Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Director Tom Homan shared some tragic news on Friday.
At the event, he shared the story of ICE recently rescuing a pregnant 14-year-old girl who had been trafficked.
“We just found one two days ago. A 14-year-old little girl. Living with two adult males. Who trafficked her. We found her, she’s pregnant. From trafficking being forced into prostitution. 14 years old. We are taking care of her. Both physically and mentally,” Homan said.
“Despite what the media says, we are not heartless. We care about these kids. I am a father. That s**t (human trafficking) is happening every day. We are going to put an end to it. Everything we can do,” Homan added.
Since President Donald Trump made his return to the White House, the change in illegal immigrant encounters at the border has been dramatic.
Homan said that he believes there are at least 20 million illegal aliens in the country, including about 700,000 with criminal charges “walking the streets.”
“Look, I started in the Border Patrol in 1984. I’ve been at this for over 40 years. I’ve worked for six presidents, starting with Ronald Reagan. Every president I ever worked for took border security seriously because you can’t have national security if you don’t have strong border security. We got to know who’s coming in, what’s coming in, where it’s coming in, why it’s coming in, right?” Homan said.
“Even President Obama and President Clinton took some steps to secure the border because they understood national security was important. Joe Biden was the first president in the history of this nation who came into office and unsecured the border on purpose. That’s just a fact. We handed the Biden Administration — after President Trump’s first administration, we handed the Biden Administration the most secure border in my lifetime, and he unsecured it on purpose,” he added.
Homan continued, “Now, President Trump and this administration here, the success is unprecedented. We beat Trump’s first administration on border success. Border numbers are at historic law. Today, as I’m standing here, we have the most secure border in the history of this nation. And the numbers prove it.”
Earlier this month, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin joined Fox News to share some sad news about the fate of thousands of migrants who tried to cross illegally into the U.S. under President Joe Biden’s ‘open border’ policies.
Mullen told viewers a simple truth—that each illegal migrant death that occurred under Biden’s watch didn’t have to happen.
“And by the way, this same authorities that the president has used to secure the border, President Biden could have done the same thing but chose not to,” Mullen, who was a GOP senator from Oklahoma during Biden’s term, said.
“So every single death, so when you said a while ago that the blood is on their hands, you are absolutely correct because every single death that has occurred by an illegal that was released into this country underneath the Biden Administration, every one of those is 100% preventable,” Mullen told host Sean Hannity.
“And the Biden Administration turned a blind eye and thank God the American people put President Trump back in office,” he said.
The deadly toll of Biden’s insanely lax border policies was known by him and members of his administration while they were still in office, yet they chose not to act on it.
A 2023 report from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) revealed a shocking number of illegal migrant crossings since Biden reversed nearly all of President Trump’s border enforcement policies on his first day in office.
According to Just the News, which cited the ICE report, “the backlog of aliens inside the United States awaiting decisions has nearly doubled under President Joe Biden to more than 6 million while arrests of suspected terrorists and violent offenders have also exploded.”
The outlet added: “The year-end report from U.S. Customs and Immigration Enforcement released Friday showed nearly every measure of illegal immigration rose substantially in 2023, candidly admitting the southern border’s being overrun by millions of illegal crossers has taken a major toll on the agency.”
“While ICE carefully prioritized its resources to meet these evolving mission needs and agency personnel continued to perform at a high standard, these increased demands have strained a workforce that has remained relatively static for the past decade,” the report said, according to the outlet.
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The report is a warning for both liberal proponents of relaxed immigration enforcement and conservatives concerned about the nation’s security being compromised by Biden’s policies, which critics say have attracted millions to the country and placed a strain on cities like Chicago and New York City, which are thousands of miles away from the southern border.
Liberal activists are certain to be alarmed by the number of illegal aliens kept in detention: ICE reported the number exploded 40.1% from 26,299 last year to 36,845 at the end of the 2023 fiscal year that finished Sept. 30.
Meanwhile, the number of illegal aliens permitted into the country without being detained, usually with court dates far in the future, leapt 30.3 percent in 2023 to more than 6.2 million, nearly double the 3.26 million total in the last year of Donald Trump’s presidency.
The report said the vast majority of that total came from the Southwest border where illegal crossings have surged to as many as 12,000 or more a day.
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