Posted on 11/11/2024 7:27:30 AM PST by RoosterRedux
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The new cabinet is starting to take shape because overnight, while you were sleeping, he tapped Tom Homan to be his border czar.
Rachel: Trump saying, "There is nobody better at policing or controlling our borders. Likewise, Tom Homan will be in charge of all the deportations of illegal aliens back to their country of origin."
Brian: He worked to come up with the job description. Good for you, bad for us; we lose you as a contributor. What went into the decision and position?
Tom Homan: I have been on this network for four years, complaining about what this administration did to this border. I’ve been yelling and screaming about it, telling what they need to do to fix it. So when the president asked me, "Would you come back and fix it?"—of course, I would. I’d be a hypocrite if I didn’t. I’m honored the president asked me to come back and help solve this national security crisis. So I’m looking forward to it.
Look, I love Fox. All the family there. But I think the calling is clear. I have got to go back and help. Every morning I get up, every morning I'm pissed off about what this administration did to unsecure this border. I’m going to go back and fix it.
Lawrence: Let’s talk about the job. You’re not an amateur; you’ve been doing this for years. You were a beat cop. You worked the border before, went over to ICE. You’ve done it all. What does the process look like? Because I think some people get the impression that you’re shooting from your hip, but you know what you’re doing here, right?
Tom Homan: I know exactly what I’m doing. This is the second time I came out of retirement for this president, because it matters. Look, I was a border patrol agent. I wore the uniform. I’m proud that I wore the uniform. And I was an ICE agent. I was the first ICE director who came up through the ranks. The 20,000 men and women who worked for me—I was one of them. I know the border. And I know there are a lot of great patriots.
I shut my phone off Friday night because I couldn’t handle the phone calls, the texts, and emails from thousands of ICE agents and border patrol agents excited about the rumor I’m coming back. More importantly than that, thousands of retired agents, retired border patrol agents, retired military who want to come in and volunteer to help this president secure the border and do this deportation operation. I’ve been off the grid for three days because I couldn’t handle all the phone calls plus all the death threats rolling in. My family is not at home right now because that is starting—something we’re going to deal with. They’re not going to bully me away and shut me up or make me go away. This is the biggest national security vulnerability this nation has seen since 9/11, and we have to fix it.
Steve: It’s one of the reasons Kamala Harris lost and Donald Trump won. So, Tom, you just mentioned deportations. I know during the last Trump administration, when you were there, they did have large-scale worksite raids where they’d go into a place and find hundreds of people in the country illegally. I know on 60 Minutes a couple weeks ago you said those would continue under Donald Trump and the next administration. What do you have planned? I know you don’t want to give away the whole game plan, but any other category of deportations of interest?
Tom Homan: As the president said on stage many times, which I agree with 100 percent: same as the first administration, a hell of a lot more of them. Ten million illegally entered the country under the Biden administration, even though it’s a violation of federal law. I’ve been clear, and President Trump has been clear. Public safety threats and national security threats will be the priority—they have to be. They pose the most danger to this country. We will prioritize those groups, those who have final deportation orders. Those who have had due process at great taxpayer expense and a federal judge has said, "You must go home." They didn’t. They became a fugitive.
Worksite operations have to happen, and here’s why: where do we find most victims of trafficking and forced labor? Work sites. The Biden administration shut down worksite enforcement. If we care about human trafficking and sex trafficking, then they shouldn’t have shut down enforcement, which is one of the main areas where we find victims of this.
I want to add another priority. This administration has lost over 300,000 children who were smuggled into this country by criminal cartels. They can’t find them. That’s another priority. We need to save these children because some of them are in forced labor, some in sex trafficking, and some are living in hell. We want to save these children and get them back with their families.
Rachel: Tom, congratulations to us. I’m so glad for border patrol—that morale is being lifted. They’ve been beaten down by the policies of this last administration. I’m really encouraged by what you’re saying. The toughest part of your job isn’t the deportation; it’s dealing with the propaganda from the other side, saying that what you’re doing is not compassionate or humanitarian. What do you plan to do? I’m glad you mentioned the 300,000 missing children, but how are you going to deal with those kinds of attacks?
Tom Homan: Frankly, I don’t care what people think about me, especially on the left. When you have a crisis this big that overwhelms the border patrol, the majority are no longer in control. They’re changing diapers, buying baby formula, doing hospital and airport runs. When you take border patrol off the border for a humanitarian crisis, that’s when fentanyl comes across, killing Americans. That’s when known suspected terrorists cross into this country.
There’s a record number on the watch list who’ve been arrested on the southern border. With over 2,348 got-aways, how many of them came into our country with intentions of terror? I don’t care about people’s opinions on illegal immigration. When you create a crisis this big, all these other things happen. That’s why you have to secure the border. I don’t care if you’re Republican, Democrat, or Independent—border security is national security. We should all be on the same side of that. I’ve been saying this for the last couple of years, and the director of the FBI agrees with me. He says the southwest border is the biggest national security vulnerability this nation has ever seen. We have to secure the border.
As far as those pushing back on deportations, what’s the alternative? You have the right to claim asylum, to see a judge—we make that happen. But if, at the end of due process, the judge says you must go home, then we have to enforce that. If we’re not, what are we doing? If the judge’s order doesn’t mean anything, shut down immigration court. Due process doesn’t mean squat if the final decision of the court isn’t carried out. If we let everyone stay, we’ll never fix the southern border.
Brian: Go get them, Tom Homan. Appreciate it.
Steve: People all across America are clapping watching him say that.
Lawrence: There’s a transition going on at the Department of Homeland Security, and they need to get security to his house immediately. I’m disheartened to hear his family is under death threats. Everyone knows terrorists and enemies of this country recognize him as a real threat.
I used the exact title from Fox just because dems da rules. Feel free to change it if you see fit.
Thx, Rooster.
I assume Trump is choosing to appoint him and others as “Czars” in order to put them on the playing field immediately and avoid the Senate taking 2 years to approve??
I remember Obama ran his government with Czars.
Anyone comment to add insight?
I hope he makes them clean up their garbage and sewage and take it back home with them. They have totally demolished the area along the Rio Grande. Shiddy diapers, old clothes, beer bottles and other crap is scattered all over the place.
Makes sense.
If he doesn’t do his job, President Trump will fire him.
PERFECT PICK!!!
He seems just the man for the job
So we are international now? We really do have Czars? And the left will scream about this because what? Why? Kamala was just a pretend Czar? Is that a gender now too?
That, plus he won’t be burdened with having to run a massive bureaucracy filled with woke deep staters working from home who will resist everything. Can you imagine the meetings, phone calls, and paperwork?
This man fights. We need him fighting not pushing paper. More than anyone, he can save the country in the short-term.
As far as those pushing back on deportations, what’s the alternative? You have the right to claim asylum, to see a judge—we make that happen. But if, at the end of due process, the judge says you must go home, then we have to enforce that. If we’re not, what are we doing? If the judge’s order doesn’t mean anything, shut down immigration court. Due process doesn’t mean squat if the final decision of the court isn’t carried out. If we let everyone stay, we’ll never fix the southern border.
That’s good Tom because the rest of us are pissed off with you
Glad to see he is just as pissed as the American people.
I remember first seeing that phrase during Reagan’s administration, with “drug czar.”
Maybe the media started that? Not sure.
Democrats love their slave labor.
I am ignorant on the administrative law of all of this but it seems that an acting secretary of ..... or an acting director of ..... might have more teeth to act than a czar. Just not sure.
Yes, obama had lots of czars that were never approved by congress, so why not go that way if you can to get the ball rolling?
One of my fellow retirees told me the Trump Team is reaching out to him and others to come back and rebuild the Border Patrol. If my friend is any indication of the caliber of the others they are reaching out to, we are looking at an extremely aggressive and effective Border Patrol.
“I shut my phone off Friday night because I couldn’t handle the phone calls, the texts, and emails from thousands of ICE agents and border patrol agents excited about the rumor I’m coming back. More importantly than that, thousands of retired agents, retired border patrol agents, retired military who want to come in and volunteer to help this president secure the border and do this deportation operation. “
Boy this will help.
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