Border Czar Tom Homan holds a press gaggle at the White House.
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00:00When we're going to do something?
00:03Yeah, come to the microphone, please, sir.
00:05Step right up there.
00:06We got a sign.
00:06Mr. Holman, does this...
00:08Roosevelt Hotel is not...
00:09It's on the table, believe it or not.
00:13I'm certainly not going to forecast when we're going to do an operation on anything.
00:17Thank you, Mr. Holman.
00:17You're the immigration expert here.
00:19The president is now floating this idea of sending American prisoners to a prison in El Salvador.
00:24Do you believe that that would be legal?
00:26You know, someone mentioned that to me this morning.
00:28I haven't yet talked to the president.
00:29I just got back in town yesterday.
00:31I haven't had that conversation, what that conversation was about, where it come from.
00:34So I'm not going to comment on that until I speak to the president directly.
00:37But do you know if the top of your head is that legal?
00:39I mean, you have obviously worked under President Obama, now under President Trump.
00:44Do you believe it would be legal to send American prisoners to a prison?
00:46I don't know.
00:47Again, I didn't see it.
00:48I didn't hear it.
00:49I said what I was mentioning this morning.
00:54Again, I don't know the context of the question was.
00:57I don't know the context of what he meant by response.
01:00I'd be opining on something I really don't have the information on.
01:04I'll get briefed on it, and I'll respond to you later about it.
01:06But I'm just unfamiliar with it.
01:07Mr. Holman, does the administration expect that those migrants that have been sent to that prison in El Salvador will remain there?
01:14You mean the terrorists that were removed?
01:16Will they remain in that prison and not stop over the rest of their lives?
01:20Well, this administration will obey court orders, unlike the last administration.
01:25But if you ask me if I'm in favor of returning terrorists in the United States that are gang members, that have murdered and raped young women in this country, no, I'm not in favor of that at all.
01:34Mr. Holman, you're up for...
01:36Mr. Holman, you're up for apprehension by 95 percent since last March.
01:39Mr. Holman, can you describe maybe some of the success behind these numbers?
01:41Mr. Holman, because I worked for the greatest president of my lifetime, Donald Trump.
01:46Trump 45 is successful, unprecedented.
01:48And we're even doing better this time.
01:50President Trump, I give him all the credit because he put executive actions in place day one.
01:56He re-implemented the policies that we proved were effective.
01:59Right now, as we speak today, because of President Trump, the men and women of ICE and the men and women of Border Patrol who stand on that line every day.
02:07Today, we have the most secure border in the history of this nation.
02:11No one can argue.
02:12The data is clear now.
02:13I started in 1984.
02:14I've never seen the numbers this low.
02:16So, again, the most secure border in the history of this nation, President Trump was able to do that in a matter of weeks.
02:23Something that the Biden administration didn't do in four years.
02:25Either it wouldn't or couldn't.
02:26But we proved it didn't need legislation, didn't need all this other stuff that the last administration talked about.
02:32We needed a strong president who took America first and cared about American safety and securing that border.
02:38Securing the border at this level means we have a lot stronger national security because of the border.
02:43There are laws on the books that make it a criminal offense to shield or harbor illegal immigrants like the sanctuary state city leaders of Mendoza.
02:53Do you think they should be prosecuted with the bullets that have won possibly put in prison?
02:58Absolutely.
03:01And hold tight on that one because it's coming.
03:04It's coming.
03:05I've been clearing that since day one.
03:07The sanctuary city can sit by and watch their communities get ravaged by illegal aliens.
03:12They can watch young women get raped and murdered.
03:15Trump administration is not going to stand for that.
03:17So, look, they can stand by and watch.
03:19And the Trump administration will secure their communities.
03:21The Trump administration will drive down illegal and crime in this country.
03:24If they don't do it, we'll do it for them.
03:28But they can sit aside and watch, but they can't cross that line.
03:32When they cross the line of harboring and concealing, that's a felony.
03:35And we've got Pam Bondi now who won't hesitate to take action.
03:39They can't impede in our enforcement efforts to make this country safe again.
03:42That's a felony.
03:44So President Trump's got his cabinet in place now.
03:48We've got a strong AG.
03:49We've got a strong Secretary of Homeland Security.
03:52We've got a great group here.
03:54We've got, you know, Steve Miller, one of the most brilliant men I've ever worked with
03:58when it comes to border security and interior enforcement.
04:00You're going to see a lot of things happen in the next few months that people should expect.
04:04Many don't.
04:05But watch what comes in their future.
04:07Mr. Holman, you've got Democrats that are heading down to El Salvador.
04:09What's your message to them?
04:14We're not going to change anything.
04:15We're going to remove terrorists in this country.
04:17They're where they should be.
04:18And then we're going to knock it out.
04:19What they all be doing, they all be in sanctuary cities in this country,
04:22taking action against the Maryland father, the Maryland illegal animal,
04:29not a father, Maryland illegal animal was arrested in the country illegally,
04:34arrested for murder and released to the public.
04:37And it took ice to go find it.
04:39If the Democrats are supposed to spend some time in Boston and in Los Angeles and Portland and Maryland,
04:48they go to sanctuary cities.
04:50I don't care what party you're affiliated with, Republican, Democrat, Independent,
04:54we all should want a secure community.
04:56We all should want public safety to be number one under agenda.
04:59I can't believe there's any Democrat politician who does not want public safety threats out of the community.
05:06There are no more responsibilities for protecting the community.
05:09Would they rather go to El Salvador and fix the problem we just talked about in Maryland,
05:13fix the problem of Boston, fix the problem that just happened in Washington state?
05:16Two illegal errands, tortured a woman, left her for dead by drilling on her to give her her money,
05:23access to ATM stuff, but they're going to go to El Salvador.
05:27Makes zero sense, and that just shows how out of touch of reality the Democratic Party is.
05:30Mr. Holman, the deadline for real ideas coming up next month.