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White House Border Czar: ‘Amnesty Is Off The Table’

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The White House border czar Tom Homan said in a press conference shared online Thursday that the Trump administration was not considering amnesty for illegal immigrants.

Homan, responding to a question about whether illegal immigrants under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) policy — also called Dreamers — would be deported when mass deportations resume, said, “If you’re in the country illegally, you got a problem,” according to a C-SPAN 3 video.

“Someone saying I made a comment about the discussions going on about amnesty. I said from day one, I’ll say it again … President Trump said amnesty is off the table. I support that. I don’t think amnesty should be on the table,” he added.

That the activities of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) no longer appear to dominate the headlines does not signify that the Trump administration has backtracked on its plan to deport illegal immigrants en masse, Homan said in an exclusive interview with CBS News Tuesday. “The numbers have dipped slightly, I think, 12%, because the government’s shut down,” he told the outlet.

He said the ICE operations in Minneapolis, Minnesota, were not perfect and he had to make corrections upon his deployment there by the administration. Those moves led to “unprecedented support from county jails across the state that we didn’t have before,” he added.

Homan went to Minnesota in January in the wake of the shootings of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. He previously stated that he had meetings with various officials, including Democratic Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz.

“We got the bad guy in the safety and security of the jail. Which means we didn’t have to go to the street to find him, right? So you send a whole team of six or seven guys to go find this person, and things were so elevated, the hate and the violence was so elevated. Now we got to send a security team to back up the jobs team,” he told the outlet.

Homan told FOX News Thursday that the administration was keen to deport every illegal alien, while prioritizing deportation for criminal illegal aliens, to “send a message to the whole world” that illegal immigration is criminal.

“About 60 percent of those we are arresting are criminals. 40 percent are non-criminals. I like that calculation! I think 60 criminal, 40 non-criminal is better than 40 criminal, 60 non-criminal,” he told the outlet.

He also pledged to send more agents to New York and slammed sanctuary cities as “dangerous.”

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John Oyewale

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Biden Admin Promises Legal ‘Response’ After Court Declares DACA Illegal

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Federal Appeals Court Rules DACA Illegal

The Biden administration says it will take legal action after a court declared Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) illegal Wednesday.

The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals’ ruling “deeply disappointed” Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, who said his department will work with the Department of Justice (DOJ) to devise an “appropriate legal response.” The case will go back to a lower court while nearly 600,000 DACA recipients currently in the U.S. will be able to remain in the program.

“The Department of Justice respectfully disagrees with the decision and will continue to vigorously defend the lawfulness of DACA as this case proceeds,” DOJ spokesperson Dena Iverson told the Daily Caller News Foundation.

Wednesday’s decision is part of a 2018 lawsuit led by nine Republican states, contesting the legality of then-President Barack Obama’s 2012 program.

“DACA—part of Dems’ program to flood our country with aliens—is illegal & will stay enjoined. Huge victory for the Rule of Law in America!,” Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton wrote in a tweet Wednesday.

The Biden administration attempted in August to codify DACA as a federal regulation before the latest decision. A federal judge ruled in July 2021 that the Biden administration couldn’t process new DACA applications, which the administration appealed.

“Today, we are taking another step to do everything in our power to preserve and fortify DACA, an extraordinary program that has transformed the lives of so many Dreamers,” Mayorkas said at the time.

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) says it will continue to accept DACA renewal requests and will accept new requests without processing them.

DHS didn’t respond to the DCNF’s request for comment.

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JENNIE TAER

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