221; he added. &#8220;And that&#8217;s what we talked about. I really don&#8217;t think it had anything to do with whatever&#8217;s going on in Justice Department. We never talked about that. It&#8217;s kind of out of my lane.&#8221;
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&#8220;No, I think that&#8217;s ridiculous&#8230; I don&#8217;t think it had anything to do with it.&#8221;
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‘That’s Ridiculous’: Tom Homan Blasts CNN For Suggesting Corrupt Deal Between Trump, Eric Adams

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