Tom Homan, the border tsar of President Donald Trump, promised Sunday that the Trump administration would not challenge the orders of the courts derived from the legal challenges about his invocation of the law of alien enemies in times of war to deport undocumented migrants of the United States.
During the past week, a federal judge in Washington, James Boasberg, has tried to determine if the Trump administration ignored an earlier order to temporarily stop deportation flights under the law of Alien enemies when he flew to Venezuelan detainees to El Salvador even after the judge ordered his flights to be delivered.
According to homan, all those sent to El Salvador were members of known gangs and, according to him, most were members of Aragua, the Venezuelan gang that the Trump administration has labeled with a terrorist organization.
“That plane eliminated 240 terrorists from the United States,” said Homin, speaking exclusively about “This Week” of ABC.
But the family members of some of those who led El Salvador insist that they had no affiliation with any gang. And on Sunday, Homan refused to provide any specific information that supports the claims of the Trump administration.
“Look, that is that he will be litigated in court with this judge,” said Homan, referring to Boasberg. “I will not enter each specific case.”
Although Homin promised that the Trump administration would not challenge the orders of the Court, he also said: “I do not care what the judges think about this case.”
Trump has publicly criticized Boasberg as “crooked” and has asked for his accusation.
Here are additional outstanding aspects of the homan’s interview:
On the following judicial orders
Karl: “I want to start with something you, you said last week that caused a stir. You said, I quote: ‘I don’t care what the judges think.” Now, I know that since then it has said that the Administration will fulfill the judicial orders. We listen to Donald Trump say the same. So what? What do you mean when you say: “I don’t care what the judges think?”
Homan: “Well, I don’t care what they think that the judges, in regards to this case. We will continue to stop public security threats and national security threats. We will continue deporting them from the United States. I understand that this case is in a litigation through the alien enemies law and that we will comply with the court order as litigate. But my point was, despite what he thinks, we will continue to point to the worst of the worst What we are giving from the day, and we have done the day, and leaves the United States, and the United, and those who believe them from the United States.
About people on deportation flights without criminal record
Karl: “So how does it determine, or how does its people determine in the field that someone is a member of a gang?”
Homan: “Look, there are several methods. Now, it has not been, I have noticed in the media, ‘Oh, many of them have no criminal record.’ Well, many gang members have no background.
In due process
Karl: How, I mean, what we have heard from lawyers who represent some of these people is that they deny that they are members of this, of this gang or, you know, a Aragua or MS-13 train. Do you have the opportunity to demonstrate that before getting them out of the country and putting them in a noticeable prison in a country they don’t even? I mean, do they have any due process?
Homan: “But the conclusion is that this plane was full of people designated as terrorists, number one. Number two, each, each Venezuelan migrant on that flight was a TDA member based on numerous criminal investigations, on intelligence intelligence reports, and a lot of work of ICE officers.
When verifying each person on flights to El Salvador, he was a member of a gang
Karl pointed out the case of Jerce Reyes Barrios, whose lawyer alleges who was deported due to his tattoo of the Real Madrid football team logo. Barrios’s lawyer said he had no previous criminal charges or that he has been involved in a gang. Karl asked if the administration would disseminate information about the deportees.
Homan: “Look, that will be, that, look that I would be litigated in court with this with this judge. I will not enter each specific case because, you know, there are 260 cases. We have to count on the men and women who do this every day for a living being, who, who, who appointed these people as members of TDA, through which I said, several methods of the law of the law.
By ensuring the border
Karl: “Very well, allow me to resort to the situation on the border itself. Now you have more than 10,000 American troops deployed to support your mission on the border and two destroyers of the Navy that have been deployed to patrol the waters around the border.
Homan: “We are going to ensure the border and make sure that there are no public security threats or national security threats cross the border and move away. Then, look, you know, as, as if we knew what would happen when securing the southern border, the terrestrial border, some of these groups will take Maritime, and we will have the water. Maritime.”
