'Why Is It Necessary?': Tom Homan Asked About Marines In San Diego To Help With Border Security

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Border Czar Tom Homan held a press gaggle outside the White House on Monday, where he was asked about Marines in San Diego helping with border security.

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00:00Sir, there's a Marine station right now in the San Diego area helping with border protection.

00:05If encounters have dropped as dramatically as we know that we've seen the numbers drop,

00:10why is it necessary for a Marine presence to be there near the San Diego border?

00:14Because it's a national security issue right now.

00:16I think we all recognize the national security temperature right now is at a high level.

00:21We're going to take every opportunity we can to secure that border

00:24and make sure we don't do what the Biden administration did and let the gotaways.

00:28Let me give you, for example, having those resources on the border.

00:31Now, on an average day, under the Biden administration, we had 1,800 gotaways that we knew of, that we counted in 1,800.

00:38You know what they were today?

00:4018.

00:41So we got that border locked down.

00:43So then why is it necessary for the Marine presence to be there in addition to the regular border?

00:48So there's less gotaways.

00:49The more resources we have, the more people we stop and come into the country,

00:53especially right now during national security,

00:55the vulnerability we have right now with Iran and other countries.

00:58I'd rather have too many resources than not enough

01:00because once you make that mistake, there's no going back.

01:03That's right.

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