Incoming border czar Tom Homan recently shut down CBS host Margaret Brennan after she tried to back the former ICE director into a corner with a question about the Trump administration’s deportation agenda. When Margaret inquired if the proposed mass deportations would impact industries that rely on illegal immigrant labor, Homan set the record straight and illustrated President Trump’s true priorities.
“On can you help us understand what the plan is? You know, a number of industries in this country hire undocumented workers because they are cheap labor. On day one, are you going to restart raids on work sites, on construction sites?” the host asked Homan. “President Trump’s been clear, as I’ve been clear from day one, that President is going to concentrate on public safety threats and national security threats,” he responded.
Continuing to illustrate the priorities of the incoming administration, Homan continued, “And have you heard from your previous segments, we have a huge national security issue in this country. The Southwest border has become the biggest national security vulnerability we’ve seen in this nation. The FBI directorate agrees with me.”
Substantiating his claims, he said, “We know there’s people in this country who pose a national security threat, they were arrested a record number of people on terrace was a 3500% increase in the terrorist watch list being arrested at the border. We’ve got over 2 million known got aways. We know 2 million people crossing border, weren’t arrested and weren’t vetted.”
The Tribune reported on another interview Homan gave with “60 Minutes” in which interviewer Cecilia Vega pressed Homan on his deportation plans. The host asked him, “Is there a way to carry out mass deportation without separating families?” Homan immediately said, “Of course there is. Families can be deported together.” Homan’s response left Vega slack-jawed.
As background, Homan explained the stance during a prior interview with Newsnation in which he said, “We’re not going to detain US citizen children, which means, you know, they’re going to be put in a halfway house, or they can stay at home and wait for the officers to get the travel arrangements and come back to get them.” He further noted, “The best thing to do is for the family to self-deport themselves. That makes it easier for the family. They can get their arrangements all together and they leave on their own behalf.”
Refusing to back down from Vega, who blasted him for trying to separate families, he said, “Because their parent absolutely entered the country illegally, had a child knowing he was in the country illegally. So he created that crisis.”
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Watch Homan shut down Margaret Brenna below:
Moreover, Vega questioned Homan on if he wrote a report recommending family separation at the border, Homan told her, “Not true. I didn’t write the memorandum to separate families. I signed the memo. Why’d I sign the memo? I was hoping to save lives. While you and I are talking right now, a child’s going to die in the border. . . . So we thought, ‘so maybe if we prosecute people, they’ll stop coming.’”
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