Tag Archives: Tom Homan

The New York Post reports: Reopening Alcatraz — which closed in 1963 and has operated as a museum since — “should be on the table,” border czar Tom Homan told reporters outside the White House. “We need detention beds. We do contracts in a lot of states, a lot of local municipalities. I think it’s certainly an option, especially for …

Milwaukee’s Fox affiliate reports: First, it was the FBI arresting a Milwaukee County judge. Now, Governor Evers says he feels he’s been threatened and he could be next. This latest fight pits the governor against the White House, and it centers on how State of Wisconsin workers should interact with I.C.E. agents. At the White House, the border czar had …

“I stand by the fact I think we did the right thing here. We removed a public safety threat, a national security threat, a violent gang member from the United States. We have followed the Constitution. We have followed the law. I am confident that everything we’ve done is follow laws within the constitutional constructs, absolutely. “The length of due …

“He is an MS-13 gang member. Classified as a terrorist. That was removed from this country. So we got rid of a dangerous person, an El Salvadorian national, returned to the country of El Salvador to his home. We removed him from the United States, a public safety threat, exactly what should have happened. “I’m just as disgusted that any …

“Every time I read a story about this, it’s Maryland father, Maryland father. They don’t mention he’s a member of MS-13, who is a designated terrorist group, one of the most violent gangs in the world. They don’t mention that he is an MS-13 member. They don’t mention he’s an El Salvadoran citizen being held by the country of El …

Axios reports: Immigration agents are the “principal” deciders on whether a detainee is linked to a gang and should be deported immediately, border czar Tom Homan told Axios in an exclusive interview. If agents determine the answer is yes, Homan said, the Trump administration believes that detainee’s rights to due process are limited. Not so fast, the Supreme Court said …

Axios reports: The Trump administration’s pace of removing immigrants from the U.S. continues to lag behind Joe Biden’s pace last year, even as detentions have jumped under President Trump, new numbers show. The pace of removals under Trump is actually slowing compared to his first two weeks in office, despite several high-profile raids and the targeting of foreign students as part …

ABC News reports: Tom Homan, President Donald Trump’s border czar, vowed Sunday that the Trump administration would not defy court orders stemming from legal challenges over its invocation of the wartime Alien Enemies Act to help deport undocumented immigrants from the United States. Still, speaking exclusively on ABC’s “This Week,” on Sunday, Homan also said, “I don’t care what the …

Media Matters has the transcript: LAWRENCE JONES (CO-HOST): So Tom, what’s next? Because I’m getting a little worried about the manpower. These guys are — they have to be tired. You got 30 guys in a stack going on different busts every single day. You are going to run out of money. It doesn’t look like you are getting support …

Reuters reports: During his first month in office, US President Donald Trump deported 37,660 people, according to previously unpublished data from the US Department of Homeland Security. This figure is lower than the monthly average of 57,000 removals and returns recorded during the final full year of Joe Biden’s administration. A senior Trump administration official and experts noted that deportations …

The Guardian reports: People attending recent mandatory immigration check-ins or court appearances have been escorted out in federal custody after the Trump administration allegedly tricked, lied to or otherwise deceived them as part of its mass deportation campaign. Amid a blitz of immigration-related policy changes over the last few weeks, Donald Trump and his subordinates have greenlit the ability of …

The Hill reports: Trump’s “border czar” Tom Homan said Monday he asked the Department of Justice (DOJ) whether Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s (D-N.Y.) efforts to educate people about their rights while facing Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is impeding the agency’s operations. Speaking on Fox News, Homan said he finds it disturbing that “any member of Congress wants to educate people …

The Hill reports: Trump’s “border czar” Tom Homan on Sunday pushed back on the idea that prosecutors were ordered to dismiss charges against New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D) by the DOJ in exchange for access to Rikers Island. “It sounds like the DOJ dropped the case against Adams, [and in] exchange, he let you into Rikers,” CNN’s Dana …

The New York Times reports: Mayor Eric Adams of New York faced increasingly loud calls to resign Friday, one day after a fuller picture of the arrangement that led to the U.S. Justice Department seeking to drop corruption charges against him began to emerge.  And Mr. Adams himself appeared on “Fox and Friends” on Friday with President Trump’s border czar, …

Axios reports: U.S. agents arrested more than 21,000 unauthorized immigrants in November as President Biden’s term wound down — a pace the Trump administration doesn’t appear to be matching in its first month despite its crackdown, an Axios review of new data finds. Trump’s border czar, Tom Homan, says about 14,000 immigrants have been arrested in the three-plus weeks since …

The Huffington Post reports: Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) fired back at Tom Homan, President Donald Trump’s border czar, after he suggested that she could be “in trouble” for advice she is giving to immigrants if they are targeted in one of Homan’s raids. “I sent an email today to the deputy attorney general,” Homan told Laura Ingraham on Fox News …

The Associated Press reports: More than two-dozen Christian and Jewish groups representing millions of Americans — ranging from the Episcopal Church and the Union for Reform Judaism to the Mennonites and Unitarian Universalists — filed a federal court lawsuit Tuesday challenging a Trump administration move giving immigration agents more leeway to make arrests at houses of worship. The lawsuit, filed …

Agence France-Presse reports: Brazil’s government expressed outrage on Saturday after dozens of immigrants deported from the United States arrived by plane in handcuffs, calling it a “flagrant disregard” for their rights. The foreign ministry said it would demand an explanation from Washington over the “degrading treatment of passengers on the flight”. The spat comes as Latin America grapples with US …

The New Jersey Monitor reports: Immigrant officials raided a business in Newark, detaining a U.S. military veteran and multiple undocumented residents without producing a warrant, according to city officials. Newark Mayor Ras Baraka released a statement describing ICE’s actions Thursday and condemning the agency for the raid. “This egregious act is in plain violation of the Fourth Amendment of the …

Reuters reports: Donald Trump’s incoming presidential administration plans to launch a large immigration raid in Chicago the day after he takes office, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday, citing four people familiar with planning. The raid, expected to start on Tuesday, would last all week, the newspaper said, adding that US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) would send between …