Following the election, President Donald Trump announced that former ICE Director Tom Homan would be the nation’s new “Border Czar.”
Homan, a steadfast supporter of strong border policies and seasoned law enforcement leader, will be tasked with overseeing all aspects of U.S. border security, extending beyond the southern and northern land borders to include maritime and aviation domains.
Homan will lead all deportation efforts, enforcing strict policies to remove illegal aliens from the country.
President Trump’s announcement read:
“I am pleased to announce that the Former ICE Director, and stalwart on Border Control, Tom Homan, will be joining the Trump Administration, in charge of our Nation’s Borders (“The Border Czar”), including, but not limited to, the Southern Border, the Northern Border, all Maritime, and Aviation Security. I’ve known Tom for a long time, and there is nobody better at policing and controlling our Borders. Likewise, Tom Homan will be in charge of all Deportation of Illegal Aliens back to their Country of Origin. Congratulations to Tom. I have no doubt he will do a fantastic, and long awaited for, job.”
Homan joined Donald Trump, Jr.’s podcast, Triggered, to discuss his plans. He made it clear the Trump administration will treat cartels like ISIS and ‘wipe them off the face of the earth.”
Homan said, “But the cartels are like a Fortune 500 company. The Sinaloa Cartels, they’re in over 40 countries on the globe. Not only are they smuggling record amounts of narcotics into the United States, they are now in every major city of the United States, taking over the distribution within the United States.”
“And at the RNC, during my speech at the RNC, I echoed what President Trump has told me that he will designate them terrorist organizations because they have killed more… the criminal cartels in Mexico have killed more Americans than every terrorist organization in the world combined.”
“Take the 911, times that by 100. President Trump says he’s going to designate them a terrorist organization, wipe them off the face of the earth because Mexico is not going to do it. Mexico has been dealing with this for 30 years.”
“I hate to say it, but it’s just a fact. Much of the Mexican military, much of the Mexican government, they’re corrupt. We know that. That’s why even when I was Ice Director, I vetted units, and we vet these guys ourselves that we work with down there, we didn’t even tell them everything.”
“Not every cop and soldier is corrupt. I’m not saying that. I’m sure soldiers and police officers down there doing it for the right reason, but there’s a lot of corruption there. The cartels, if you’re a police officer and you’re making $36 a week, and the cartel comes and gives you $100,000 to let something happen, they’re going to take it. Many of them will.”
“It’s going to take US Special Operations, US intelligence, to track these guys down, follow the money, and just…”
“Same thing President Trump did to ISIS, in the caliphate. He can do it. He did that terrorist organization. He can do the criminal cartels, but it’s going to take United States lead to get it done.”
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