‘There's No Sanctuary For Public Safety Threats’: Tom Homan Shares Crackdown Plans On Illegal Employment

At Monday’s White House press briefing, Border Czar Tom Homan unveiled his plans to crackdown on businesses employing undocumented immigrants.

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00:00Sure. Many are wondering how these 10 or 20 million people are working. Is there some

00:07efforts to clamp down on employment? Because they're working somewhere to keep staying here.

00:13I don't. The number of worksite enforcement actions have tripled this year and it's going

00:19to triple again. Because in sanctuary jurisdictions especially, if we can't arrest a bad guy in the

00:25safety and security of a county jail, they're going to release them into community. That means

00:29we go into the community. If we can't arrest them in the community, we'll arrest them at their

00:34worksite. We got to do what we got to do to arrest public safety threats. There's no sanctuary for

00:40public safety threats in this country. So worksite enforcement is going to increase even more than

00:45it already has. And another reason for worksite, the last administration stopped worksites.

00:49Where's the number one place we find victims of trafficking? Victims of forced labor trafficking

00:57and worksites. So not only are we going to enforce law on worksites, we're going to save

01:01victims of trafficking. That's another reason we've increased worksite enforcement.