Border czar Tom Homan speaks at a White House event pushing the “Big, Beautiful Bill” with President Donald Trump:

TOM HOMAN, BORDER CZAR: Well, look, I think this issue of the big beautiful bill should be non-partisan. I don’t know how to tell- what the hell’s the matter with everybody up in Congress? People are dying every day. ISIS is arresting three times as many criminals than the Biden administration did. We’re taking public safety threats and national security threats off the street every single day. But we got over 600,000 illegal aliens with criminal histories walking the streets of this country. We got less than 5,000 deportation officers. This should be a no-brainer. The more resources we get, when we get this bill passed, we got more agents on the road. We buy more beds, we get more transportation flights. More agents means more bad guys arrested, taken off the streets of this country every single day. Every day we arrest a public safety threat or national security threat, this makes this country much safer. Who the hell would be against that? And I get irritated, I get pissed off because I’m sick of meeting angel moms and dads. You want to talk about family separation? They buried their children. So this- I’ve done this since 1984. I’ve worked for six different presidents. No one has had the success of the Trump administration. We got the most secure border in the history of this nation today. But we need more border wall. Border walls save lives. Women and children can’t get over that wall, which means they go to a place where there’s not a wall. What’s waiting on them? The men and women of the border patrol who take care of the humanitarian needs and save their lives. We already got fentanyl seizures down half. Fentanyl seizures should be a hundred percent. We should have zero fentanyl coming to this country. We need money to help secure that border at a higher level. Stop the fentanyl from coming in. Stop the sex trafficking of women and children. Stop the known suspected terrorists coming across that border. Right now, I was looking at the stats today, ICE is arresting a record number of known suspected terrorists in this country along with the FBI. With more money, we can arrest more of these people, make this country safer. This is a nonpartisan issue. Let’s make this country safe again. So to the Democrats and the Republicans and the independents, I don’t care who you’re from, pass the bill so we make this country safe, so we can stop the violence against ICE officers. Let’s make this country safe again, and without that bill, it’s going to be a hard road. We got a lot of people to look for, a lot of people to arrest, a lot of national security threats we know are in this country. We need to find them. We need more money to do that. We need more agents to do that. For God’s sake, let’s pass this bill and get this done. PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: He got so angry, he didn’t even shake my hand to look at me.

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