Incoming Border Czar Tom Homan revealed that ridding the United States of violent criminal organizations like Tren de Aragua and MS-13 is going to be a “major priority” of the incoming Trump administration.
“So this is going to be a huge operation,” Homan said in a Fox News interview. “I’m looking forward to getting it started. I haven’t started the operation yet, but I have already worked with the Texas governor on the plans and the Texas border czar.”
Homan also argued that sanctuary cities should allow immigration officials to enter jails and conduct removals of violent criminals already in captivity, rather than waiting until the criminal is released back onto the streets.
“So let us in the jail,” he said. “It’s safer for everybody and it’s the right thing to do.”
In addition to meeting with Texas officials, Homan said that he has discussed plans with New York Mayor Eric Adams as well as hundreds of sheriffs across the country.
“The National Sheriffs Association is ready to go to work with us. So, January 20, game on,” he concluded.
Shortly after being tapped for the nomination, the incoming border czar pledged that the administration would find and rescue hundreds of thousands of missing children who were smuggled into the U.S.
“We have over half a million children that were smuggled into this country by criminal cartels that this administration released to so-called ‘sponsors,’” Homan said at the time.
“We’re going to find those half a million children, and we’re going to save them. We’ll put them back with their families—that’s what President Trump is committed to doing,” he added.