Thomas Homan, who served as acting director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement under President Donald Trump, is an outspoken advocate for stronger border security. Homan spoke to The Daily Signal about the crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border and solutions for fixing it. A lightly edited transcript is below.
Rob Bluey: Why do we need to secure the border?
Tom Homan: We need to secure the border because we’re a sovereign nation. We have to protect our border. We are not a country without borders. This is not just about enforcing the law, it’s about saving lives. What’s happening on the border is not only a humanitarian crisis, it’s a national security crisis.
When the cartels move people across the border, even if they’re family units, they are tying up border control assets. A lot of the border is uncontrolled. It’s not being manned, which means the cartels are pushing drugs and bad people to areas that are unprotected. Not only that, people are dying. We already had two children die trying to cross this border.
If we had true border security, if we had a wall, if we enforce our laws the way they are written, enforcement to the fullest extent, you’ll not only save lives, you’ll secure this nation against harm.
Bluey: What are the three things the Trump administration can do right now to help fix this problem?
Homan: The three things we can do right now to address the border crisis is [first,] change the asylum laws. The threshold to pass your first interview on the border is too low.
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2 comments:
Mr Homan needs to speak on a special aired by all the networks he has the facts not hype. He also needs to speak at length to the Congress and the Senate, so their is no media hype and blitz, real news by a real man who knows it all.
The new conservatism is ridiculous. Even if William F. Buckley showed up holding Minnie Pearls hat on HEE HAW people would not get or understand the principals and battles of the party. Politics has all become one butt hurt media war and junior High School election of favorites. Bush Jr. twice REALLY and then Obamarama and now tacky gilded Honey Boo Boo golden boy. It's all very farcical even more so that people buy into it.
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