In spite of the liberal media trying to convince viewers that the Donald Trump administration only promised to deport convicted criminals, President Trump and other officials have long openly talked up the deportation of anyone in the country illegally.
MSNOW's Chris Jansing Reports
July 9, 2024
2:14 p.m
CHRIS JANSING: Republicans have now released their 2024 platform, and it sounds a lot like what you'd hear at a Trump rally. It includes the largest deportation program in American history.
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Republican National Convention
July 18, 2024
11:38 p.m.
DONALD TRUMP: The Republican platform promises to launch the largest deportation operation in the history of our country, even larger than that of President Dwight D. Eisenhower from many years ago. You know, he was a moderate, but he believed very strongly in borders. He had the largest deportation operation we've ever had.
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CBS's 60 Minutes
October 27, 2024
TOM HOMAN, BORDER CZAR: If I'm in charge of this, my priorities are public safety threats and national security threats first.
CECILIA VEGA: "First" implies others follow, though. Right?
HOMAN: Absolutely.
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VEGA: So you're carrying out a targeted enforcement operation, Grandma's in the house, she's undocumented. Does she get arrested, too?
HOMAN: It depends. Let the judge decide. We're going to remove people that a judge has ordered deported.
VEGA: Homan's suggestion that Grandma might face arrest would mark a major shift in policy.
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Fox News at Night
November 12, 2024
11:32 p.m.
TOM HOMAN, BORDER CZAR: The President said under this mass deportation operation that we're going to prioritize public safety threats and national security threats because they pose the greatest danger to this country. It makes sense. And we got plenty of them to go find because the last count was there were over 700,000 illegal aliens with a criminal conviction on their record. On top of that, we look at the gotaways -- 2.2 million people. How many of them are criminals? Most of them probably are -- that's why they didn't want to turn themselves in and to get released. They didn't want to get fingerprinted and vetted.
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NewsMax's America Right Now
November 23, 2024
9:23 a.m.
HOMAN: The President has been very clear. Public safety threats and national security threats are going to be the priority right out of the gate along with fugitives. By fugitives what I mean is the over one million illegal aliens in this country who had due process at great taxpayer expense, were ordered removed by an immigration judge, but defied that order and became fugitives.
So, yeah, we're going to concentrate on the worst first, public safety threats. And we know there's well over a million of them, that's what we know about, and there's a lot that we don't know because we got over two million gotaways -- two million known gotaways under this administration. And these are people that paid more to get away because they didn't want to be vetted -- they didn't want to be fingerprinted. So these are going to be trouble cases.
These could be people from terrorist-sponsoring countries. They could be gang members, they could be people who are sex-trafficking women and children, they could be the ones carrying fentanyl, and they can be the bad guys. So we got to uncover who this two million people are and try to find them also.
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NBC's Meet the Press
December 8, 2024
KRISTEN WELKER: Let's talk about mass deportation, one of your big agenda items. You've talked about prioritizing people who have criminal histories.
TRUMP: Correct.
WELKER: But is it your plan to deport everyone who is here illegally over the next four years.
TRUMP: Well, I think you have to do it, and it's a -- it's a very tough thing to do. It's -- but you have to have -- you know, you have rules, regulations, laws -- they came in illegally.
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WELKER: Is it realistic to deport everyone who's here illegally?
TRUMP: We have no choice. First of all, they're costing us a fortune, but we're starting with the criminals, and we got to do it. And then we're starting with others, and we'll see how it goes.
WELKER: Who are the others?
TRUMP: Others are other people outside of criminals.
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CNN's The Source
December 18, 2024
9:27 p.m.
KAITLIN COLLINS: There are different estimates of how many undocumented immigrants are in the country that -- and you have said everyone is on the table.
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HOMAN: We want to arrest as many people as we can that are in the country illegally -- again, based on prioritization. We want to arrest every criminal, every gang member that's here illegally that's a public safety threat. We want to arrest every fugitive -- those who had due process at great taxpayer expense and have an order of deportation but didn't leave and became a fugitive. We have over 1.5 million of those. And, look, we got millions of people who are illegally -- I've said, "If you're here illegally, you're not off the table." I mean, it's a violation of the law -- it's a crime to enter this country illegally.
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Fox's The Ingraham Angle
January 23, 2025
7:22 p.m.
BILL MELUGIN, FOX REPORTER: And that's what Tom Homan has been warning about, telling these sanctuary cities, "If you don't hand these people over to us and you just let them back out into the community, we're going to have to go in -- we're going to go find them. And if we find them with other people who aren't our targets and they're in the U.S. illegally, we're going to take them, too." And that's exactly what happened yesterday -- sanctuary policy out here caused that MS-13 gang member's friend or acquaintance to also get arrested by ICE.
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ABC's This Week
January 26, 2025
MARTHA RADDATZ: Were all the people arrested on day one, as far you you know, convicted criminals or those who had been arrested before?
HOMAN: No. Let me explain that. There are collateral arrests. Where do collateral arrests happen? Sanctuary cities. And this is important we understand that. Sanctuary cities lock us out of their jails, so instead of ICE being able to arrest the bad guy -- the criminal alien -- in the safety and security of a jail with the officer safe, the alien safe, and the public safe; sanctuary cities release them back into the community which endangers the community. You're putting the criminal alien back in the community. But when we find him, he's going to be with others most likely. Many times they're with others. If they're in the country illegally, they're coming, too.
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CBS Mornings
January 29, 2025
7:31 a.m.
TONY DOKOUPIL: President Trump's long-promised immigration crackdown now in action. Major Garrett rode along with federal agents and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem on a series of raids yesterday here in New York City. It was meant to be a targeted operation, but, as the administration has warned, other people did get swept up as well.
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Fox's The Faulkner Focus
March 13, 2025
11:17 a.m.
HARRIS FAULKNER: ICE arrested nearly 33,000 illegal aliens during President Trump's first 50 days in office. Some 14,000 are convicted criminals -- nearly 10,000 have pending charges.
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BROOKE TAYLOR: The senior DHS and ICE officials also giving us new arrest numbers, as you mentioned. Check this out. During President Trump's first 50 days in office, ICE arrested roughly 32,800 illegal aliens. Of those arrested, senior leaders say 14,000 were convicted criminals.
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Fox's America's Newsroom
September 9, 2025
10:10 a.m.
TRICIA MCLAUGHLIN, ASSISTANT DHS SECRETARY: Seventy percent of those illegal aliens who have been arrested under this administration have prior convictions or pending criminal charges. And that doesn't even include those who have been arrested who don't have rap sheets in the U.S. but have rap sheets in their countries of origin. They might be a gang member - they might have a human rights violation against them.
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Fox's The Ingraham Angle
7:45 p.m.
October 28, 2025
HOMAN: Look at the data -- 70 percent of everybody they're arresting is a criminal. That's just a stone cold fact. The other 30 percent are national security threats and those with final orders that ICE is required by statute to enforce.
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Fox's America's Newsroom
January 19, 2026
9:08 a.m.
McLAUGHLIN: The facts on the ground, Dana, is that 70 percent of those that have been arrested under the Trump administration -- seven, zero -- either have prior criminal convictions or pending criminal charges against them. That does not even include known or suspected terrorists, which we've arrested over 1,000. That doesn't even include gang membership. That doesn't even include being wanted in your country of origin or a third country.
