Border Czar Tom Homan Flips ABC’s Pro-Illegal Talking Point on Its Head [WATCH]

Border czar Tom Homan pushed back against questions surrounding the Trump administration’s deportation of known Venezuelan gang members during an appearance on ABC’s This Week on Sunday, clashing with guest host Jonathan Karl over the legal handling of the case.

Homan’s appearance followed a March 15 decision by United States District Judge James Boasberg in Washington, D.C., who issued an injunction ordering the administration to reverse two deportation flights carrying members of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua (TdA) to El Salvador.

Trump’s Border Czar forcefully responded when Karl raised concerns about “due process” in the deportations.

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“Due process — where is Laken Riley’s due process? Where are all these young women killed and raped by members of the TdA? Where was their due process? The young woman on the subway, where is her due process?” Homan asked.

Homan continued, stating, “The bottom line is, that plane was full of people designated as terrorists, number one. Number two, every Venezuelan migrant on that flight was a TdA member based on numerous criminal investigations, on intelligence reports, and a lot of work by ICE officers.”

He noted that after the deportation flights took off, he spoke directly with the acting ICE director who reaffirmed that every individual on board was identified as a known member of Tren de Aragua.

“As a matter of fact, two days after that flight took off, I even had a discussion with the acting director of ICE, and he reiterated that every person, every Venezuelan on that plane was a known member of the TdA,” Homan said.

“So, a lot of officers, criminal investigators, special agents who have done this for decades, looked at the intelligence information, the criminal investigation information, all the various social media and surveillance and government records and public records and they are confident they’re all members of the TdA.”

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President Donald Trump issued executive orders shortly after taking office on January 20, which included classifying TdA, MS-13, and Mexican drug cartels as foreign terrorist organizations.

The administration’s strategy was aimed at swiftly removing individuals affiliated with transnational criminal groups involved in violence across the U.S.

Tren de Aragua, originally from Venezuela, has been connected to multiple criminal operations across the United States.

Reports have linked members of the gang to violent incidents, including murders and kidnappings, as well as the takeover of residential complexes in Aurora, Colorado.

Homan emphasized the legal foundation for the deportations and contrasted it with the approach taken by the previous administration.

“They were given due process according to the laws on the books. See, that’s the difference between the Trump Administration and the Biden Administration,” Homan said.

“We’re actually using the laws on the books to enforce immigration laws and secure the border at the highest level it’s ever been.”

He added, “The Biden Administration not only ignored the law, they violated the law like the district court and in district five said that not only were they violating the law, they were actually ignoring the law altogether.”

“We are using the laws on the books to enforce our border immigration laws and enforcement. If you look, the border numbers are down 96%. We already got 40,000 criminals removed by I.C.E. in the interior which more was done in six weeks than the Biden administration did in a year. We’re using the laws on the books. We’re not making this up.”

According to data from U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), millions of illegal immigrants have crossed the U.S. border since the beginning of fiscal year 2021.

On February 25, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem announced that only 200 illegal immigrants were apprehended at the southern border that day—the lowest single-day total in 15 years.

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