Speaking to Margaret Brennan on her “Face the Nation” program with CBS News on Sunday, January 5, incoming Trump Administration border czar sounded off on the terror danger posed by the seemingly quite open US-Mexico border, noting that numerous terror watchlist suspects have been caught crossing as of late.
Homan isn’t the only one to sound off on the terror threat posed by the border security situation. In one post on Truth Social, for example, the president-elect slammed President Biden for the disaster at the border and connected it to the attack, saying, “With the Biden “Open Border’s Policy” I said, many times during Rallies, and elsewhere, that Radical Islamic Terrorism, and other forms of violent crime, will become so bad in America that it will become hard to even imagine or believe.”
In any case, Mr. Homan noted that the border has become a major national security issue, saying, “President Trump has been clear, as I’ve been clear from day one, the president is going to concentrate on public safety threats and national security threats. And have you heard from your previous segments, we have a huge national security issue in this country.”
He continued, commenting on the scope of the situation and noting that the FBI director agrees with his assessment, saying, “The Southwest border has become the biggest national security vulnerability we’ve seen in this nation. FBI Director Wray agrees with me. We know there’s people in this country who oppose the national security threat.”
Then, noting the massive scale of the terror situation, Homan said, “They’ve arrested a record number of people on terrorist watch lists, a 3500% increase in people on the terrorist watch list being arrested at the border. We got over 2 million known gotaways. We know 2 million people crossed the border, weren’t arrested, weren’t vetted, weren’t fingerprinted.”
He added, commenting on the potential that there are many more terrorists in the country than admitted, “So you gotta ask yourself, why did 2 million people pay more to get away? Why didn’t they pay less, turn themselves into border patrol, get a free airline ticket to the city of their choice, get a free hotel room, get three meals a day, get free medical care. Why did—”
At that point, Margaret Brennan cut him off, snapping, “I’m- I’m not disputing that it is a hemisphere wide crisis. We’re talking about how you’re going to deal with it. That’s why I’m asking you, when you say criminals, does that mean you are going to go into al- already existing prisons at local level and deport people who are in those prisons? Are you going to go to work forces? I mean, how do you know where the criminals are, I guess, is the question? And if they’re working at a work site, are you going to show up to surprise them?”
Homan told her, “Well, look, we know where a lot of the criminals are. ICE- ICE does. They’re great at this work. We know where some are, but they simply haven’t been able to go arrest them, because the Secretary Mayorkas priorities, it handcuffed ICE. So we know where a lot of criminals are, they- they’ve been- been prevented from arresting that we’re going to arrest starting day one. As far as being in jails and prisons, we would love to work in local jails, but sanctuary cities won’t allow us into those jails. It’s much easier to arrest a public safety threat in the safety and security of a public jail than out in the street, because the officer is safer that way, the alien’s safer that way, the community is safer that way.”
He added, “But sanctuary cities who continue to release public safety threats back in the community to the immigrant community, it puts that community at greater risk of crime. And- and- and here’s what’s going to happen, when we go to the community and find that person, find that criminal alien, it’s probably going to be with others. Others we’ll have to arrest. So it’s not safe for the community, not safe for the officers, not safe for anybody. Let us arrest a bad guy in the jail cell where you chose to arrest somebody and put him in the jail cell because obviously he’s a public safety threat.”
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