Tom Homan stresses the need to save 300,000 missing children in border crisis – Washington Examiner

Asher NotheisNovember 18, 2024

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Tom Homan, who has been nominated as the border⁣ czar by President-elect Donald Trump, emphasized the urgent need to locate⁣ and protect approximately 300,000 children who have gone missing amid the ⁢ongoing ⁣border crisis in the United States. During a Fox News appearance,⁤ Homan highlighted the alarming situation where over half a million ⁣children have reportedly been trafficked into ⁤the country, with many released to unvetted sponsors. He ⁣expressed concerns that some of these children might be in situations of forced labor or sex trafficking. ‍Homan outlined the ⁤Trump ‍administration’s⁣ plans, which include declaring ‍a national emergency ⁣to facilitate mass deportations of illegal immigrants, focusing first on national ⁢security threats and then on securing the border. He⁤ criticized ‍the Biden administration for a ⁢significant reduction in the removal of criminal aliens, pledging to empower U.S. ⁣Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in the upcoming term. Homan aims to continue the immigration policies from Trump’s first term, ‍including completing the construction of⁣ the border wall, citing its effectiveness.

Tom Homan stresses the need to save 300,000 missing children in border crisis

President-elect Donald Trump‘s pick for border czar, Tom Homan, underscored the need for the administration to relocate 300,000 missing children in the United States who have become lost amid the nation’s border crisis.

Trump announced Monday that his incoming administration will declare a national emergency to carry out mass deportations of illegal immigrants, which will include using military resources. In previewing the administration’s deportation plans, Homan revealed the three tiers that will guide these deportations, the first being removing those who are national security threats and the second being securing the border.

“The third rail is we got over 300,000 missing children,” Homan said on Fox News’s America Reports. “Over half a million children have been trafficked into the United States. This administration released them to unvetted sponsors, and they can’t find 300,000. And based on 3 1/2 decades, some of these children are in forced labor. We already found some in forced labor, some of them are in for sex trafficking, some of them are with pedophiles. We need to save these children. That’s going to be the third rail.”

Homan continued that part of the priority in removing criminals and national security threats is due to how the Biden administration’s removal of “criminal aliens” decreased by 70% compared to the first Trump administration. As such, the next Trump administration will “take the handcuffs off” of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to allow the agency to secure the country.

Additionally, Homan stated that part of the goal in the Trump administration’s focus on clamping down on illegal immigration is to “finish the job we started” in the first term, contending the U.S. had a “45-year low” on illegal border crossings under Trump’s watch. Another goal for Trump is to finish the construction of the border wall, stating the wall worked wherever it was built.

Last week, Homan informed government officials opposed to the incoming Trump administration’s plans for mass deportations to “get the hell out of the way.” Several Democratic officials, including Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D-IL) and Boston Mayor Michelle Wu, who confirmed Monday that she will run for reelection in 2025, have stated they have no plans to cooperate with the Trump administration with its deportations.

Republican National Committee Co-Chairwoman Lara Trump has rebuked the rising “fearmongering” from the Democratic Party over its deportation plans, stressing that criminals would be “prioritized.”