Border czar Tom Homan is a man on a mission. He wants everyone to fall in line with Trump’s immigration agenda.
That’s why Tom Homan had scorching hot words in an eyebrow-raising meeting with Florida Governor Ron DeSantis.
Tom Homan And Ron DeSantis Put Anti-Trump Republicans On Notice
On Thursday, Tom Homan, the border czar, expressed his frustration with certain congressional Republicans during a discussion at New College of Florida. Homan joined Republican Florida Governor Ron DeSantis to talk about immigration and national security, using the opportunity to call out GOP members who he believes are not doing enough to secure the nation’s borders.
Speaking candidly, Homan urged voters to take action against Republicans who fail to support President Donald Trump’s agenda wholeheartedly. “Let’s not forget, under Trump one, Trump 45, you had the House and the Senate. They didn’t help him,” Homan stated, pointing out that the lack of support wasn’t limited to Democrats alone. “And I’m not just talking about Democrats … So bottom line is, now we have both again and, as Governor DeSantis said, we’re not getting what we need.”
Homan expressed disappointment that some lessons from Trump’s first term seem to have gone unlearned. “So they didn’t learn a lesson from the first administration. I was hoping and praying they learned a lesson. Let’s hope they come through … what have they done? Nothing,” he said, adding a stern warning: “So hopefully they wake up or … some Republican Senators and Congress need to leave. We need to vote them out because they’re not doing the right thing.”
Meanwhile, House Majority Whip Tom Emmer has been pressing the Senate to move faster on Trump’s legislative goals. Emmer insists that congressional Republicans must act with greater speed to turn the president’s priorities into law, signaling a push from within the party to align more closely with Trump’s vision.
Part of that vision includes strengthening Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Republican lawmakers are working to secure additional funding for the agency, aiming to ramp up Trump’s deportation plans alongside other key initiatives.
House Speaker Mike Johnson has also voiced strong support for preserving Trump’s policies. Speaking at the Conservative Political Action Conference in February, Johnson revealed plans to lock in Trump’s executive actions through legislation. “The president [has] 300 executive actions already, and we’re going to codify so much of what he’s doing so the next team can’t unwind it,” Johnson said, emphasizing the intent to create a lasting framework that future administrations would find difficult to dismantle.
Together, these efforts show a Republican Party grappling with internal pressure to unify behind Trump’s agenda, while leaders like Homan, Emmer, and Johnson work to steer Congress toward decisive action on border security and immigration enforcement. For Homan, the stakes are clear: those who don’t step up should face the consequences at the ballot box.
Trump’s Border Czar Defends Mass Deportation Push Amid Legal Challenges
The Trump administration’s unwavering commitment to securing America’s borders took center stage this week as “border czar” Tom Homan fiercely defended the ongoing mass deportation campaign. Speaking on Fox News Monday, Homan made it clear that the administration has no intention of slowing down its aggressive efforts to remove dangerous individuals from the country—court rulings and injunctions be d*mned.
“We’re not stopping,” Homan declared during the interview. “I don’t care what the judges think. I don’t care what the left thinks. We’re coming.” His words signal the administration’s resolve to prioritize national security and public safety over what it views as judicial overreach and political posturing from opponents.
The deportation campaign has hit a few roadblocks in recent weeks, with several judges attempting to pump the brakes on the effort. On Saturday, Chief U.S. Judge James Boasberg in Washington, D.C., issued an order demanding that planes carrying suspected Venezuelan gang members—already en route to El Salvadoran prisons—be turned back to the United States. The move came after President Trump signed a proclamation invoking the Alien Enemies Act, a 1798 law last used during World War II, to target members of the notorious Tren de Aragua gang for immediate removal. Trump’s order accused the gang of engaging in “mass illegal migration to the United States to further its objectives of harming United States citizens.”
Despite Boasberg’s ruling, the administration successfully deported as many as 300 alleged Tren de Aragua members over the weekend. Homan, who personally oversaw the operation, told Fox News that the flights were already in international waters by the time the judge’s order came down. “We’re outside the borders of the United States,” he explained. “I’m the border czar. Once you’re outside the border, you know, it is what it is.” For Homan and the Trump team, the mission was clear: get these threats out of the country, no matter the timing of a judge’s pen.
The administration argues that these deportations are a matter of national security, a stance White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt reinforced during a Monday briefing. She revealed that the U.S. paid El Salvador $6 million to accept 261 of the deported gang members, emphasizing that the operation complied with Boasberg’s written order—since it was finalized before the ruling was officially issued. When pressed about an earlier verbal order from the judge, Leavitt pointed to legal debates over whether a spoken directive holds the same weight as a written one. Homan, however, took a more direct approach on Fox, admitting he made the call to keep the planes moving because they were already beyond U.S. jurisdiction.
Critics, including four Democratic senators from the Judiciary Committee, have blasted the administration’s actions. “Let’s be clear: we are not at war, and immigrants are not invading our country,” they said in a statement. “Furthermore, courts determine whether people have broken the law — not a president acting alone, and not immigration agents picking and choosing who gets imprisoned or deported.” But for the Trump administration, such criticism is just noise from the sidelines. The focus remains on protecting Americans from what they see as clear threats—like the Tren de Aragua gang—regardless of procedural complaints from the Left or legal wrangling from the bench.
The weekend’s drama unfolded after news of the deportation flights leaked, prompting Boasberg to hold an emergency hearing at 5 p.m. Saturday. There, he expanded his order to block all Venezuelan deportations under the Alien Enemies Act, insisting that “any plane containing these folks that is going to take off or is in the air needs to be returned to the United States.”
Lawyers representing nearly 300 Venezuelans say the judge’s oral order to turn the planes around came between 6:45 p.m. and 6:48 p.m. Eastern—too late, Homan argued, to stop flights already nearing their destination. “Whether in international waters already on the way south, close to landing, you know what, we did what we had to do, remove terrorists, significant public safety threats from United States,” he told Fox. “By the order of the proclamation by the president United States, we did the right thing.”
Homan didn’t mince words when speaking to reporters outside the White House on Monday, either. “We removed terrorists. That should be a celebration. We removed terrorists from this country,” he said. “I stand by what the president did.” When asked how the administration identifies these so-called terrorists, Homan pointed to “various investigations,” citing social media activity, U.S. and foreign criminal records, and other law enforcement-sensitive methods he declined to detail. “The review of this issue was at the highest level I’ve seen,” he added. “And I think again, I stand by everything we did this weekend. … I can’t believe any media would question the President’s ability to remove terrorists from this country.”
The fight is far from over. With legal battles heating up and more court challenges expected this week, the administration is gearing up for a showdown. Homan made it clear on Fox that the White House and Department of Homeland Security have no plans to back down. When host Lawrence Jones asked, “You’re going against the judges now, what’s next?” Homan’s response was simple: “Another flight. Another flight every day.” He also vowed that ICE agents would keep hitting the streets, targeting criminal illegal aliens and national security risks in communities across the nation. “They’re not going to stop us,” he said.
For the Trump administration, this is about more than just policy—it’s about keeping America safe. Homan and his team see the judiciary’s interference as a hurdle, not a roadblock, and they’re ready to push forward with the president’s vision, one flight at a time.
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