Border Czar Tom Homan on Wednesday responded to a new biased Wall Street Journal poll that claims 51% say the Trump Administration has gone “too far” with deportations and that 53% say the administration is “crossing the line.”
However, the poll misrepresents the Trump Administration’s efforts, asking if people think “the Trump Administration is crossing the line by deporting people without proof they are here illegally, ignoring the courts when they tell them to stop, and denying people a hearing.”
51% say “Trump’s efforts to deport illegal immigrants have gone too far,” while 23% say “Not far enough” and 24% say “about right.”
The poll also finds that 62% of respondents support deporting illegal aliens.
Homan on Tuesday blamed the media’s “false” reporting for the change in public opinion, pointing to reports that “less than 1% of deportees had murder convictions” or claims that most ICE detainees are not criminals.
“Really? That’s the level set now? Being in the country legally isn’t enough?” he said of reports that claim the aliens are not murderers.
An overwhelming majority of those arrested by ICE are also convicted criminals. “70% of everybody we arrested have a criminal history, and I told you, the other 30% are national security threats,” including designated foreign terrorist cartel members, he said.
Homan further tore into the leftist media and the Democrats for protesting ICE and labeling agents with smears like “racist” because they’re enforcing the laws that Congress enacted.
WATCH:
Reporter: There’s polling that suggests that there are people in the public that think that you’ve gone too far with immigration—
Homan: Why is that? I just talked about it. It’s because of false media. I read a story the other day, less than 1% of ICE deportations are murderers. Really? That’s the level set now? Being in the country legally isn’t enough? There’s nothing in the Immigration Nationality Act that says you gotta commit yet another crime to be deportable. But the false media stories, like I just said, “most people in ICE detention aren’t criminals,” wrong! A majority is criminal. I see the numbers every day. But now the media is saying, well, they’re not criminal enough; they just got a DUI. 10,000 people a year die from DUI. That’s a public safety threat, in my opinion. As a cop from New York, I’ve seen the tragedies of DUI. So, now the media’s saying, they’re not criminal enough. Look, the bottom line is—I looked at numbers— 70% of everybody we arrested have a criminal history, and I told you, the other 30% are national security threats. Most national security threats don’t have a criminal history. They’re laying low to wait until they do their dirty deed.
Gang members, a lot of gang members don’t have a criminal history, and the others, the non criminals, everybody arrested is in the country illegally. That’s not okay. It’s not okay to be in this country illegally. It’s not okay to enter this country illegally. It’s a crime. And again, that’s the message we send, and I’ve done this for 40 years— the message we send, if you’re just in the country illegally, don’t worry about it. We’re not looking for you. You think you’re ever going to solve the problem when people around this world want to come to the greatest nation on Earth, and they realize I can the border illegally, it’s a crime, but as long as I don’t commit another crime, no one’s looking for me? We can’t do that. And while we’re while we’re arguing about this, there are millions of people standing in line, taking their test, doing a background investigation, paying their fees, sitting in the back seat, while millions of people under the Biden administration cheated the system.
All these asylum seekers, what you need to know based on immigration court data, nearly nine out of 10 of those so-called asylum seekers end up with an order of removal. They’re asylum seekers. They’re also asylum cheaters because you have thousands of people in this world that really do need our protection because they really are true asylum seekers that are escaping fear and persecution from their home government because of race, religion, political affiliation— they’re sitting in the back seat while millions of asylum cheaters cross the border under Joe Biden. This President was different. Again, what have we done? The most secure border in the history of this nation, ICE has arrested more criminal threats and national security threats in this time frame, three times as many as Joe Biden, did. This administration— look every day I wake up, it’s amazing the numbers we have. A lot of this polling that’s going is because of false media. We’ve deported US citizens? Name one US citizen we deported! We don’t deport US citizens. They’re talking about children of people we deport. If you’re in this country illegally and you know you’re in this country illegally, you have an order of removal, but rather than leaving, you become a fugitive and choose to have a US citizen child? That doesn’t make you immune from our laws. That was a decision on your part. So, when we remove that person, it’s parenting one on one. What do you want to do? You want to take the child with you, or do you want to leave them here with another relative or another spouse? They put themselves in the position, not us. So it’s a false media that’s pushing the poll.
Reporter: Is there political pressure to that about for the midterms, and is there concern that it could hurt the Administration?
Homan: I’m not a politician. I’m a border guy, and we’re enforcing the laws. We’re not making this up. ICE is enforcing the laws enacted by Congress. See all these people protesting ICE? Why aren’t they protesting the Hill. If they don’t like what ICE is doing, protest the people who wrote the bill. I see members of Congress comparing us to racists and members of terrorist organizations. If we’re a terrorist for enforcing immigration law, what does that make them? They wrote the law. We’re enforcing laws enacted by Congress, and we’re going to do it with no apologies, but we’re going to do exactly what the President Trump has promised the American people to do. The reason why President Trump was elected president is because people believe in a secure border, and people believe that we should remove public safety threats and national security threats in this country. That’s what we do every single day.
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