Former ICE Director Tom Homan delivers an update on the deportation of illegal immigrants across the southern border. Homan is a hero in the eyes of the American people. He is tasked with overseeing the most important political plank of President Trump's campaign, deporting illegal immigrants.
00:00:56.000The Charlie Kirk Show is proudly sponsored by Preserve Gold, the leading gold and silver experts and the only precious metals company I recommend to my family, friends, and viewers.
00:01:09.000But without further ado, Tom Homan, the great Tom Homan.
00:01:13.000I think that's the biggest round of applause we've gotten for any of these guys so far.
00:01:59.000You are tasked with overseeing probably the most important political plank of President Trump's 2024 election, I would say, in his campaign.
00:02:09.000And that would be deportations, making sure the bad guys get removed from our country.
00:02:14.000and you have a heck of a job dealing with a lot of these blue states, blue cities, blue counties, blue mayors.
00:02:21.000Why don't you just give us an update of how the task is unfolding?
00:02:25.000So when President Trump, I was the first guy he called, when he called me, and I agree to come back, which my wife's still pissed off about.
00:02:38.000How many times are you going to unretire?
00:02:40.000Anyways, you're like Michael Jordan of Deporters.
00:02:44.000He asked me, he said, look, I want you to oversee three things.
00:03:44.000They're standing in that line every day.
00:03:46.000God bless each and every Border Patrol agent.
00:03:48.000I love them each and every one of them.
00:03:54.000And none of this wouldn't happen unless we had President Trump in the overall office, who happens to be the greatest president in my lifetime.
00:04:43.000More people have been deported since he's been in office in less than one year than any time in history of this nation.
00:04:52.000The biggest year we ever had was FY12.
00:04:54.000FY12, there was 409,000 people removed.
00:04:58.000We're at over 650,000, and we're not even done yet.
00:05:02.000So the president's delivering on record deportation, despite the sanctuary cities, despite the protesters, despite the hate, the men and women of ICE are getting this done at an amazing rate.
00:05:15.000The children, that was the toughest out of all three.
00:06:02.000i'm happy to report as of this week the trump administration has found 129 000 these are 100 129 000 children that the last administration wasn't even looking for And look, many of them were safe with their families just hiding out.
00:06:49.000And, you know, something that a lot of people talk a lot about, and I think it's a good thing to talk about because people don't, you know, they want mass deportations and they want it yesterday, right?
00:06:59.000They want all 20 million or whatever the number is.
00:07:05.000I would take 100 million people getting the traffic would be amazing.
00:07:11.000So, but, Tom, you know, we have a net flow of people out of the country.
00:07:19.000And I think back to the Eisenhower administration, the last real deportation effort that has been done in this country.
00:07:27.000And there is this ratio of if you deport one person, chances are you're going to get X number of deportations.
00:07:34.000That ratio was about 1 to 10 in Eisenhower.
00:07:37.000So we're actually getting a lot more people out of this country.
00:07:39.000What is the total number we think have left either of their own accord and they've taken the deal that you guys are offering with plane tickets and a stipend?
00:07:46.000What do we think that number is at right now?
00:08:09.000We knew if we put 1,000 ICE teams on the streets and show there are consequences for this country illegally.
00:08:15.000And you heard from day one, there's a lot of media out there.
00:08:18.000A home only wants criminals and public safety threats.
00:08:21.000Look, I said in day one, we are going to prioritize the public safety threats and national security threats because they pose the most danger.
00:08:27.000But if you're in the country legally, you're not off the table.
00:09:12.000If you're not formally deported, you may leave yourself an avenue in the future to come and visit a visa, work visa, or maybe have a relative that can petition from you.
00:09:21.000But if we have to formally find you and deport you, you're not coming back.
00:09:24.000So I think those two things are a game changer for people.
00:09:27.000So look, secure border because of President Trump, because of men and women aboard to wear the green uniform.
00:09:34.000But a lot of it has to do with ICE doing every day in the country.
00:09:37.000That was always one of the most infuriating things with the border rhetoric, where they'd say, oh, you can't secure the border because there's 10,000 people there, and your only option would be to shoot all of them.
00:09:47.000And really, you're revealing what the truth is, which is even a little bit of toughness in showing that we're a real country and the demand melts away.
00:09:56.000The people arriving endlessly, they just melt away.
00:09:59.000The problem sort of solves itself eventually.
00:11:15.000These are people who had due process at great taxpayer expense, were already removed by a federal judge and said, I'm not going to become a fugitive.
00:11:23.000You damn right we're looking for them.
00:11:24.000And we find that we're executing the removal.
00:11:27.000So, and are there people they're arresting that are not a public safety threat, not a national security threat, not a fugitive?
00:12:00.000I think if you think the numbers are good now, wait till we surge on worksite enforcement and wait till these 10,000 new officers are on the street.
00:12:07.000You think the numbers are good this year?
00:12:18.000Candles were lit on Bondi Beach by families, by children, by people of faith to celebrate a festival of light, a festival from Bible times, one that Jesus himself celebrated.
00:12:28.000People gathered with hope, seeking unity and comfort in tradition.
00:12:32.000But instead of light, there was darkness, violence, fear, hatred showing itself at a time meant for prayer and rejoicing.
00:12:40.000Times like this remind us that even with the ceasefire in Israel, Jewish people are being targeted simply because of their faith.
00:12:47.000And times like this remind us why the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews exists to stand in the gap, providing safety and security to God's people.
00:12:56.000The fellowship brings together Christians and Jews to be a light to suffering Jews in Israel, the former Soviet Union, or wherever the needs are greatest.
00:13:04.000Together, we can make a real difference in the lives of those who need hope the most.
00:13:08.000Your gift today will help provide the security that God's people so desperately need.
00:13:30.000I've heard you say, listen, you know, to these Blue City mayors, we understand you don't like this, but just don't get in our way.
00:13:37.000If you impede immigration enforcement, that's a crime.
00:13:41.000And it always strikes me when you say that line that impede is doing a whole lot of work in that sentence because I look at what they're doing, whether it's, you know, telling folks that you're coming or they're turning a blind eye to these citizen networks that are monitoring where ICE vehicles are at.
00:14:01.000I mean, how is all of that not illegal?
00:14:04.000How come we can't arrest so many of these jerks that are trying to get in your guys's way?
00:14:11.000And Attorney General Pam Bondi and her staff are looking at that.
00:14:15.000I can tell you this: 18 USC 111 impeding interference with an ICE officer.
00:14:21.000We got historic number of prosecutions.
00:14:24.000So for the protesters out there that want to cross that line and be a criminal, you spit on an ICE officer, you put a hand on an ICE officer, you interfere with the officer's arrest, you're going to jail.
00:15:41.000If you got Holman County jail, and we know for a fact, based on fingerprint, biometrics, by graphical data, we have an illegal in that jail right now.
00:15:53.000We know he's in that jail because we just got a printout saying he's in that jail.
00:15:57.000We have a warrant for his arrest, or he's been deported before, which means we can prosecute him for a felony.
00:16:02.000If we're not allowed in that facility, if we're not allowed to access that facility, is that not harboring concealing?
00:16:37.000But what we're going to do, we're going to flood the zone.
00:16:40.000If you don't give us access to the jail, look, back in my day, one agent can arrest one illegal alien in a county jail.
00:16:49.000It's safer for the alien, it's much safer for the agent, and it's safer for the community, right?
00:16:53.000Well, if you're going to knowingly release a public safety threat in the community, that means we ought to send a whole team now to arrest him on his surface.
00:17:01.000He has access to who knows what weapons.
00:17:04.000So, what we're going to do, since we know sanctuary cities are a problem, since we know sanctuary cities are knowingly releasing criminal public safety threats to the community, what are we going to do?
00:17:15.000We're going to send more officers to sanctuary cities and flood the zone.
00:17:18.000So, my message to sanctuary cities is: you know, you're going to get exactly what you don't want.
00:17:23.000You're going to get more agents in your communities and you're going to get more collateral arrests.
00:17:26.000Because when we find that bad guy, many times they're with others.
00:17:30.000If they're in the country lately, they're coming too.
00:17:32.000I want to give you guys a shout-out because you've mentioned there's going to be consequences for this.
00:17:38.000And I think with Amphest going on, people didn't hear about this.
00:17:41.000But they may remember back in April, there was this Milwaukee County judge, Hannah Duggan, and there was an illegal immigrant in her court for battery, had committed a violent crime, and she hindered ICE from being able to arrest him, said, I'm not going to allow you into my chambers, tried to shelter him, I think, let him out through a back door.
00:18:32.000Any mayor or governor that wants to push back on ICE and say, we don't want you in our neighborhoods, their number one responsibility is the safety and security of their communities.
00:18:42.000ICE has taken a lot of public safety threats out of your community.
00:18:45.000You all be thanking us, not protesting us, not pushing back against us.
00:19:39.000Well, again, I go back to this word impede.
00:19:41.000These guys are impeding the heck out of you guys, and you know it.
00:19:44.000And I'm just going to leave it here because you've answered the question, but I hope there's more we can do legally to get these guys to stop impeding the good work that you guys are doing because it's so important.
00:19:54.000A lot of these mayors need to go see jail cells as far as I'm concerned.
00:20:28.000Little do they know that would actually galvanize support and more people would show up for them.
00:20:33.000But if we have a good outcome in these midterms, and even if we don't, frankly, because we still have the federal branch, but there is going to, I believe that you guys are going to be even more emboldened.
00:20:43.000There's going to be even more runway for you guys to do some really important things.
00:23:21.000And it's not because, you know, because when you hire 10,000 more people, look, right now, when all this started, we had 5,000, just under 5,000 deportation officers.
00:28:54.000Fentanyl is a super amazingly powerful weapon.
00:28:56.000It should be classified as a weapon, and people should think about it that way.
00:28:59.000My question to you, kind of related, is when you're in front of the MSM, what you should ask them is, how is it that it's not racist to not deport people who are stealing jobs from minorities?
00:29:14.000You need to ask them that question and say, you're the ones, you're the media, you're the ones who say you're defending the people's interests.
00:29:21.000Tell me how it's not racist to not deport the people who are stealing jobs from minorities.
00:29:27.000That's what I think you should ask them.
00:29:28.000Yeah, well, look, that's a great point.
00:29:41.000But what's happened under the Biden administration, millions of people came to the border and claimed asylum, which they weren't qualified to claim.
00:29:48.000That's why, based on immigration court data, nearly nine out of ten people who claim asylum at the border end up with an order removal.
00:29:57.000Because they don't qualify for asylum.
00:29:59.000They're not escaping fear and persecution from their home government because of race, religion, political affiliation.
00:30:05.000They're coming here for a better life.
00:30:06.000And I get that, but that's not asylum.
00:30:08.000So while they're making these frauds and asylum claims or clogging up the courts back to seven years, there are actually thousands of people in the world that really are escaping fear and persecution that needs our help.
00:30:20.000And I'll say another thing about illegal immigration.
00:30:23.000Every illegal immigrant across the board legally is a cheater because there are millions of people standing in line, taking their tests, paying their fees, getting vetted, doing a background investigation to be part of the greatest nation on earth.
00:31:12.000So our state, between the state and city government, is very left-leaning, sanctuary city, and they give drivers licenses regardless of immigration status.
00:31:25.000I'm curious what you're doing to help make sure those people don't get on the voter rolls.
00:31:33.000That's an issue dealing with right now.
00:31:35.000We're prioritizing that across the country.
00:31:42.000I mean, it's look, it's a great city, but your governor, mayor, I mean, your mayor still testified in front of Congress under oath that I was lying about the criminal threat of illegal aliens in Boston.
00:31:53.000Look at the numbers of the criminals we took off the street of Boston.
00:32:39.000Look, I got, look, and I want to say something.
00:32:42.000You know, I took a hell of a pay cut to come back.
00:32:45.000You know, the death threats against me and my family, apart from my wife, for a long time, amazing.
00:32:54.000When I got the call, all kidding aside, she told me you need to do it.
00:33:00.000Because she saw the last four years, she got angry too.
00:33:03.000I think you all got angry the last four years.
00:33:05.000So even though she knew, okay, here comes the protests at the house again, I had a thousand people protest at one of the homes at my vacation home where my wife was, but she's putting up with it because she understands what we're doing right now is saving lives.
00:33:23.000You know, by having illegal immigration down 94%, think about this.
00:33:27.000There's been studies done that 31% of women that make that journey through the cartels get sexually assaulted.
00:35:11.000I cannot tell you how infuriating it is for us on the streets knowing that I got a guy sitting in front of me, Trendagua.
00:35:22.000He knows what after I run him and then sits there and laughs at me.
00:35:27.000Had to just process him, and because of the state laws in Illinois, he got to walk back out on the streets.
00:35:33.000I never saw him again because we have catch and release for crimes now in Illinois.
00:35:40.000What advice can one can you give us to the boots on the ground who want to take these guys and do something with them, knowing that they're trend agua, for example?
00:35:53.000And two, is there a way that ICE can actually come up with an anonymous tip line so we can actually call you guys to say, hey, my state won't let me arrest this guy, but I got a trend agua guy sitting in my car right now, and my boss wants me to walk him out the door.
00:36:38.000Make a phone, create a liaison with ICE there in Chicago, make a phone call, help us out.
00:36:44.000Look, I said this before law enforcement across the country, the men and women on the front line, the men working on the streets, they support 100% what we're doing.
00:37:59.000Actually, you know, Rochester PD up my home state in New York, you know, some of those officers got in trouble for responding to assistance from ICE.
00:38:49.000We're looking for Somalians that weren't vetted properly.
00:38:52.000We're going to be re-vetted if we are not satisfied with the vetting process and we think there's an issue with either public safety or national security.
00:40:26.000Put the right people in the offices who are telling law enforcement, who are spreading lies about the ICE and Borgho, vote.
00:40:34.000We need to vote from the ground up and take back this country and support law enforcement.
00:40:40.000We're living in a world right now where law enforcement, all of a sudden, they're the bad guys, and the ones that broke the law are the victims.
00:40:49.000President Trump's going to turn that around.
00:40:52.000When he says he's going to make America great again, he's going to make America safe again.
00:40:55.000He's going to make America healthy again.