Border Czar Tom Homan Claims Trump's Immigration Policies Are 'Saving Lives Every Day'

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On Saturday, Border Czar Tom Homan spoke at a Turning Point USA event in Tampa, Florida.

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00:00USA! USA! USA!

00:02All right.

00:04That's, uh...

00:08So I feel kind of bad.

00:12Because you just heard some great peaching.

00:16Look, I'm a badass.

00:18I say bad things.

00:22So, look, let me just start out by saying this.

00:24Sometimes I use a bad word, sometimes I'm harsh.

00:28But if I offend anybody here tonight,

00:30I don't give a shit.

00:36So, look,

00:38this is the second time I came out of retirement

00:40from President Trump, who happens to be

00:42the greatest president in my lifetime.

00:48So I was the first guy the president called,

00:50and I remember after the election,

00:52I'm out to dinner with my wife,

00:54and the phone's sitting on the table,

00:56and all of a sudden it rings and says,

00:58POTUS.

01:00My wife says, shit.

01:02She goes, he's going to ask you to come back.

01:04So I walked outside, and the first thing

01:06out of his mouth was, Tom,

01:08you've been bitching about it for four years,

01:10you want to come back and fix it?

01:12He says, you're damn right, let's go.

01:14So, look,

01:20Joe Biden took the most secure border

01:22in my lifetime under Trump 45,

01:24and unsecured it on purpose.

01:26The first president in the history of this nation

01:28who came into office and unsecured

01:30the border on purpose.

01:32It wasn't an accident, it wasn't a mismanagement.

01:34So where are we at today?

01:36Tonight, as I'm talking to you,

01:38we've got the most secure border

01:40in the history of this nation.

01:44In the history.

01:48Illegal immigration is down 96%.

01:52That means 96% less people are coming.

01:55When 96% less people are coming,

01:57how many women aren't being raped by the cartels?

02:00How many children aren't dying making that journey?

02:02How many pounds of fat and all is it getting to the country

02:04to kill Americans?

02:10How many women and children aren't sex trafficked,

02:12unlike the last administration?

02:14President Trump's policies are saving lives every day.

02:17And I'm — look, I wake up like a kid in a candy shop every day,

02:21because I'm — I'm working with this guy.

02:23And you know what?

02:24Every day is an adventure.

02:26Because I knew he's going to let us do what we do

02:28to not only secure the border,

02:30but remove millions of illegal aliens

02:32that Joe Biden led into this country.

02:40On top of the success we already had,

02:42the last administration,

02:44a half a million children were trafficked into this country.

02:47The last administration lost track of 300,000.

02:50Trump's already found thousands of these children.

03:02Some of these children were — some of the children were with family members.

03:05But some of the children were in sex trafficking and forced labor.

03:08Matter of fact, one person — we found — one male — had custody of over 20 migrant children, many females.

03:18And this administration allowed that to happen.

03:21President Trump and myself are not going to be satisfied

03:24until we find every single child in Sable.

03:27The last administration simply didn't give a shit.

03:36They didn't.

03:37And it's just terrible.

03:38I don't care what side of politics you're on.

03:40When you've got a child trafficking this country for forced labor and sex trafficking,

03:45all hands should have been on debt.

03:47Under President Trump, all hands are on debt.

03:50And look, I always get asked the question, why did they open the border up?

03:58Why did they do that?

03:59Why did they release people?

04:00Let me tell you the secret.

04:01They played the long game.

04:02Let millions of people cross the border, and let's release them.

04:05Let's put them in a hotel room at $500 a night, give them three meals a day,

04:10give them free medical care, and give them work authorization.

04:13That brought the whole world to the greatest nation on Earth.

04:16We left thousands of empty ice beds at $127 a night.

04:20Empty.

04:21Thousands of them.

04:22They released them to NGOs at $500 a night.

04:25Why did they do that?

04:26Because they knew if they're an icy tent to get a hearing within 40 days,

04:2990% lose their case, they get sent home.

04:32That is not what they wanted.

04:33They're praying the Lord.

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