Enhance Your English with U.S. Government News – Secretary Karoline Leavitt and Tom Homan Brief Members of the Media, 2025. 4. 28.

0:01 good to see you bright and early on this Monday morning as you know this week marks the first 100 days of the Trump 0:08 presidency and President Trump’s first 100 days have undoubtedly been the most monumental and historic of any 0:15 administration in American history president Trump has already delivered on hundreds of promises he made to the 0:22 American people and we will continue to talk about all of them throughout this week tomorrow I will host a press 0:28 briefing at this same time bright and early again to highlight the Trump administration’s economic 0:34 accomplishments with our Treasury Secretary Scott Bessant and tomorrow night President Trump will travel to 0:40 Michigan to discuss all that he has achieved on behalf of the American people on Wednesday the president will 0:47 host an open press cabinet meeting where each cabinet member will discuss their success thus far and their plans for the 0:54 future today we kick off 100 Day week with a focus on the president’s historic effort to secure our southern border 1:02 later this afternoon President Trump will sign an executive order on law and order and another executive order on 1:08 sanctuary cities the first EO will strengthen and unleash America’s law enforcement to pursue criminals and 1:14 protect innocent citizens the second EO is centered around protecting American communities from criminal aliens and it 1:21 will direct the attorney general and secretary of homeland security to publish a list of state and local 1:27 jurisdictions that obstruct the enforcement of federal immigration laws after these are signed the president 1:33 will have signed more than 140 executive orders already rapidly approaching the 1:38 total number signed by the Biden administration over the course of four years in office speaking of Joe Biden it 1:45 was his o awful open border policies that recklessly allowed more than 10 million illegal aliens to invade the 1:52 United States over the past four years innocent Americans like Lake and Riley Jocelyn Nungre Rachel Morren and so many 1:59 others were viciously murdered at the hands of these illegal aliens as a result of Biden’s dereliction of duty 2:06 that’s why one of President Trump’s central campaign promises was to secure the border and end this invasion in just 2:12 under 100 days 99 now to be exact the president has overwhelmingly delivered 2:18 on that promise America’s borders are now secure because of President Trump he 2:23 has restored the rule of law enforced our immigration laws and defended America’s sovereignty the president 2:30 immediately declared a national emergency on the southern border deployed the US military and border patrol to repel the invasion and ended 2:37 reckless catch and releaselease policies the results have been nothing short of extraordinary between President Trump’s 2:44 inauguration in April 1 of this month only nine illegal aliens were released into the United States a staggering 2:52 99.99% decrease from the more than 184,000 illegal aliens who were released 2:58 into the country under Biden during the same period last year the number of unaccompanied illegal alien children 3:04 arriving at the border has also hit a record low total attempted illegal crossings at the southwest border hit a 3:11 record low in February only to fall to another new record low again last month 3:16 in March just listen to these incredible numbers in March 2024 under Joe Biden 3:22 Border Patrol encountered approximately 140,000 illegal aliens at the southwest 3:27 border one year later in March 2025 under President Trump Border Patrol 3:32 encountered just over 7,000 illegal aliens at the southwest border that’s another 95% decrease from the prior year 3:40 the first piece of legislation President Trump signed into law was the Lake and Riley Act which require requires illegal 3:47 aliens arrested or charged with theft or violence to be detained president Trump also reestablished the successful remain 3:53 in Mexico policy from his first term to ensure that aliens who arrive at our southern border and claim asylum are 3:59 returned to Mexico to await their hearings instead of being allowed into our country while they wait the 4:05 president has also restarted construction of his signature advanced border wall more than 85 n miles of new 4:11 border barrier are already in v various stages of construction and planning and border patrol in collaboration with the 4:18 department of defense and the great state of Texas have deployed 75 additional miles of temporary barriers 4:24 across the southern border the Trump administration as you know has also ended the disastrous CBP-1 app which Joe 4:30 Biden exploited to facilitate the migration of nearly 1 million illegal aliens into the country the Department 4:37 of Homeland Security has relaunched this as the CBP home app to provide illegal aliens in the US a straightforward way 4:43 to declare their intent to voluntarily depart for years Joe Biden’s weakness in open border policies allowed vicious 4:50 cartels to functionally control through a campaign of terror rape and brutal force nearly all illegal traffic across 4:57 the southern border president Trump has put a stop to this in record time he 5:03 designated these heinous cartels as foreign terrorist organizations and invoked the Alien Enemies Act to 5:08 immediately apprehend detain and remove these massive threats who have flooded our country with deadly drugs violent 5:14 criminals and vicious gangs the Trump administration is working 24/7 to 5:20 successfully arrest and deport these illegal criminals and foreign terrorists from our communities we are in the 5:25 beginning stages of carrying out the largest deportation campaign in American history over this past weekend it was 5:32 announced that through Operation Title Wave a joint effort between ICE Miami and Florida law enforcement agencies 5:38 nearly 800 illegal aliens were arrested during the first four days alone among 5:44 those arrested were a Colombian murderer alleged MS-13 and 18th Street gang members and a Russian with a red notice 5:51 for men manslaughter and on the other side of the country in the early Sunday morning hours DOJ and DHS together 5:58 launched a joint raid of an illegal alien underground nightclub used by Trenda Araua in Colorado Springs 6:05 Colorado dhs took took more than 100 illegal aliens into custody and many 6:10 drugs and weapons were also seized operation Title Wave is a preview as what is what is to come around this 6:15 country largecale operations that employ our state and local enforcement partners to get criminal illegal aliens off our 6:23 streets as always President Trump and our entire administration are grateful for the courageous law enforcement 6:28 officers who are putting their lives on the line every single day to protect their fellow Americans and to keep our 6:34 country safe after four years of being vilified and hamstrung by the Biden administration heroic ICE and CBP 6:40 officers finally have a president who has their backs and is allowing them to do the jobs they signed up to do there’s 6:46 no person who can attest to that more than our incredible borders are here at the White House Tom H homeman who has 6:52 dedicated his professional career to protecting our country and enforcing the law i will let Tom deliver some short 6:58 remarks and then we’ll open it up for questions today thanks for being here Tom thank you just a few things look I 7:04 started in Bord Patrol in 1984 i’ve been at this for over 40 years i worked for 7:09 six presidents starting with Ronald Reagan every president ever worked for took border security seriously because 7:16 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 7:22 where it’s coming in why it’s coming in right even President Obama and President Clinton took some steps to secure the 7:28 border because they understood national security was important joe Biden was the first president in the history of this 7:34 nation who came in office and unsecured a border on purpose that’s just a fact 7:41 we handed the Biden administration after uh President Trump’s first administration we handed the Biden 7:46 administration the most secure border in my lifetime and he unsecured it on 7:52 purpose now President Trump and and this administration here the success is 7:57 unprecedented we beat Trump’s first administration on border success border 8:04 numbers are historic low today as I’m standing here we have the most secure border in the history of this nation and 8:12 the numbers prove it president Trump’s policies are saving lives every 8:17 day there’s been studies done that says 31% of women that make that journey through the cartels get sexually 8:24 assaulted when President Trump has illegal immigration down 96% when 96% 8:30 less people are coming how many women aren’t being sexually assaulted by the cartels how many children aren’t dying 8:36 making that journey how many women and children aren’t being sex trafficked into this nation how many known 8:42 inspected terrorists aren’t making this country how many pounds of fentanyl isn’t getting to this country to kill 8:48 young Americans how many women and children aren’t sex trafficked under Joe Biden sex 8:55 trafficking is up 600% we had 4,000 aliens dying making that journey we had 9:00 a quarter million Americans dead from fentanyl that came across an open border president Trump’s policy saves lives 9:07 every day even the border wall saves lives the people want to hate on the border wall every place a border barrier 9:13 has been built illegal immigrations decline illegal drug flows decline but you know what no one talks about the 9:19 border wall saves lives because the most vulnerable the women and children can’t get over that wall which means they’re 9:25 going to a place where there’s not a wall and what’s waiting on them the men and women United States border patrol who will take care of those humanitarian 9:32 needs the health needs right off the bat we just went over the numbers and let me talk about a few numbers that are 9:39 important to me are important to me under Biden administration we averaged over 11,000 many days over 12,000 even 9:47 some days 15,000 illegal entrance in the United States 9:52 15,000 you know what the number was last 24 hours 9:59 178,000 to 178 unprecedented success on average day in Biden 10:05 administration known gotaways people we knew cross the border because they’re on video drone traffic or sensor traffic 10:12 cross the c cross across the border weren’t apprehended weren’t fingerprint and weren’t vetted average day under Joe 10:17 Biden more than 1,800 gotaways yesterday 10:23 38 38 too many we’ll get that to zero but we went from 1 to 38 and finally 10:31 that was said earlier on the first 100 days or was actually January 20th to April 10:38 1st last year 184,000 illegal aliens were released into the United 10:44 States under this administration nine four of them were material witnesses and 10:49 a criminal investigation we need them here to testify in a serious criminal trial four was extreme medical condition 10:55 we couldn’t return them because they’re in such bad shape and one was humanitarian issue 11:01 this is unprecedented success the border secure president 11:07 Trump saving lives president Trump has proven no one does this better than 11:12 President Trump there is no equal is not even close so God bless the men and women of Bor Patrol god bless the men 11:19 and women of ICE who strap a gun to the hip every day put on a Kevlar vest to not only secure our board and protect 11:25 our national security but the ICE agents in the interior they’re they’re removing public safety threats and national 11:30 security threats every day while you’re all sleeping at 2 3:00 in the morning 11:36 there are men and women out there enforcing the law and making this country safe again and we’re going to keep doing it 11:43 full speed ahead so I’ll leave with that awesome thank you Tom and thanks for all your great efforts we do want to open it 11:50 up to questions if you have border related questions for Mr h home homeman and I’m also happy to take any non-border related questions i’m happy 11:55 to take border questions too but Tom is here offering his time so we encourage you to ask him questions we’ll start 12:00 with our new media seat today as always Rogan O’Hanley former Hollywood entertainment lawyer i didn’t know that 12:06 rogan who got fed up with the far-left ideologies of California now posts conservative political commentary online 12:12 for his more than 7 million followers across all major platforms he joins us today from the great state of Florida 12:19 why don’t you kick us off today Rogan thank you Caroline uh in Trump’s first 99 days we’ve seen a coordinated assault 12:25 on the rule of law by radical judges who are thwarting his agenda with an unprecedented number of national 12:31 injunctions these judges are providing more due process to violent MS-13 in Trendo Ara illegal aliens than they did 12:38 for American citizens who peacefully protested on January 6th as Steven Miller has highlighted it would be 12:44 utterly ridiculous to have full trials and appeals for the more than 15 million illegal aliens that came across our 12:49 border under Joe Biden many are now calling for Trump to circumvent these 12:55 radical judges and consider suspending the writ of habius corpus solely for these illegal aliens in accordance with 13:01 the terms of article 1 section 9 of the United States Constitution which explicitly allows for such a measure 13:07 when there is a rebellion or invasion there’s strong precedent for this action being that it was exercised by three of 13:14 our greatest presidents abraham Lincoln Ulissiz Srant and Democrat’s favorite president of all time 13:21 FDR all three of which are not only celebrated by historians but are immortalized on our national currency 13:27 with their faces on there furthermore all three used it against American citizens where in this instance we would 13:33 only be using it against illegal aliens i think almost every reasonable American would agree that 15 million illegal 13:39 aliens coming across our border under Joe Biden counts as an invasion especially since many as you highlighted 13:45 are now robbing assaulting raping and killing American citizens historic 13:51 assaults on our republic require reciprocal action from our government can you please let us know if and when 13:57 the Trump administration is planning to suspend the writ of havius corpus to circumvent these radical judges who are 14:02 infringing on his article 2 powers and to start shipping out illegals in mass i 14:08 have not heard um such discussions take place but I can assure you that the president and the entire administration 14:13 are certainly open to all legal and constitutional remedies to ensure we can continue with the promise of deporting 14:20 illegal criminals from our nation’s borders and I also agree with the premise of your question which doesn’t happen in this room often but I do agree 14:26 with yours um it is absurd that the previous administration was allow to 14:32 allow 15 million at that we know about illegal aliens into this country um with 14:37 very little push back from our judicial branch um but this president is trying 14:43 to simply enforce our nation’s immigration laws and is uh facing roadblock after roadblock so we’re 14:48 compliant with court orders but as Tom Hman has said every day we’re going to continue to forge ahead with this mass 14:54 deportation campaign and the president is open to all remedies to do that thanks for being here today Rogan if I 14:59 can if I can also answer your question as far as the the judges look we just arrested a judge Pani for uh impeding 15:09 ICE enforcement removals i said from day one you don’t have to support uh ISIS’s 15:14 operations you can support sanctuary cities if that’s what you desire to do sanctuary 15:20 cities can stand aside and watch ICE keep their communities safe because any public official whether you’re mayor 15:25 city councilman or governor their number one responsibility is protection of communities and ICE has been clear we’re 15:31 targeting public safety threats and national security threats i can’t believe there’s any elected official and especially a judge that doesn’t believe 15:38 we should be doing that and they should be helping us but I said from day one you can sit aside and watch you can you 15:44 can argue against us all you want and protest all you want but when you cross that line I’ve said this a thousand 15:49 times when you cross that line to impedement or knowingly haring concealing an illegal alien mice you 15:56 will be prosecuted judge or not and as far as releasing so many people you know 16:01 you know why the B administration released millions of people in the United States no one ever talks about I’ll talk about it why did they release 16:07 people into the interior United States and put rather than put them into an ice bed why not put them in an empty ice bed 16:14 at $127 a night rather than in a hotel room at 500 bucks a night they did it on 16:19 purpose because when you put them in ICE detention bed they get a hearing in 35 days court records show nine out of 10 16:26 people claim asylum get order removal they’re gone but if you release them and put them a hotel room at 500 bucks a 16:32 night their hearings could be five seven nine years you pull out all appeals and what are they hoping for then that 16:38 another Democrat administration’s in power they can warrant amnesty to millions this is about selling this 16:45 country out for future political power that’s what it was the law clearly says 16:50 if you arrive at our border without proper documentation you shall be detained not maybe not think about it 16:57 shall and that’s what President Trump’s doing catch and release is over that’s what the law says that’s what we’ve done 17:05 mary go ahead a question on Ambigo Garcia if I can the president recently said when it comes to facilitating his 17:10 release he’s leaving that up to his lawyer so just to be clear have there been any negotiations between the US and 17:17 El Salvador over his release or facilitating his release i will tell you what the president of El Salvador told 17:22 all of you in the Oval Office el Salvador does not intend to smuggle a designated foreign terrorist back into 17:28 the United States he is an El Salvadorian national that is his home country that is where he belongs and um 17:35 the administration intends to um comply with what President Bllyi said of El 17:40 Salvador he does not intend to send that individual back so that’s a no there’s been no talks uh what I have told you is 17:46 that the president of El Salvador has made this quite clear kate um Caroline can you tell us more about the meeting 17:51 between President Trump and President Zilinski over the weekend did that meeting change anything did Trump leave 17:57 that meeting thinking any differently about negotiations and next steps on this look the president uh talked about 18:02 this after the meeting himself yesterday when he took questions from reporters on Air Force One um he thinks that he is uh 18:09 increasingly frustrated with leaders of both countries he wants to see a permanent ceasefire i understand 18:15 Vladimir Putin this morning offered a temporary ceasefire the president has made it clear he wants to see a 18:20 permanent ceasefire first to stop the killing stop the bloodshed um and while 18:25 he remains optimistic he can strike a deal he’s also uh being realistic as 18:30 well and both leaders need to come to the table to negotiate their way out of this and I do think that the president 18:36 meeting with President Zinsky shows that he is exuding a lot of effort and time into this because he wants to be a 18:41 peacemaker president which he was in his first term he intends to do that again um and this is an incredibly difficult 18:48 situation and conflict that President Trump inherited from President Biden who allowed this war to start in the first 18:53 place but he’s focused on solving this problem does anyone have border questions 18:59 sure thank you Caroline um if border crossings are at a record low uh why uh 19:04 should it still be considered an emergency 19:12 it’s because of the what has happened on the last administration we got to ensure that not 19:17 one ounce of fentanyl comes across the core to kill Americans the president has declared the uh the cartels Mexico 19:23 terrorist organization along with MS-13 TDA they killed a more Americans than every terrorist 19:29 organization in the world combined it’s an emergency we shut it down is it an emergency so the cartels are wiped off 19:35 the face of this earth president Trump’s committed to saving every life now I just 19:41 mentioned godaways 38 yesterday who are the who are the Godways where do they come from we had 19:49 over two million gotaways under Joe Biden’s administration why did two million people pay more to get away 19:54 under the Biden administration you pay a cartel this amount of money to cross the border cartel’s job ends at the border 20:01 just turn yourself in a green uniform get released in 24 hours get a free airline ticket to the city of your 20:07 choice get a free hotel room get free meals a day get free medical care get 20:13 work authorization in 90 120 days which is the real reason I came here why did two million people pay more to get 20:21 away because they didn’t want to be vetted they didn’t want fingerprint be fingerprinted we’ve arrested over 400 20:27 people on the terrorist watch list coming across the southern border in four years how many of two million came How 20:33 many two million came from country sponsoring terror you think is zero then you’re 20:39 ignorant this is the biggest national security fy this country’s ever seen this is the border emergency until we 20:45 end it and all of it we’re making good strides but right now it’s still emergency till we shut it down go ahead 20:51 uh this is a question for Mr hman um late last week uh there were three US citizen children who were removed with 20:57 their mothers who were in the United States illegally um there have been a federal judge in Louisiana who was 21:03 appointed by uh President Trump said that he was concerned that there was quote no meaningful process are you 21:10 concerned that due process at least for the US citizen children is being flouted and that the speed at which uh the 21:17 enforcement is being done could lead to errors as was the case in the Kilmar ago 21:22 Garcia case and then also if you could give an update on the deportation numbers under this administration and whether you’re pleased with them first 21:29 of all I I don’t accept the term error in Ambro Garcia there was an oversight 21:35 there was there was a withholding order but things have changed the facts around the withholding order has changed he is 21:40 now a terrorist withholding order set aside and the game he was fearing from being removed also no longer exists so 21:46 the facts around that case are totally different i’ll let the lawyers litigate that but as far as the US 3C kids I’d 21:53 said from day one that if you enter this country legally it’s a crime if you remain in this country legally and you 21:59 ignore a judge’s order about self about deporting if you choose to have US citizen child knowing you’re in this 22:05 country legally you put yourself in that position you put your family in that position what we did is remove children 22:12 with their mothers who requested the children depart with them this was a parental decision parental one parenting 22:18 101 the mothers made that choice and I tell you what if we didn’t do it the story today be Trump administration 22:24 separating families again no we’re keeping families together so when a parent says “I want that I want my 22:30 two-year-old baby to go with me.” We made that happen they weren’t deported we don’t import US citizens the parents 22:36 made that decision not the United States government but but I don’t hear any questions about Lake Riley had a mother 22:43 she’s never She’s never going to see her child again rachel Morren she had five 22:48 children she you know those children never going to see the mom again this administration doing the right thing 22:54 every public safety threat we arrest from this country remove and remove them this country is much safer so parents will make a decision what happens to 23:00 their child having a US citizen child does not make you immune from our 23:05 laws if that’s the message we send the entire world enter the country legally it’s a crime don’t worry about it get 23:11 order removed by an immigration judge don’t worry about it no one’s looking for you and have a US citizen child and 23:17 you’re immune from our laws you’ll never go and fix the border people will keep putting themselves harm’s way more women 23:23 would die more children would die crossing this border we got a secure border by enforcing laws we’re not 23:28 making this up we’re enforcing laws under statute enacted by Congress and it’s the right thing to do can you give an update on the deportation numbers 23:34 under this administration mr what what are you asking for we just provided the numbers on the number of deportations that have occurred under this 23:40 administration whether you’re pleased with that last number I got was 139,000 23:48 deportation am I happy when numbers are good especially if you look at the ICE 23:53 numbers the ice the ICE arrest removals are far beyond a Biden well I read the media oh ICE the reortations are behind 24:00 Biden administration well why because they counted border removals we don’t have 10.5 million people crossing the 24:06 border we don’t have border removals so Joe Biden could have deported 5% of his 24:13 encounters and numbers will still be higher than us on the border removals because we have a secure border the most 24:18 secure border in the history of this nation compare apples to apples ice arrest and deportations are far more 24:24 than Joe Biden that’s right sure go ahead mr hman talking about the 24:30 border wall can you give us an update as far as how many miles are being built today and is Mexico paying for it as the 24:38 president said they were going to uh well first of all I’ll answer that question because I already answered it 24:43 in my opening remarks to date uh since January 1st there’s been more than 85 miles of new border wall construction in 24:50 various stages of that construction and planning um the president has made it clear to Congress that we want to see uh 24:57 more funding uh for not just border wall con uh construction but also to support our ICE agents and our border patrol 25:03 agents who are on the ground uh facilitating with this mass deportation effort so he’s clear that Mexico is not 25:08 going to pay for it is that is that what you’re saying let’s address that trump said Mexico pay for the wall they have 25:14 in a roundabout way have they not putting 10,000 military on the northern and southern border taking the action 25:20 they did remain in Mexico they didn’t have to do that they’re doing it putting military on the southern border have moved illegal immigration to a record 25:26 low we’re saving millions of dollars every day on detention transportation 25:32 removal proceedings we’ve more than made up for the cost of that wall because the actions of Mexico so so is Mexico 25:39 helping build that wall yeah because we’re saving so much money millions of dollars a day that we can afford to 25:44 build that wall so actually yes they’re helping to build a wall john thanks a lot Caroline mr hman a question for your 25:52 borders are can you give an estimate as to how many individuals are in the 25:57 United States illegally that’s number one and I’m sure you’re very familiar with that number an estimate and the 26:03 second question is I I have a list that the White House put out of individuals 26:08 100 ICE arrests since the beginning of the president’s term and the people are arrested for various very serious crimes 26:16 uh firstdegree murder convicted of rape convicted of murder and aggravated uh 26:21 burglary uh sexual assault of a child how many of the individuals that are in 26:27 the United States illegally are people like this really bad people 26:33 well first of all what how many illegal aliens I think in United States at least 20 million here’s where you count that 26:39 number we’ve been speaking about 12 million for 20 years we know we got 10.5 that we know of came to the border how 26:45 many don’t we know of i talk about known godways at 2 million how many unknown godways we have like between the big Ben 26:51 sector in Texas where there’s no technology how many thousand people cross are there we wouldn’t know we 26:57 would know now but you know so I I would get venture over 20 million but your question is last count we got last I 27:05 looked there was about 700,000 illegal aliens with criminal charges walking the streets of this country 27:12 700,000 and that’s what we’re looking for now that’s what we’re prioritizing them and national security threats we’ll 27:19 go to the back row thanks Caroline for Mr hullman i’m Taylor with Spectrum News we have a station up in Rochester New 27:25 York it was reported you’re visiting there tomorrow can you talk a bit about the purpose of your trip i know the Trump administration is suing the city 27:32 over its sanctuary city policies how the executive order Caroline alluded to ties into it and what your message is for 27:38 communities and community leaders who say we’re able to establish our own rules here we’re worried about this 27:44 input from the federal level can you talk a bit about that well same thing same thing I talked about earlier i 27:50 don’t think any elected mayor any elected governor should um want public 27:55 safety threats those illegally in United States public safety threats walking through the community and what happened 28:02 in Rochester um HSI agent called for emergency 28:07 assistance officers of Rochester PD responded to a call from emergency assistance from a federal law 28:13 enforcement off from from a federal law enforcement officer they responded then they got disciplined 28:21 i don’t think anybody can come up with one instance where an ICE agent morbid agent didn’t respond to emergency call 28:27 from assistance from any uh law enforcement agency cops need to help cops especially in emergency situation 28:34 but they got disciplined and I met those officers down in Nashville soon after i think it was a couple days after it and 28:40 I told them I stayed with them they did the right thing law enforcement responding to 28:46 emergency assistance from law enforcement so I’m going up there to support the men and women law enforcement the men and 28:52 women who carry that badge and gun every day they’re working the streets at 2 a.m while we’re all sleeping i’m going to 28:58 give my support and they just announced a lawsuit and that’s one of many sanctuary city is going to be sued on this administration for flouting 29:04 immigration law i mean the law is clear and they’re violating it and this administration is 29:10 going to take actions i’m going up to show my support of men and women law enforcement i started as a cop and the 29:15 community i’m showing support for them because the community wants your police officers to be officers too the 29:20 communities don’t want public safety threats walking around their communities either and that’s what it’s all about and that’s why I’m going 29:29 Mr how close are you to uh housing migrants at US DoD facilities like Fort 29:36 Bliss in Texas well we’re already housing at Guantanamo 29:44 port Bliss is is being ramped up so in the very near future I I don’t have a timetable because things need to be done 29:50 construction needs to be done we’re making sure the facilities are ready to accept we’re making make facilities are 29:55 able to care for the people that are going to be detained so I don’t know the timeline right now it’s it changes every 30:02 day because of various issues but we’re working on it are you intending to hold families there including families with 30:08 American citizen children family residential centers are for families they’re not jails they’re open air 30:14 campers built for families which means they have child psychologists they have pediatricians and why family residential 30:21 centers because we want to make sure that child is with a parent unlike the last administration who stopped DNA 30:29 testing who many investigations of children being smuggled in the country with some that wasn’t related to him 30:35 claiming to be a parent so we’re going to make sure children are with parents we’re going to make sure that’s actually 30:40 a family and that child ain’t being trafficked that’s the main reason question regarding the executive order 30:46 on sanctuary cities is the administration uh planning to pursue any more investigations or prosecutions like 30:52 was done against the judge in Wisconsin against local uh officials well we’d 30:58 have to defer you to the Department of Justice obviously for specific prosecutions or cases against 31:03 individuals but as I said in my remarks the executive order the president will sign later this afternoon does direct 31:09 the attorney general and also uh Christine Gnome our great secretary of homeland security to provide a list of 31:15 sanctuary cities in which uh local uh officials are not complying with this 31:21 federal order and are not complying with federal immigration laws um it’s quite simple obey the law respect the law and 31:28 don’t obstruct federal immigration officials and law enforcement officials when they are simply trying to remove 31:34 public safety threats uh from our nation’s communities the American public don’t want illegal alien criminals in 31:40 their communities they made that quite clear on November 5th and this administration is determined to uh 31:45 enforce our nation’s immigration laws and we’re happy to provide the text of that executive order and as I said the 31:50 president will be signing it later this afternoon sure excuse me uh I want to talk about farm 31:56 workers the president said earlier this month that there could be leniency for some undocumented farm workers i’m 32:01 wondering where do things stand with that and I’m also wondering does that at all undermine his message on immigration that it’s okay for some undocumented 32:08 people to be in the US but maybe not others well the president was referring to our H-1B and H1A visa programs uh and 32:15 there have been no final decisions on that at all but the president I think what he was intended to speak about what 32:20 he was speaking about is ensuring that we have a clean legal immigration system 32:25 that is being respected and obeyed and the mass amount of illegal immigration 32:30 that we’ve seen over the past four years in our country completely undermines our legal immigration system those seeking 32:36 citizenship but also those coming here on a visa to legally and lawfully work and the president wants to make sure 32:42 that those uh programs are respected reagan thanks Carol my question is for 32:48 Tom tom Reagan Ree with the Daily Caller uh over the weekend ICE arrested two illegal immigrants for allegedly 32:54 stealing Secretary Gnome’s purse over the weekend what can you tell us about these individuals immigration history as 32:59 well as their criminal history i I don’t have the criminal history but 33:06 I know the one who stole the purse is supposedly in the country legally but you know pick the wrong person to steal 33:12 first from i mean Secretary Gnome’s a strong strong secretary i know I’ve been talking about the success of men and 33:18 women of the Bor Patrol and ICE but under her strong leadership she’s a game changer so I’m happy to work with her 33:25 despite the media i’ve read that me and Christy Nome are have differences me and Christy Nome are attached to the hip 33:30 there’s no daylight between us we’re both going to push the president’s agenda she’s a strong secretary and I’m 33:36 glad she’s in here and I’m glad what again that illegal picked the wrong picked the 33:42 wrong person steal first from Mary Margaret go ahead thank you Caroline i have two questions one for Mr hman one 33:48 for you on the White House correspondent center i’d like to start with you though Tom Hman this list has a very high 33:53 number of sexual assaults on a child can you comment on that and why there’s so many crimes against children committed 34:00 by illegals in this country i I I don’t know why it’s sick it’s the 34:07 worst crime in the world when you when you sexually assault a child i mean the most innocent of us all but that’s why I 34:13 made a statement that one time I was going to go to Boston bring hell with me and the media went crazy at times going 34:19 Boston bring hell with them i was going to bring hell to illegal alleys that raped children there’s not more heinous 34:26 crime and as you can see the amount of child rapists we’ve arrested under this administration that could have been 34:32 arrested under Biden administration they were out there they had their final orders out there but they didn’t go look for them they were too busy releasing 34:39 millions of of illegal aliens in this country and the numbers prove it their the removal numbers of 34:45 criminals was the lowest ice had the lowest number of removals in the history of ICE under Joe at the same time you 34:51 had historic illegal immigration on the board ice had the lowest numbers in the history of the agency that shows the 34:58 difference between two administration we’re looking for every one of them people want to know okay when am I going to retire for the third time i’ll retire 35:05 when every public safety threat national security threat child rape is eradicated from this country that’s when I’ll rest 35:12 thank you so much and then Caroline really quick uh Alex Thompson said at the White House Correspondent Center and 35:17 I’m going to read his quote “President Biden’s decline and its cover up by the people around him is a reminder that 35:22 every White House regardless of the party is capable of deception we myself included miss a lot of this story and 35:29 some people trust us less because of it.” Can you comment on those remarks and whether you agree with that 35:34 assessment i do agree with that assessment uh from Alex Thompson who I understand won an award for writing a 35:40 story uh months and perhaps years after the American people already knew that story to be true uh millions of 35:47 Americans watched our mentally incompetent president struggle with his day-to-day duties of this office we 35:52 watched our country be ran into the ground as a result and nobody in the media wanted to write about that talk 35:59 about it there were many um many reporters I will say uh right-leaning reporters uh who did talk about that who 36:06 didn’t get awards didn’t get coverage in fact they were lambasted for their coverage and I remember being on 36:11 President Trump’s campaign talking about Joe Biden’s clear mental incompetence and being accused by people in this room 36:18 of uh manufacturing deep fake videos trying to um persuade the public into 36:24 not believing what they saw with their own eyes for many years and I think it’s about time the legacy media finally 36:30 admits that was one of the greatest cover-ups and scandals that ever took place in American history and certainly 36:35 it did contribute to the decline in the trust that Americans have for the legacy media which by the way is why we’ve made 36:43 many changes to this briefing room in this White House it’s long overdue peter go ahead thank you a few things you guys 36:48 arrested a Milwaukee County Circuit judge for allegedly uh helping illegal 36:54 immigrants get away as you guys look at other judges would you ever arrest somebody higher up on the judicial food 37:02 chain like a federal judge or even a Supreme Court justice well that’s a hypothetical question again I’d defer 37:07 you to the Department of Justice for individuals that they are looking at or individual cases but let’s be clear 37:13 about what this judge did she obstructed federal law enforcement who were looking for an illegal alien in her courthouse 37:20 she showed that illegal alien the door to evade law enforcement officials that is a clear-cut case of obstruction you 37:26 don’t have to be a lawyer to understand that and so anyone who is breaking the law or obstructing federal law 37:32 enforcement officials from doing their jobs um is putting themselves at risk of being prosecuted absolutely you guys 37:38 have at least 18 written trade proposals we still don’t know who they are from or 37:45 what they contain what is the hold up with that there’s no holdup we’re working around the clock the trade team 37:51 is working all day i was on the phone late last night with Secretary Lutnik i was on the phone uh this weekend as well 37:57 with Secretary Besset i mean the entire team is working 24/7 to get these trade deals done and I think you’ll be hearing 38:04 more about them this week i don’t want to get ahead of the trade team or the president in announcing uh potential 38:09 deals but certainly I can assure the American public that this administration is full speed ahead in in cutting good 38:16 and fair trade deals on behalf of the American worker and one more after the president’s truth social post the Browns 38:22 finally took Shadur Sanders does the president think he deserves credit for Sanders getting 38:28 picked and does he think going to the Browns is better than being undrafted hey I’m going all I will say is the 38:37 president put out a statement and a few rounds later he was drafted so I think the facts speak for themselves on that 38:43 one peter we’ll go to the back row in the middle to the blonde yes Caroline hello um President Trump has said that 38:49 Secretary Hugsath will get it together does he think that Hexath doesn’t have it together right now look the president 38:54 has made his position on Secretary Huggth quite clear uh he absolutely has confidence in the secretary’s abil 39:00 ability to lead the Pentagon it’s why he nominated him for this position it’s why the Senate voted to confirm him in this 39:06 position um and look at the success that DoD has had thus far their successful operation against the Houthi terrorists 39:12 in the Middle East you look at the recruitment and retention levels for all branches of our armed forces are on the 39:18 incline which is exactly what this president intended to do secretary Hex has completely wiped out DEI from the 39:25 Pentagon as well and so um he’s going to remain focused on standing up for our war fighters on um implementing 39:32 President Trump’s peace through strength foreign policy agenda abroad and the president supports him in his role uh 39:38 sure many are many are wondering uh how these 10 or 20 million people are 39:44 working um is there some efforts to clamp down on employment because there some they’re working somewhere to keep 39:50 staying here the number of work site enforcement actions have tripled this year and it’s 39:57 going to triple again because in sanctuary jurisdictions especially if we can’t arrest a bad guy in the safety and 40:04 security of a county jail they’re going to release them into community that means we go into the community if we 40:10 can’t arrest them in the community we’ll arrest him at their work site we got to do what we got to do to rest public 40:16 safety threats there’s no sanctuary for public safety threats in this country so work site enforcement is going to 40:22 increase even more than it already has and another reason for work site the last administration stopped work 40:29 sites where’s the where’s the number one place we find victims of trafficking victims of forced labor trafficking in 40:36 work sites so not only we going to enforce law in work sites we’re going to save victims of trafficking that’s 40:41 another reason we’ve increased work site enforcement awesome well go ahead Brian 40:46 sure we’ll take one more question thank you this is for Mr holman uh we all walk by these heinous yard signs that along 40:55 Pebble Beach what is some of the feedback that your ICE agents are getting in the field from the community 41:02 as they remove these individuals from their families their neighborhood their schools their all the places in their 41:08 community what’s been the reaction that your ICE agents have gotten from the people who live amongst these 41:13 individuals the morale of ICE and Bord Patrol is at all-time high because they’re getting to 41:20 uphold the oath they took and they’re enforcing the law bord Patrol and the B 41:25 administration I met with hundreds of them they felt like Uber drivers and tourist agents these men and women join 41:32 the ranks of ICE and Bore Patrol to enforce the law make the community safer and protect national security i hear it 41:37 all the time there’s a lot of people in this country don’t like me i don’t care 41:43 when I walk to an airport I have many people walking up to me and thank me for my what I’m doing it and I’m not taking 41:49 credit for anything the success of the border and immigration enforcement it’s President Trump and the men and women 41:55 wearing that uniform god bless each and every one of them but I take a pre a 42:00 pleasure in seeing it because in 40 years of doing this job people always want to say “Why are you so emotional on 42:06 when you testify why are you so emotional on network?” Because if they wore my shoes for 40 years they’d understand why I’m emotional i’ve talked 42:12 to little girls as young as nine years old are raped multiple times by the cartel members and when you get to your 42:18 knees and you talk to that little girl and everything innocent and pure has been ripped from her when you listen to the lake and 42:24 rally 17 minutes that young lady fighting for her life don’t don’t just think okay a young woman died think of 42:30 how she died the terror that she went through and these children are sexually assaulted i stood in back with tractor 42:37 trailer and 19 dead people at my feet that baked to death 42:42 illegal immigration is not a victimous crime and so every sick person we take 42:47 off the streets especially child rapists it makes this country much safer every 42:52 illegal alien we arrest public safety threat one at a time makes this country safer but I got one thing I need to say 42:57 real quick before I leave take your notes from me Tom take my notes from me i’m going to read it don I don’t want a 43:04 misinterpretation while I’m reading you the registration requirements under 8 USC 1302 if you’re illegal alien United 43:10 States this message is for you you cannot hide from ICE we’re actively looking for you federal law requires 43:17 every alien in the United States who has been present in the United States more than 30 days need to 43:23 register for those 14 years or older you need to be fingerprinted with Department of Homeland Security federal law 43:30 requires every alien in the United States to tell DHS in writing if you have a change in address within 10 days 43:36 of changing the address failing to register with DHS and fail to tell DHS about your new address are criminal 43:43 offenses and they’re going to be treated as such starting 43:48 today make no mistake if you’re in the country illegally and you fail to do what the law requires we will prosecute 43:55 you you will go to jail then we’ll deport you second law penalties for 44:00 failure to depart 8 USC 1253 if you’re alien inside the United States 44:06 who has a final order this message is for you if you have a final order the Trump administration is committed to 44:12 enforcing our immigration laws especially for those aliens who have received final orders of deportation 44:18 there are currently around 1.4 million illegal aliens who’ve been ordered but 44:24 remain here in violation of the law we will aggressively prosecute consistent with long-standing 44:30 law those aliens for failing or refusing to depart or who takes other related 44:36 actions aimed at hindering their removal you cannot open the door you cannot answer our questions you cannot 44:43 open your car door you consider to evade law enforcement if you failed to leave 44:49 United States after receiving removal order we can and will issue monetary fines up to $998 a day 44:59 evading your arrest knowing you have a final order of removal is a criminal 45:04 offense we will prosecute then we’ll then we’ll deport you get your affairs 45:10 in order if you’re in the country illegally work with ICE go to CBP1 home 45:16 and leave on your own because we have to find you deport you and prosecute you 45:21 you’ll have a bar placed under you and you won’t come back to this country you won’t be able to come back on a visitor’s visa a tourist visa if you 45:28 have US citizen child can’t petition for you if you’re in this country will you get your affairs in order and work with 45:34 us and get yourself removed from this country that’s what law requires and we’re going to enforce that law awesome 45:40 thank you so much Tom you can get back to work now look he’s already leaving he’s got a lot to do a lot of illegal 45:46 immigrants to deport but um thanks everyone for joining us bright and early this morning as I said at the top we will do this again tomorrow to talk 45:53 about uh the economy which is another promise made and kept by the president and I’ll be joined by the secretary of 45:58 treasury Scott Bessant um 8:30 tomorrow morning today the president is welcoming the Super Bowl champions Philadelphia 46:04 Eagles we have any Philly fans that will be at 4:00 and then the president will sign those executive orders I spoke of 46:10 and a few others at 5:00 PM so we’ll see you all later have a great 46:16 day all right

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