Border Czar Tom Homan Admits 'Collateral Arrests Will Increase' Amid Nationwide ICE Sweeps

3/25/2025

During a press event with reporters outside the White House on Tuesday, Border Czar Tom Homan shared his predication for collateral arrests during future Immigration and Customs Enforcement sweeps.

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00:00we can do it. What would you say to families of some of the individuals

00:03deported who say that they do not have affiliations to gang to T. D. A. Are

00:10you going to provide more details? Look, I was I I'm not aware. I didn't drill

00:14into everyone on that plane. We left it up the ice. The highest officials that

00:19I have said that they are confident that every one of the events of women's

00:23on those planes remember T. D. A. Everybody's how do you know? Look, I'm

00:27one. A lot of this stuff is law enforcement sensitive. I'm not going to

00:30share a lot of this stuff with you because we certainly don't want to show

00:32how we do our inside work because that's going to just help the criminals

00:36out there once they read it. But I can tell you hundreds and hundreds of hours

00:41were spent on investigations, whether it's looking their criminal history,

00:44was looking immigration history, we're looking at undercover videos, whether

00:50it's talking to informants, whether it's talking to other members of the

00:53gang who gave sworn statements. There's a lot of ways that this was

00:56done. A lot of time was spent doing this again. And I and I got assurances

01:02from the highest levels of ice that this was done right. And everybody in

01:04that plane, uh, vends awareness for T. D. A. S. And I got to remember, first

01:08of all, let's remember one thing. First of all, everyone that claims illegal

01:11ailing in the country legally. Number two, many of that plane will remove

01:15the title eight. They already had to remove from an immigration judge. And

01:19again, we're talking about terrorists. T. D. A. And Mr T was on the plane.

01:22They've been doesn't a terrorist organizations. They're not good people.

01:25So I trust the men and women. I said they did the right thing, and I stand

01:28by it right now.

01:37I didn't hear that question.

01:43Well, we're prioritization is those who are public safety threats,

01:47national security threats. Let me share it with you, because we just

01:50operation in Boston, 370 apprehensions. Most of our criminals, but many were

01:55collateral. Majority of criminals. How come the collateral? I've said this

01:591000 times. Sanctuary City is gonna get exactly what they don't want. More

02:03agents in the community and more collateral rest. Why? Because we can't

02:07get access to the bad guy in the county jail if they're gonna choose to

02:11release him in the public, which is just releasing a public safety threat

02:14in public system. It's just dumb to begin with, because it puts a public

02:18safety at risk, right? But when you release that public safety threat back

02:21in the public, that means we gotta go find him when we find him. Most likely,

02:26he's with others. And if they're in, if they're in the country lately, they're

02:29coming to because we're not gonna tell ice. Ignore the oath that you took to

02:33enforce immigration law and walk away from illegal alien like the last

02:36administration does. So if you want to force forces in the communities, fine,

02:39we'll go. But collateral rest will increase because we're gonna run into

02:43illegal aliens while we're in course of the most targets. So again, you want

02:47you want to decrease the collateral rest? You want to decrease non criminals

02:50and let us in the damn jail.

02:55I don't have the number. I tell you, the majority were criminals, like

02:57criminal histories. And we gotta remember, we arrested. I think there's

03:00four people, uh, conviction for murder, homicide. We arrested child sex

03:06predators. We arrested drug traffickers and gun traffickers. We seized guns. We

03:10seized drugs. That's a great thing about President Trump is all the

03:13government approach. It's a game changer because we do these operations.

03:17We find find an illegal and with narcotics. The age right there to

03:21prosecute the case. We find the guns, ATFs right there to prosecute the gun

03:24cases. And of course, ice will continue to prosecute re entries after re

03:28entries after removal. So we get a lot of prosecutions out of these

03:31operations again. Reason why we focus on sanctuary cities because they're

03:35the most dangerous places because they release public safety threats back

03:38into the public. We're cooperating jurisdiction. We don't have that much

03:42of a concern or that bigger target of criminal aliens walking the streets.

03:47President Trump has made a commitment to American people. We're going to

03:50decrease illegal alien crime. The city we're going to concentrate on public

03:53safety threats and national security threats. The data proves what we're

03:56doing. We're going to keep President Trump's promise to American people. He

03:59was given a mandate to this number one issue, secure the border and deal with

04:03illegal animal crime in this country. And that's exactly what we're doing.

Border Czar Tom Homan Admits 'Collateral Arrests Will Increase' Amid Nationwide ICE Sweeps

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