‘This is about selling this country out for future political power’
Border czar Tom Homan issued a warning Monday to any public official who would impede U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement from arresting illegal immigrant criminals.
Homan said defending innocent children plays a significant role in motivating him, noting that he has had to “talk to little girls as young as 9 who were raped multiple times by the cartel members” and had “everything innocent and pure” ripped from them.
“Sanctuary cities are going to stand aside and watch ICE keep their community safe, because any public official — whether you’re mayor, city councilman or governor — their number one responsibility is the protection of the communities,” Homan said during a morning briefing in the White House press room.
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“And ICE has been clear: we’re targeting public safety threats and national security threats. I can’t believe there’s any elected official, and especially a judge, that doesn’t believe we should be doing that and they should be helping us.”
“You can sit aside and watch, you can argue against all you want, you can argue against us all you want and protest all you want, but when you cross that line — I’ve said this 1,000 times — when you cross that line to [impediment] or knowingly harboring and concealing an illegal alien from ICE, you will be prosecuted, judge or not,” he added.
.@RealTomHoman: “You don’t have to support ICE’s operations. You can support sanctuary cities if that’s what you desire to do… But when you cross that line to impediment or knowingly harboring or conceding an illegal alien from ICE, you will be prosecuted. Judge or not.” pic.twitter.com/mQNK0LsPSF
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) April 28, 2025
Homan’s comments come a week after two judges were arrested for allegedly interfering with federal efforts to enforce immigration law.
On Friday, the FBI arrested Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Hannah Dugan for allegedly obstructing a criminal investigation and impeding the arrest of Eduardo Flores-Ruiz at her courthouse earlier this month.
Flores-Ruiz, a Mexican national, had been deported from the U.S. before in 2013 and is facing three misdemeanor battery charges that included allegedly punching someone more than 30 times on March 12 over a dispute about loud music.
The day before, the FBI arrested Democratic former Doña Ana County Magistrate Judge Jose “Joel” Cano and his wife, Nancy Cano, for allegedly harboring an accused illegal immigrant and member of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua in their New Mexico guesthouse. Each was slapped with two charges of evidence tampering.
The White House lined the lawn leading to the briefing room Monday morning with the mugshots and alleged crimes of 100 illegal immigrants apprehended in recent months. Many were accused of sexually assaulting children, a statistic for which Homan said he did not have a ready answer.
“I don’t know why,” he said of the child sex crimes. “It’s sick. It’s the worst crime in the world when you sexually assault a child, the most innocent of us all.”
“I’ll retire when every public safety threat, national security threat, child rapist is eradicated from this country,” he said.
During the briefing, Homan also pushed back against concerns that the U.S. government is deporting young children who are U.S. citizens with their illegal immigrant parents, noting that the parents wanted their children to go with them.
“If you choose to have a U.S. citizen child, knowing you’re in this country illegally, you put yourself in that position, you put your family in that position,” he said. “What we did is remove children with their mothers who requested their children depart with them.”
“That’s a parental decision — parenting 101. The mothers made that choice.”
Homan predicted that critics would denounce the administration’s deportations regardless of the scenario.
“I’ll tell you what,” he added, indicating to the media cameras in the back of the room. “If we didn’t do it, the story today would be ‘the Trump administration’s separating families again.'”
.@RealTomHoman explains why the Biden Administration purposely housed illegal immigrants in hotels instead of ICE detention facilities — so they’d never appear before a judge: “This is about selling this country out for future political power.” pic.twitter.com/okokwyX9jr
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) April 28, 2025
Homan suggested the Biden administration’s apparent unwillingness to enforce immigration law by giving illegal immigrants beds in luxury hotels stemmed from a cynical desire to secure perpetual power.
“This is about selling this country out for future political power,” he said.
Homan, who said the administration has deported 139,000 illegal immigrants since Trump’s inauguration, encouraged illegal immigrants to self-deport or face prosecution.
“Get your affairs in order. If you’re in the country illegally, work with ICE, go to CBP One Home app, and leave on your own,” he said.
Jon Brown is a reporter for The Christian Post. Send news tips to jon.brown@christianpost.com
