On January 23, Homan appeared on NewsNation with host Chris Cuomo, where he gave an update on the Trump administration’s mass deportation plans — revealing that ICE had apprehended roughly 1,300 illegal aliens, which included more than 1,000 illegals who had committed additional crimes beyond illegally entering the U.S. or overstaying a legal visa.
“What I can tell you right now, Chris, is we’ve arrested 1300 people, over a thousand of them are criminals,” Homan stated. “Who are the other ones? They’re either fugitives who’ve been through immigration court, have been ordered to be removed but didn’t, became a fugitive, or collaterals.”
He went on to note that the remaining 300 illegal aliens arrested were “collaterals” — people who had not necessarily committed crimes since entering the country, but had been caught up when ICE agents were arresting a criminal illegal alien. While the Trump administration planned to focus on apprehending “public safety threats” first, Homan noted that ICE was not going to walk away from an illegal alien they encountered just because they don’t necessarily pose a threat.
“Look, I said from day one, no one’s off the table,” Homan explained. “If you’re in the United States illegally, you’ve got a problem. But we are concentrating on public safety threats first. That just makes sense.”
A January 24 report from The New York Post has confirmed that the 1,300 illegal aliens included known pedophiles, gang members, and at least one terrorist who had been living in New York — with ICE New York confirming in a statement that they had arrested “Gokhan Adriguzel, a 30-year-old Turkish national who is a ‘known or suspected terrorist.’”
“Juan Francisco Sanchez Contreras, 22, an El Salvador national, is an MS-13 gang member and was illegally living in the United States until today,” the statement also confirmed.
ICE agents in Buffalo, New York, also announced the arrest of “Pedro Julio Meja, a citizen of the Dominican Republic, was previously convicted of sexual conduct against a child,” and “Luis Alberto Espinoza-Boconsaca, an Ecuadorian who was convicted of rape.” The agents also arrested Canadian citizen Albert Mills, who had been convicted of “endangering the welfare of a child and criminal possession of stolen property.”
ICE also allowed a Fox News reporter to embed with their Boston office to report on immigration enforcement in real time:
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