Border czar Tom Homan reprimanded the judge who attempted to stop the deportation flights of 261 illegal immigrants.
Judge James Boasberg of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia issued a ruling on Saturday night that prohibited deportation flights for 14 days while he oversees a case involving five immigrants with active deportation orders. The Trump administration went through with the deportations as the planes were already airborne when Boasberg’s ruling came out.
“I’m the border czar. Once you are outside the border, it is what it is. Whether in international waters, already on the way south close to landing. Do you know what? We did what we had to do: remove terrorists, significant public safety threats to the United States by the order proclamation the president of the United States we did the right thing,” Homan said on Fox News’s Fox and Friends Monday. “It just defies logic. I mean who in the right mind whether you are a judge or not wants known TDA [Tren de Aragua] a recognized terrorist organization sent here by the Maduro regime to create havoc to unsettle the United States?”
El Salvador received 2238 of the deported immigrants, including Venezuelans associated with the TDA gang. Salvadorian President Nayim Bukele received them at the Terrorism Confinement Center CECOT. All prisoners will stay there for a minimum of one year.
“What’s next,” Fox News host Lawrence Jones asked.
“Another flight. Another flight every day. Teams are going to be out there every day,” Homan said. “Every day, the men and women of ICE are going to be in the neighborhoods of this nation arresting criminal illegal aliens, public and national security threats. Lawrence, they’re not going to stop us.”
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When Homan began working for the Trump administration, there were an estimated 1.3 million illegal immigrants with outstanding deportation orders.
As of February, there had been just over 8,300 encounters with migrants at the southwest border since the beginning of the year. This follows three years where upward of 150,000 attempted to cross on a monthly basis. According to Homan, the stark change happened during the first two days of the second Trump administration when only 766 apprehensions were reported on the southwest border.
