Border czar Tom Homan dismissed criticism of the Trump administration‘s immigration actions in recent weeks, saying he and the administration “stand by our guns.”
Judge James Boasberg of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia found Trump administration officials in criminal contempt Wednesday, almost a month after he issued a ruling prohibiting deportation flights while overseeing a case involving five immigrants with active deportation orders. The Trump administration went through with the deportations, as planes were already airborne when Boasberg’s ruling came out. Flights were paused in the weeks that followed, but have now continued.
“I think we did the right thing,” Homan said on Fox News’s The Ingraham Angle. “There is a different level of due process for terrorists. So I think we stand by our guns. I think we did the right thing. And I think the attorney general of the United States agrees that we did the right thing. So, we’ll stand by that.”
Homan addressed the deportation of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, which Democratic lawmakers have said was carried out mistakenly. While Abrego Garcia had a “withholding of removal” status, Homan said his ties to the MS-13 gang trumped any status he was granted.
“The law enforcement professionals at ICE … they swear under oath that this person was MS-13, again, you have two federal judges saying it’s MS-13, I think we did the right thing,” Homan said. “As far as the notion that, well, he had a withholding order, not to remove to El Salvador. He’s just not an illegal alien anymore. He is a designated terrorist.”
DHS PUBLICLY RELEASES RESTRAINING ORDER AGAINST KILMAR ABREGO GARCIA TO SHOW ‘HISTORY OF VIOLENCE’
Abrego Garcia will remain in El Salvador’s Terrorism Confinement Center after Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele committed to keeping him.
The Department of Homeland Security has continued to combat justifications of Abrego Garcia’s return to the United States. It publicly released a restraining order that Abrego Garcia’s wife, Jennifer, filed against him to demonstrate his “history of violence.”
