“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,” Homan said Monday on Fox News’s Fox and Friends. “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. It just defies logic. I mean who in the right mind, whether you are a judge or not, wants known [Tren de Aragua], a recognized terrorist organization sent here by the Maduro regime, to create havoc to unsettle the United States?”
El Salvador received 2,238 of the deported immigrants, including Venezuelans associated with the Tren de Aragua gang. Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele received them at the Terrorism Confinement Center. All prisoners will stay there for a minimum of one year.
“What’s next?” Fox News host Lawrence Jones asked.
“Another flight,” Homan said. “Another flight every day. Teams are going to be out there every day. Every day, the men and women of [Immigration and Customs Enforcement] 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 more than 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.