Homan: “If you’re in the country illegally, you better be looking over your shoulder”
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From Heritage's Policy Fest at the Republican National Convention, streamed on YouTube on July 15, 2024
TOM HOMAN: Last week I made a statement: "You ain't seen nothing yet. Wait until 2025." So I said it. I meant it. You can go ahead and print it. People say, Trump's threatening this historic deportation operations. He's going to build concentration camps. He's going to sweep neighborhoods. Let me be clear. None of that will happen.
We are going to have a historic deportation operation, because you've got a historic, illegal immigration, crossing the southern border. If you look at immigration court data, 9 out of 10, nearly 9 out of 10 of these people won't get asylum because they don't qualify. So they're going to be ordered removed. They'll get a federal order saying they must leave. What is the option? You have to execute those orders, or you know what, just shut down immigration court. Take the Border Patrol off the border. What the hell are we doing?
So when they get due process at billions of dollars of taxpayers' money and a federal judge says "you must go home," the Trump administration is going to make them go home. And it's going to require a historic deportation operation.
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No one’s off the table. If you’re in the country illegally, it’s not OK. If you’re in the country illegally, you better be looking over your shoulder.
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The bottom line is: every illegal alien is a criminal. They enter the country in violation of federal law. It's a crime to enter this country illegally.