Former Acting Director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Thomas Homan speaks during the third day of the 2024 Republican National Convention at the Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on July 17, 2024. (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images)
The border czar also announced that in Trump’s first month in the Oval Office, ICE arrested 21,000 illegal aliens.
"I'm happy with the numbers, but I'm not going to be satisfied until every criminal alien gang member, every criminal alien, every Tren de Aragua is eradicated from this country and [we've] sent their ass to Gitmo, where they belong," he said.
Addressing criminal migrant groups like Venezuela's Tren de Aragua and El Salvador's MS-13 – which the Trump administration just designated "foreign terrorist organizations" – Homan said the Trump administration is making good on its promise to stamp them out.
"He’s going to wipe you off the face of the earth," he said. "You have killed more Americans than every terrorist organization in the world combined. You are now a terrorist organization. So, word out to anybody that assists them, anybody that sells their drugs on a street, anybody assists these cartels in any way, you are helping a terrorist organization."
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Trump Border Czar Tom Homan; Boston Police Commissioner Michael Cox. (Reuters/Getty)
"Sanctuary cities are a sanctuary for criminals," he said. "We're enforcing the laws enacted by Congress, and we're not going to apologize for it, not under this administration."
Homan singled out Boston Police Commissioner Michael Cox, who recently doubled down on the city’s sanctuary policies and said his officers would not assist ICE with deportation operations.
"You said you doubled down on not helping the law enforcement officers of ICE. I'm coming to Boston, and I'm bringing hell with me," he said. "I looked at the numbers this morning, I counted, I stopped counting at nine. Nine child rapists that were in jail in Massachusetts, but rather than honoring an ICE detainer, you released them back into the street. You're not a police commissioner. Take that badge off your chest. Put it in the desk drawer. Because you became a politician. You forgot what's it’s like to be a cop."
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A U.S. Border Patrol agent stands on a cliff looking for migrants who crossed the border wall between the U.S. and Mexico near the city of Sasabe, Arizona, on Sunday, January 23, 2022. (Photo by Salwan Georges/The Washington Post via Getty Images)
Homan also took a few moments to express his gratitude to the men and women of federal law enforcement agencies like ICE and Border Patrol.
"God bless the men and women of ICE. God bless all the DOJ components, we’ve got the U.S. marshals, DEA, FBI, ATF, all these five agencies helping us," he said.
And to the men and women of Border Patrol, Homan said, "I love each and every one of you wearing that green uniform. You are the finest 1% of this country."
CPAC is an annual gathering of conservatives from across the country. This year, the conference took place in National Harbor, Maryland, and saw the participation of Trump, Vice President JD Vance, Elon Musk and several other top Trump Cabinet officials and Republican leaders.
Peter Pinedo is a politics writer for Fox News Digital.
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