Tom Homan: “Catch and release is over”
“From day one, you don’t have to support ICE’s operations. You can support sanctuary cities if that’s what you desire to do. Sanctuary cities can stand aside and watch ICE keep their communities safe, because any public official, your mayor, city councilman, or governor, their number one responsibility is the protection of communities.
And ICE has been clear: we’re targeting public safety threats and national security threats. I can’t believe there’s any elected official, and especially a judge, that doesn’t believe we should be doing that and they should be helping us. What I said from day one: you can sit aside and watch, you can argue against us all you want, and protest all you want, but when you cross that line—I’ve said this a thousand times—when you cross that line to impeding or knowingly harboring, concealing, an illegal alien from ICE, you will be prosecuted. Judge or not.
And as far as releasing so many people—you know why the Biden administration released millions of people into the United States? No one ever talks about it. I’ll talk about it. Why did they release people into the interior of the United States and put them in a hotel rather than an ICE bed? Why not put them in an empty ICE bed at $127 a night rather than in a hotel room at $500 a night?
They did it on purpose because if you put them in an ICE detention bed, they get a hearing in 35 days. Court records show 9 out of 10 people who claim asylum get an order of removal; they’re gone. But if you release them and put them in a hotel room at $500 a night, their hearings can be five, seven, nine years as they pull out all appeals. And what are they hoping for then?
That another Democrat administration’s in power. They can grant amnesty to millions. This is about selling this country off for future political power. That’s what it was. The law clearly says if you arrive at our border without proper documentation, you shall be detained. Not maybe, not think about it—you shall. And that’s what President Trump’s doing. Catch and release is over. That’s what the law says, and that’s what we’ve done.”
