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From the May 14, 2020, edition of Fox News' Fox & Friends

BRIAN KILMEADE (CO-HOST): Tom, this is different. We’re actually talking about legal immigration coming in and overwhelming a city south of San Diego City, which is now the third most for coronavirus patients. Why are they still dealing with other countries’ issues?

TOM HOMAN: Well, see, Brian, I wrote an op-ed on April 9 on FoxNews.com. I said this was going to happen. Look, this COVID is nothing new, even though it’s a terrible disease, it’s a new disease, it’s not new that disease comes across that border every day. When I was ICE director, we had facilities that were cohorted and shut down over measles, which this country defeated decades ago.

We’ve had TB cases that were unrecognizable that there was no known treatment for and we spent months trying to come up with some way to treat this person. Imagine if that person was released in our community. And I said in my op-ed that there will be Mexican nationals attempting to come to the United States to a better health care system, and plus their economy is taking two hits.

KILMEADE: These guys and women are coming over, but it is legal but then they’re allowed to use our system, which is crazy.