Americans who are hoping for yet more crackdowns on illegal immigration out of the Trump Administration have gotten yet more good news, as President Trump threw his support behind ICE’s immigration raid tactics as Tom Homan appeared on Fox News and explained that “historic” deportation numbers are on their way and tens of thousands of new agents are being unleashed.
For reference, the nearly open border under Biden was one of the main issues against which President Trump ran, and so success on solving that issue is a key matter for the Trump Administration. To achieve as much, it pushed for tens of billions of dollars in new border funding with the Big, Beautiful Bill, and that allowed it to expand agencies like ICE tremendously.
Commenting on the matter during an appearance on Fox & Friends, Homan explained that the administration has already achieved a historic number of deportations this year, but next year’s results will be even more impressive. He said, “We’re gonna blow this historic number [of deportations] out of the water next year!”
Continuing, he gave his take on how many million illegal aliens are already here, noting that it’s likely somewhere in the 25-26 million range, given how many entered under Biden and how many were here before his administration. The Border Czar said, “We gotta look for that 10.5 million illegal aliens that came across that border. We gotta look, that’s in addition to 15 million already here!”
Adding to that, he noted that there are already tremendous successes being made by Border Patrol and ICE as the two groups work together to arrest and remove as many illegal aliens as possible. He said, “Border Patrol is backstopping ICE on the interior. It’s working! Record numbers of removals, arrests. Right now we already have a record number, historic number of arrests and removals this fiscal year.”
Then, commenting yet further on that point, the border czar framed the tremendous progress as being the fulfillment of one of President Trump’s most important campaign pledges, saying, “The agents out there are doing what President Trump promised he’d do – make his country safe again.” Watch Mr. Homan here:
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President Trump, for his part, told “60 Minutes” during an interview that he thinks the ICE raids haven’t “gone far enough” yet because of the woke judiciary, saying, when asked if they’ve gone too far, “No. I think they haven’t gone far enough because we’ve been held back by the – by the judges, by the liberal judges that were put in by Biden and by Obama.”
When pressed on if he thinks the tactics are acceptable, he said, “Yeah, because you have to get the people out. You know, you have to look at the people. Many of them are murderers. Many of them are people that were thrown outta their countries because they were, you know, criminals. Many of them are people from jails and prisons. Many of them are people from frankly mental institutions. I feel badly about that, but they’re released from insane asylums. You know why? Because they’re killers.”
Watch him here:
CBS: “Americans have been watching videos of ICE tackling a young mother, tear gas being used in Chicago, & the smashing of car windows. Have the raids gone too far?”
TRUMP: “I think they haven’t gone far enough.” 🔥pic.twitter.com/HRjV4ApH4r
— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) November 2, 2025