00:00I mean, I hope most Americans agree that public safety threats and national security threats shouldn't be walking the streets in this country, especially to hear it legally. So yeah, we like all the support we can get. I think we got the support of the majority of American people according to the polls, right?
00:30They need to be arresting 3,000 people a day. How soon do you expect that can actually happen? Is that enough?
00:37Look, I've said from day one, you guys ask me this question a lot of times. Am I happy the removal numbers? Am I happy the arrest numbers? And I've been afraid with you. I said, the numbers are better than Biden, but they're not good enough. I said, I'm not satisfied with the numbers, so we need to increase. I mean, you look at the recent numbers, we've got like 600,000 illegal aliens walking their streets in this country with criminal convictions.
00:59or pending criminal charges. So yeah, we need to do more. President Trump made a promise to American people. American people put him in office on this top issue is immigration enforcement. So yeah, we I have not been satisfied with the numbers.
01:13Kristi Noem, Steve Miller, myself, we all want more numbers. So we've increased the teams a lot. We're increased targeting a lot. So we expect a fast increase number of arrests every day.
01:26DHS says that assaults on ice officers are up over 400 percent. Does that track what you see? Can you speak to that?
01:35Yeah, the assaults on ice officers are high. The doxing of ice officers are at an all-time high. And people always complain. Some of you here say, why are they wearing masks? Because they're trying to protect themselves and their families. They've got a dangerous job to do. And they're being doxed every day across this country.
01:51I've experienced myself a hundred times. But I'm willing to take that because of the position I hold. And, you know, we're not running a popularity contest. We're trying to enforce the laws enacted by Congress doing it in a smart, effective way.
02:03So, yeah, the assaults are up. But it won't be tolerated. We've already shown. You put a hands on ice officer, you can be prosecuted to the highest extent of the law.
02:11So, we're not playing with any threats against ice officers. Doxing? We're going to look at doxing. We're going to take action on that also. Anything else?
02:22What kind of numbers do you have for self-deportations?
02:25The last time I saw was right around 8,500 as far as the CBP home app. There's a lot. There's thousands of deportations where they're not going through the app. They're just leaving.
02:39Intelligence reports showing traffic going south down into New Mexico, but even the Darien Gap. So, there's a lot of self-deportation. I hope they take advantage of it.
02:46Because, you know, they can leave on their own terms, get their affairs together, or we can go find them and formally deport them, which is going to set a bar against them coming back to the country under a legal program.
02:56So, they should self-deport, give themselves an opportunity, maybe in the future, to come back as a visitor or a tourist, or maybe they have a U.S. citizen child that can petition for them.
03:05Well, if we have to formally go through the process of seeking them out and formally deporting them, there's a statutory bar placed against them from ever coming back to the country.
03:13Do you expect those members to retire if the policy changes?
03:17I think that as they see the ice rest in the interior increase, which is going to see a vast increase in the rest, I think they're going to realize, we can do this under ice control.
03:29We can rest you at a place and remove you, or you can take it upon yourself to work with ice, get your arrangements in order, whether it's, you know, your home, your belongings, your family, and leave on your own.
03:41We'll give you a plane flight, we'll give you some money, or we can just go through the ice process.
03:48I think the more they see ice out there in the streets, arresting people and holding them accountable, the more they'll take advantage of doing the right thing.
03:54And one point for you, where, which countries, of the process that is still happening, where are these migrants mostly coming from?
04:03Is it still Central America, or are these...
04:05Right now, it's a lot of Mexican nationalists.
04:08Part of Elon Musk's team was trying to find thousands of people using the same social security number, is there no way to stop the flow to them so they'll help themselves to work?
04:17I mean, that seems true.
04:18I can't, I can't hear the question.
04:20Part of Elon Musk's team found thousands of people were using the same social security number, so one of the main reasons they're able to work is they're using the false social security number.
04:28Is there no way to stop the running forward to the cause of the people because they don't have a job building or not?
04:35We're all over that.
04:36We're all over the ministries of social security numbers, and we're tracking that.
04:40That actually comes up, provides a lot of leads for us to go find these people.
04:44Mr. Homer, what's the reason why ICE is apparently targeting Martha's Vineyard in Nantucket?
04:48Can you give me an assurance that that is not for people?
04:50Say that again?
04:51Apparently there's been a lot of ICE activity yesterday in Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard.
04:56Does that be confirmed that, or does that be done for a political reason?
05:00No.
05:01Martha's Vineyard isn't off the table.
05:03It's part of the country.
05:04We're doing immigration actions throughout the country.
05:06We're not saying we're going to favor one area over another.
05:09We're all over the country, in every neighborhood, in every city, and you're going to see an expansion of that.
05:14Like I just said, we're going to increase the teams greatly.
05:17So you're going to see more teams on the streets you've never seen before.
05:20You're going to see more work site enforcement than you've ever seen in the history of this nation.
05:24You've got sanctuary cities.
05:26Like I said, we're going to flood the zone.
05:28If we can't arrest a bad guy in the jail, one agent arrest a bad guy in the jail, in the safety and security of the jail,
05:34which is safer for the officer, safer for the alien, and safer for the community,
05:39okay, you're going to force them in the community to find them.
05:41If we can't find them in the community, we're going to find them at the work site.
05:44So we're going to flood the zone, and sanctuary cities will get exactly what they don't want.
05:49More agents in their neighborhoods, more work site enforcement, because we're going to get the bad guy.
05:54If you want to make it difficult for us, we'll do it.
05:57It'll take more time.
05:58It's less efficient, but we're not going to stop until we find that guy.
06:01There is no sanctuary for illegal aliens in this country.
06:10You can call it a sanctuary jurisdiction all you want.
06:13It's a bunch of crap, and we all know it.
06:15Sanctuary jurisdiction says, well, we want to protect the immigrant community.
06:19We want the victims and witnesses of a crime to be able to come to police, report a crime,
06:24without fear that we're working with us.
06:27That is a bunch of garbage, because victims and witnesses of crime don't want the bad guy in their neighborhood either.
06:34They want us in the jail arresting that bad guy.
06:36They'll be made much easier, most more efficient.
06:39But because they're forced into the neighborhoods, more non-criminal targets are being arrested,
06:43because ICE agents are not going to walk away from illegal aliens.
06:46You force us to go find the bad guy.
06:49Many times you're with others.
06:51At a work site, go look for the bad guy.
06:53There's ten more illegal aliens there.
06:54They're coming too.
06:55So I don't want to hear sanctuary cities complaining,
06:58well, look at all these collab arrests and non-criminal targets they're arresting.
07:01You force me in that position?
07:03So we're going to force law.
07:05Unlike the last administration, Secretary Mayorkas told ICE,
07:08you can't enforce immigration law.
07:11If they're not convicted of a serious crime, you can't arrest them for just being here illegally.
07:16That sends a message to the entire world.
07:18You can enter this country illegally, which is a crime.
07:21But as long as you're not convicted of a serious crime, you're free.
07:24No one's looking for you.
07:26Games change.
07:27We've got the greatest president in the history of this nation sitting in the Oval Office
07:30who's going to enforce immigration law and keep his promise to American people to make this country safe again.
07:35Can you just talk quickly about the social media accounts of the scrutiny that the Department of Law has created
07:40to be closed for foreign exchange?
07:42You can't hear it.
07:43The scrutiny of social media accounts that foreign exchange students are now being connected to.
07:50Can you talk a little bit about that?
07:51Why is he doing that now?
07:53Look, we look at a lot of different ways to find people we need to find,
07:57whether it's a criminal history, immigration issues, social media, undercover operations, surveillance.
08:03There's a whole myriad of law enforcement systems we use to find people
08:08and see our people are dangerous in the community.
08:10Social media is one of them.
08:12And we'll continue to use them.
08:13Is there something about the free speech aspect, though?
08:15We don't arrest anybody for free speech.
08:18I mean, free speech is legal, but there's a limit to that, too.
08:22I can't look at you and make a count about my desire to assassinate the president.
08:28Is that not free speech or is that a crime?
08:30I can't sit in a movie theater and yell fire and watch people get trampled to death.
08:34Is that free speech or is that a crime?
08:36There's a limit to free speech, but we're not arresting people based on free speech.
