Border czar Tom Homan doubled down on his statement that he didn’t “care” about U.S. District Judge James E. Boasberg’s decision in a deportation case involving Venezuelan gang members.
During a Sunday interview with ABC’s Jonathan Karl, Homan was asked about his remarks.
“You said, and I quote, I don’t care what the judges think,” Karl pointed out. “Now, I understand you have since stated that the administration will comply with court orders. We heard Donald Trump say the same thing. So, what do you mean when you say “I don’t care what the judges think?”
“No, I don’t care what judges think as far as this case, we’re going to continue to arrest public safety threats and national security threats,” Homan told him. “We’re going to continue to deport them from the United States.”
“I understand this case is in litigation through the Alien Enemies Act and we’ll abide by the court order as litigated, but my quote was, despite what he thinks, we’re going to keep targeting the worst of the worst, which we’ve been doing since day one in deporting from the United States to the various laws on the books,” he said afterwards.
“The Alien Enemies Act was actually a federal law, it’s the statutes, enacted by Congress and signed by a president,” according to him.
“But you’re going to abide by court orders as long as, you know, and go through your appeals process, but you are not going to defy those orders?” Karl inquired.
“No,” Homan replied. Homan insisted that the Trump administration was “not making this up” when it used an 18th-century law to deport immigrants without due process.
