Tom Homan, a former acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), criticized the Biden administration's border policies on Fox News Friday, saying they empower criminal cartels by allowing millions of immigrants into the country and threaten national security. claimed to be damaging.
Since the Biden-Harris administration took office, Border Patrol has encountered more than 7 million migrants at the southern border, according to Customs and Border Protection. Homan said the United States will continue to face large numbers of illegal immigrants unless former President Donald Trump returns to office.
“They're not going anywhere unless President Trump returns to the White House,” Homan told Laura Ingraham about the influx of migrants from Venezuela, Nicaragua and Cuba. “Then they're bringing in thousands of cases every day through the CBP1 app… historic numbers. Mexico has tightened up a little bit. Why? Because they don't want President Trump to be president. Trump. Who else wouldn't want the president to be president? Mexican criminal cartels make billions of dollars every month.”
CBP1 is an app used by migrants seeking asylum to pre-schedule processing appointments at the U.S.-Mexico border. According to to the American Immigration Council.
“The Mexican government does not want President Trump to become president because the gravy train is over. Terrorist organizations around the world that are using this country's southwest border as an entry point also want President Trump to become president. “I don't want to be president,” he added.
Thousands of illegal immigrants and other noncitizens convicted of felonies, including murder and sexual assault, are currently at large in the United States, according to federal data disclosed in a letter Wednesday. The letter, addressed to Republican Texas Rep. Tony Gonzalez, notes that as of July 21, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) had more than 662,566 noncitizens with criminal records in their custody nationwide. This indicates that both those who are detained and those who are not detained are included.
A Venezuelan gang called Torren de Aragua is reportedly taking advantage of the Biden-Harris administration's border crisis to expand its operations into the United States, and experts say immigration authorities are investigating members of the group. It points out that it is not possible to identify the identity of the person before arriving in the mainland United States. (Related article: 'I don't appreciate being lectured': CNN panelist takes a swipe at Frank Luntz as immigration debate heats up)
On September 19, at a forum hosted by Oprah Winfrey, Vice President Kamala Harris wavered when asked about her strategy for combating illegal immigration. She referenced her tenure as California's attorney general and prosecutor, then moved on to discuss the failure of a bipartisan border bill, without directly addressing the issue.
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