‘He’s going back to Haiti’: Border czar reacts to furious migrant who said ‘I’m not going back to Haiti’
Donald Trump’s border czar had a simple response to a furious illegal alien who declared “f*** Trump, Biden forever” as he was arrested by immigration officials.
Donald Trump’s border czar has reacted to a furious illegal alien who declared “f**k Trump, Biden forever” and that he was “not going back to Haiti” as he was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) this week.
“Well he’s wrong — he’s going back to Haiti, I can tell him that,” Tom Homan told Fox News on Thursday.
The alleged Haitian gang member with 17 criminal convictions in recent years was one of a number of arrests witnessed by Fox News, which was invited to ride along with ICE agents in Boston, Massachusetts, a sanctuary city targeted under Mr Trump’s deportation operation.
“F**k Trump! You feel me?” the man yelled as he was placed into a car.
“Yo, Biden forever, bro! Thank Obama for everything he did for me, bro. I’m not going back to Haiti.”
Fox News reporter Bill Melugin witnessed ICE Boston make eight arrests including multiple MS-13 gang members, subjects of Interpol Red Notices, and murder and rape suspects, as part of the Trump administration’s pledge to begin by deporting the most serious criminal threats.
“Today was a good day,” said Patricia Hyde, acting field office director of ICE Boston’s Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO).
“Today we took several significant public safety threats out of our communities. Unfortunately, a lot were released by sanctuary policies. But we’re here to tell the Commonwealth and the rest of the country that we’re going to find them, whether they’re released or not.”
ICE also made what is known as a “collateral” arrest, where ICE arrests an illegal alien who wasn’t their initial target.
In that case, the illegal alien was with an MS-13 gang member who had been released by a sanctuary jurisdiction on Tuesday with an ICE detainer that was not honoured.
Mr Homan previously warned such arrests would happen in sanctuary jurisdictions — those that refuse to comply with federal immigration authorities.
“When we find the bad guy, there’s probably others, others that are in the United States illegally,” he said. “They may not be a criminal priority but we’re not walking away from them.”
Fox News reported that as ICE was arresting a violent illegal alien in one neighbourhood, a woman yelled out “thank you” to the agents.
The new administration has moved rapidly to fulfil Mr Trump’s promise of a historic mass deportation operation, after millions of people entered the country illegally under former President Joe Biden.
In the first days of the Trump administration, ICE has made more than 460 arrests of illegal aliens, including those with criminal histories that include sexual assault, domestic violence and drugs and weapons crimes. Arrests took place across the US including Illinois, Utah, California, Minnesota, New York, Florida and Maryland.
Agents arrested nationals from a slew of countries, including Afghanistan, Angola, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Senegal and Venezuela.
Mr Homan has promised to deport some 700,000 illegal aliens who have committed crimes from the US.
Earlier this week, the border czar said ICE officers had a “target sheet” of migrants with criminal records.
But officials have warned that the deportations will not exclusively target criminal threats.
Mr Trump promised during the campaign that on day one, he would launch “the largest deportation operation” in US history, surpassing 1954’s “Operation Wetback”, when President Dwight Eisenhower rounded up more than one million mostly Mexican migrants.
It’s not known exactly how many illegal aliens are living in the US without authorisation. A 2022 Pew Research Center estimate put the number at 11 million, or 3.3 per cent of the total population, although Republicans have maintained the numbers are far higher.
The American Immigration Council estimates that deporting more than 13 million people — 11 million as of 2022, plus 2.3 million who entered after January 2023 — would cost up to $US1.7 trillion, exacerbate labour shortages and devastate industries such as construction, agriculture and hospitality.
Mr Trump told NBC News in November it was “not a question of a price tag”.
“We have no choice,” he said. “When people have killed and murdered, when drug lords have destroyed countries, and now they’re going to go back to those countries because they’re not staying here. There is no price tag.”
Within hours of taking office for the second time, Mr Trump signed a flurry of executive orders aimed at tackling illegal immigration, declaring a “national emergency” at the southern border, deploying more troops and moving to declare Mexican drug cartels as foreign terrorist organisations.
He also ended so-called catch-and-release, banning Border Patrol from setting people free into the US to await immigration hearings.
— with Fox News
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