Tom Homan, the tough Border Czar under President Trump, strongly reacted to a video that went viral showing a Haitian migrant adamantly declaring ‘I’m not going back to Haiti’ while being placed under custody.
‘Well, he’s wrong,’ Homan shot back in an appearance on Fox News. ‘He’s going back to Haiti.’
The video of the Haitian migrant resisting deportation circulated widely on social media last Thursday, depicting the moment he was apprehended by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents during a deportation operation.
The migrant, who reportedly has a lengthy criminal record, shouted ‘f*** Trump, Biden forever!’ as he was hauled into custody.
This incident took place amidst the Trump administration’s ongoing initiative to apprehend dangerous undocumented immigrants in sanctuary cities across the nation. The man featured in the video from Thursday is suspected to be the head of a Haitian gang.
The agitated Haitian migrant, who wasn’t named but who has 17 recent convictions, said he ‘ain’t going back to Haiti’ as he was placed in a police car. Fox News accompanied ICE during the roundups and shared footage of the arrests.
‘Thank Obama for everything he did for me, bro!’ the migrant added.
ICE officers in Boston said they also arrested multiple MS-13 gang members in the Boston raids, with Patricia Hyde, ICE Boston Acting Director, telling Fox News: ‘Today was a good day. Today we took several significant public safety threats out of our communities.’
Hyde continued in her remarks: ‘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.’
During the roundups, ICE also made one collateral arrest of an undocumented migrant, which Homan had previously warned would be a part of the ICE roundups after President Trump ordered mass deportations.
‘When we find the bad guy, there’s probably others. Others that are in the United States illegally. They may not be a criminal priority but we’re not walking away from them,’ he said.
Vice President JD Vance reacted to the Haitian migrant’s outburst, writing on X: ‘An illegal alien with 17 criminal convictions really hates President Trump for sending him back to Haiti.
‘He’s grateful to Biden for letting him come here. I’m glad we’re deporting him. Do you agree or would you like him as your neighbor?’
The Boston ICE raids come as Denver, a Democrat-run sanctuary city, announced it will cooperate with the Trump administration’s plans for undocumented immigrants.
Denver Mayor Mike Johnston said the city will cooperate with ICE agents in the cases of violent criminals.
‘The whole state is bound by our state law in this, which is pretty consistent in some of these practices like everywhere in the state, we don’t honor ICE detainers,’ Johnston told FOX31.
‘If ICE calls and says, ‘Will you hold someone for three more days?’ That doesn’t happen in Douglas County or Yuma or in Denver. A lot of these practices are similar statewide, but we think ours finds a common-sense balance of making sure we’re not having our local police doing federal law enforcement, that’s not our job, we’re not going to do ICE’s job for them.
‘But, if they call for information on folks we have in custody, we’ll let them know when we’re releasing them.’
Federal immigration agents started rounding up undocumented immigrants in the Denver area, following through on a campaign promise by the Trump Administration to deport migrants who have broken the law, DailyMail.com exclusively revealed.
Arrests began on Monday, when President Trump took the oath of office, and have spread throughout the state.
ICE in the Rocky Mountain State has been detaining migrants with pending criminals cases, police sources confirmed.
‘ICE agents are doing their job– the job they should have been doing for the last four years,’ former Colorado Immigration Enforcement director John Fabbricatore told DailyMail.com.
‘This is an all-hands-on-deck situation where they are using all the agents they have at their disposal.’
Homan confirmed Tuesday afternoon that deportations are happening but didn’t give any details about where they were happening.
‘These cases were already in the hopper. They’ve done the surveillance on them, they have good case notes, and they’re just hitting those cases that they were not allowed to hit prior,’ the former ICE director added.
Fabbricatore explained the Biden Administration had handcuffed agents from making arrests like this.
‘There were these priorities that were put out that limited you, like you couldn’t go after DUIs. You couldn’t go after a basic drug possession. The Biden Administration made these priorities that kept you from going after criminals,’ he shared.
Non-criminal migrants who have a final order from a judge to leave the country are also being picked up, although at least 85 percent of those being sought have criminal records.
‘Potentially, that person may not be a criminal but they still have gone through the immigration process, seen an immigration judge and refused to leave,’ Fabbricatore stated.
Law enforcement cautioned that these are not raids, meaning they aren’t fishing for any person who might be in the US illegally.
Instead, they’re calling this ‘targeted enforcement’ meaning agents have already done homework on who these people are and why they are being detained.
They also explained similar arrests are happening across the country, but they don’t look like the raids everyone expected.
