'Border Czar' Tom Homan: What Scares Me Is How Many Illegal Immigrants Paid Extra Not To Register

RealClear Politics ^ | 26 Jun, 2025 | Tim Hains

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RCP's Phil Wegmann interviewed 'Border Czar' Tom Homan on Thursday's edition of the RealClearPolitics podcast about Iranians arrested by ICE this week, two million people who entered the U.S. without registering at all during the Biden administration, and what the "Big, Beautiful Bill" will do on immigration enforcement.

"It's hard to find someone who doesn't want to be found, but it’s our number one focus," Homan said. "We didn't wait for the attack in Iran, but right now we put our foot on the gas with what happened in Iran."

"We all know we had an open border for the last four years, where Border Patrol's main focus was under the direction of Mayorkas: process quickly, release quickly. So a lot of the vetting wasn't done."

"People want to say all these people are asylum seekers, they have a right to come, they have a right to claim asylum, and the right to due process," Homan said. "But here's what we need to know: over the last 10 years, if you look at immigration court data, nearly nine out of 10 people who claim asylum at our border end up with an order of removal. It’s fraudulent asylum claims."

"The issue is, we've got over two million people who crossed the border under Joe Biden, we don't know who they are, where they came from, why they're here. That's the biggest concern of mine," Homan said. "They couldn't do proper vetting because they don't have access to information from the country of Iran. However, the biggest concern is the two million plus who paid more to get away because they didn't want to be fingerprinted. They didn't want to be vetted. They didn't want to even deal with law enforcement at all. That's the biggest concern for me.

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