Speaking at an event with Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) at New College in Florida on Thursday, Border Czar Tom Homan compared the border policies of President Trump with former President Biden.
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00:00Zahra, give us an update on where we are on the wall.
00:10First of all, Governor, give me flashbacks.
00:12I woke up pissed off for four years under the Biden administration.
00:18I'm getting flashbacks.
00:21I love my job now.
00:24I worked for the greatest president of my lifetime, Donald Trump.
00:28Where are we at?
00:31In four weeks, we arrested more criminal aliens in the interior of the United States than
00:35Joe Biden did in a year, first of all.
00:38Second of all, the border numbers right now are down 96 percent.
00:42Ninety-six percent decline in six weeks.
00:45We did it in six weeks, which Joe Biden refused to do in four years.
00:49And what we needed as a president articulated during the speech, all we needed was a new
00:54president who took border security seriously, and that's what we have in President Trump.
00:59Ninety-six percent decline on border crossing.
01:01But here's the most important part, what I think is the most important part, gataways.
01:06Under Joe Biden, we got 2.2 million people crossed the border, weren't apprehended, weren't
01:11fingerprinted, weren't vetted.
01:142.2 million people came into this country, and we got them on video, drone traffic, sensor
01:18traffic.
01:19They weren't apprehended because Border Patrol was too busy changing diapers, making baby
01:24formula, taking care of the humanitarian crisis of people coming across that border
01:27by the millions.
01:282.2 million people crossed the border.
01:30We don't know who they are, where they came from, and why they're here.
01:34Gataways by average were 1,800 a day under Joe Biden, 1,800 people a day crossed this
01:39border and weren't apprehended because they were, Border Patrol was so overwhelmed.
01:43The gataway number yesterday, 41, 41, 1,841.
01:49That means less people are getting, entering this country than, than, that, that we don't
01:53know who they are.
01:56When you have the border, and here's where I keep preaching, but the left keeps pushing
02:00back.
02:01When you have a 96% decline in illegal border crossing, when 96% less people are coming,
02:08how many women and children aren't being sexually assaulted by the cartels?
02:12How many children aren't dying crossing that border?
02:14How many pounds of fentanyl is not getting into this country to kill Americans?
02:18How many people on a terrorist watch list aren't escaping this country?
02:22How many billions of dollars are the cartels not making?
02:25A secure border saves lives, and that's what President Trump has done.
02:29We were saving lives by the thousands simply because we have a secure border.
02:33We got more to do.
02:34Look, we were arrested about three times more than Biden did in one month.
02:37I already talked about that.
02:39In one month, we compare his month to our month, we're arrested three times more than
02:43Joe Biden did.
02:44That's not enough.
02:45We need to do 10 times more, because he wasn't doing squat.
02:49So the media's been all over me, well, you know, are you happy with the numbers?
02:55I'm happy.
02:56I'm not satisfied.
02:58We're not going to rest.
03:00I'm not going to sleep well at night until every public safety threat, illegal aliens
03:04eradicated from this country.
03:06That's when we'll relax, and that's when we'll take action.