EXCLUSIVE — White House border czar Tom Homan is the leading deportations official in the Trump administration and sat down with the Washington Examiner on the White House campus this week to discuss a slew of related issues, including which illegal immigrants are being targeted for arrest, going after sanctuary cities, Democrats’ role in the partial government shutdown, and crime in Washington, D.C.Washington Examiner homeland security reporter Anna Giaritelli spoke with Homan on Monday, May 18, about his work thus far and where President Donald Trump intends to take his immigration enforcement plans from here. Below is a transcript of the conversation, which can be found on the Washington Examiner’s YouTube page.GIARITELLI: It’s interesting that you’re the border czar, because it looks like your responsibilities are limited to the border, and that is in really good shape. But you’ve got an incredible amount of stuff under your portfolio right now.
HOMAN: Yeah, if you look at the president’s original announcement when he brought me back, he had me overseeing the border, immigration enforcement, interior immigration enforcement, national security. I mean, he gave me a pretty large footprint when he announced me. So my first conversations with the president, first of all, I’m honored that I was the first one he brought back, which made me feel really well. But he said, ‘Secure the border, oversee a mass deportation operation, and find these kids.’ You know there was right around 300,000 children that were smuggled in the country. The Biden administration released them to unvetted, not properly vetted sponsors, they lost track like 300,000. Over 500,000 were smuggled, but they lost track of 300 so he gave me that, too. So right off the bat, I was at three, three tasks right from the beginning, then just the tasks just kept adding.
