Trump administration border czar Tom Homan reacted to a viral video of singer Selena Gomez having an emotional breakdown over illegal aliens being deported.
President Donald Trump took office just over a week ago, but his immigration strategy has already shown significant results.
'We’re going to do this operation without apology.'
Sources informed Fox News that there were only 582 total border encounters on Sunday. None of the nine sectors of the United States Border Patrol received more than 200 crossings on Jan. 26. For comparison, the Del Rio sector alone received more than 4,000 border-crossing encounters during the height of the border crisis in December 2023.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement noted that there were 1,179 arrests on Monday — the highest number since Trump took office. In the past six days, ICE has arrested 4,521 people.
ICE officials told the Washington Post that it would increase its daily arrest goal to between 1,200 and 1,500 per day.
However, not everyone is excited about the crackdown on illegal immigrants — especially Selena Gomez.
In a since-deleted video on Instagram, Gomez is seen hysterically crying about her "people" being deported.
"All my people are getting attacked, the children," the 32-year-old said while uncontrollably crying. "I don't understand. I'm so sorry. I wish I could do something, but I can't. I don't know what to do. I'll try everything, I promise."
After Gomez deleted the video, she then posted an Instagram story that read: "Apparently it's not ok to show empathy for people."
The singer's cryfest in favor of illegal aliens was not welcomed by some.
Sam Parker, a 2018 Republican Senate candidate from Utah, reacted to her video by saying, "Selena Gomez picked illegals over America because she's the 3rd gen descendent [sic] of Mexican illegals who received citizenship in the '87 Amnesty. She has an entitlement attitude toward America, like her illegal g'parents. Maybe Selena should be deported, too?"
Parker later added, "Deport Selena Gomez."
The Los Angeles Times reported that it took Selena's grandparents 17 years to get U.S. citizenship. The Daily Mail reported that Selena's grandparents came to the U.S. illegally from Mexico in the 1970s.
The former Disney star responded with a post on Instagram that has since been deleted, "Oh, Mr. Parker, Mr. Parker. Thanks for the laugh and the threat."
Tom Homan, border czar for the Trump administration, corrected the record in a Monday interview on Fox News.
Homan declared, "I don't think we've arrested any families. We've arrested public safety threats and national security threats, bottom line."
"Look, President Trump won the election on this one issue: securing our border and saving lives. This, what happened on the southern border the last four years, is the biggest national security threat this country’s seen, at least in my lifetime,” Homan added.
Homan had two blunt questions for Gomez regarding the border crisis.
"We got a quarter of a million Americans dead from fentanyl coming across the border," Homan stated. "Where's the tears for them?"
"I met with hundreds of angel moms and dads who are separated from their children because they buried them because they were killed by illegal aliens," Homan explained. "We got half a million children who were sex-trafficked into this country, separated from their families, put in the hands of criminal cartels to be smuggled into the country. This administration can't find over 300,000. Where's the tears for them?"
"We're going to do this job. And we’re going to enforce the laws of this country. If they don’t like it, then go to Congress and change the law," Homan proclaimed. "We’re going to do this operation without apology. We’re going to make our communities safer."
"Plus, [the] overdose of fentanyl is going to drop. Illegal alien crime is going to drop. Sex trafficking of women and children is going to drop. It's worth the investment," Homan explained. "It's a one-time cost to secure this nation and make America safe again."
Gomez was a producer on "Living Undocumented," a 2019 Netflix docuseries that spotlights the lives of illegal immigrant families in America.
A whopping 87% of Americans support deporting illegal immigrants with a criminal record, according to a poll from the New York Times and Ipsos that was released earlier this month. The same poll showed that 55% of Americans believe that all illegal immigrants should be deported. Only 34% support deporting individuals who were brought into the country illegally when they were children.
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President-elect Donald Trump plans to sign hundreds of executive actions immediately after being sworn in as the 47th president. Ten of the executive orders that Trump has planned are specifically focused on the border, as indicated in a Washington Examiner report circulated Monday by the Trump-Vance transition team.
While all of Trump's proposed orders pertaining to border security could help remedy the crisis exacerbated and in some ways generated in recent years by the Biden administration, one order in particular may prove particularly consequential.
Trump, who apparently has a signing desk waiting for him on the stage in the Rotunda, plans to end birthright citizenship, an unnamed incoming senior Trump administration official told reporters on a call Monday morning.
By doing so, Trump would make good on a May 2023 promise in which he said, "As part of my plan to secure the border, on Day One of my new term in office, I will sign an executive order making clear to federal agencies that under the correct interpretation of the law, going forward, the future children of illegal aliens will not receive automatic U.S. citizenship."
'Tomorrow at noon the curtain closes on four long years of American decline.'
"My policy will choke off a major incentive for continued illegal immigration, deter more migrants from coming, and encourage many of the aliens Joe Biden has unlawfully let into our country to go back to their home countries," added Trump.
Trump, who apparently had a draft EO ready to go midway through his first term, noted in a corresponding release that his EO would clarify the meaning of the 14th Amendment, emphasizing that American citizenship extends only to individuals both born in and "subject to the jurisdiction" of the United States.
Along with citizenship, the anchor babies of illegal aliens would be denied passports, Social Security numbers, and certain taxpayer-funded welfare benefits.
At his victory rally at the Capital One Arena Sunday in Washington, D.C., Trump said, "Tomorrow at noon the curtain closes on four long years of American decline, and we begin a brand-new day of American strength and prosperity, dignity, and pride."
'Plenty of nonprofit groups would be ready to sue if Trump tried to get rid of birthright citizenship through an executive order.'
"We’re going to stop the invasion of our borders," said Trump, adding, "The border security measures I will outline in my inaugural address tomorrow will be the most aggressive sweeping effort to restore our borders the world has ever seen."
The Examiner indicated that for his nine other border-related executive actions, Trump will:
While Trump may be able to realize a great many of his executive actions, his elimination of birthright citizenship will almost certainly face legal challenges.
"Plenty of nonprofit groups would be ready to sue if Trump tried to get rid of birthright citizenship through an executive order," Dan Urman, a legal scholar at Northeastern University, told the school's news page in December. "He might try, but he would lose in court. Perhaps this is his point — he wants the issue to reach the courts — but he will likely lose."
“This will set up the court fight — the order will be enjoined, case will eventually reach SCOTUS, which then will finally have to rule on the meaning of 'subject to the jurisdiction,'" Mark Krikorian, executive director of the Center for Immigration Studies, wrote in response to news during Trump's first term that such an EO was on the table.
The 14th Amendment grants citizenship to individuals "born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof." The Hill noted that since an 1898 Supreme Court case concerning the child of a Chinese couple, the 14th Amendment has long been interpreted to mean that anyone born in the country qualifies as a citizen regardless of their parents' immigration status.
Historian Victor Davis Hanson noted earlier this month, "The 14th Amendment didn't really ever say, as sometimes [is] alleged, that if you're born in the United States, then you're an automatic citizen. It says if you're born in the United States, and not subject to the laws of another country. All the people coming, in some sense, are subject to the laws of another country."
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Mike Coffman (R), the mayor of Aurora, Colorado, accused Denver Mayor Mike Johnston (D) of facilitating a covert migrant relocation scheme that led to a severe increase in gang activity in Aurora.
In a Monday op-ed for the Denver Gazette, Coffman blamed Johnston for the ongoing immigration and gang crisis, claiming he partnered with two non-governmental organizations to move foreign nationals from Denver, a sanctuary city, to other neighboring towns.
'Coffman's weak leadership allowed this to happen.'
Coffman, who has come under fire for his role in allowing illegal aliens to settle in Aurora, defended his decision in November to grant Johnston permission to use a Quality Inn hotel to house "busloads of migrants that were overwhelming Denver."
"I initially said yes, but it soon became apparent that beyond giving the newly arrived migrants a 30-day hotel voucher, he had no plan for them other than leaving them homeless in Aurora," Coffman wrote.
He claimed that he demanded that Johnston pick up the migrants and transport them back to Denver.
"He did, and from that point forward, I turned down his requests for further assistance," Coffman said.
He declared Johnston "talks incessantly in political sound bites."
Coffman cited in his article a City Journal report that indicated Johnston had drafted contracts with NGOs to house migrants in and around the sanctuary city.
Specifically, the report claimed that one of the organizations partnered with CBZ Management, a property management company, to move migrants to three of its Aurora apartment complexes: the Edge of Lowry, Whispering Pines, and Fitzsimons Place, which is also known as Aspen Grove.
CBZ Management and its apartment complexes were thrown into the center of the national immigration debate after a former resident at the Edge of Lowry released footage of a group of armed men storming through the complex.
One of the men in the video, who was later arrested, reportedly admitted to law enforcement that he was a member of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua, which has spread to more than a dozen states in the country.
CBZ Management has blamed the city for allowing the gang to take over its apartment buildings.
"After reading the article, I confronted Johnston about whether this was true. He affirmed that Denver had contracts with nonprofits that 'have' placed migrants from Denver to Aurora but he refused to confirm a number, where they were housed, or what resources they were given," Coffman wrote.
He explained that an open records request revealed that Denver's contracts with the nonprofits allowed them to place migrants "in Denver or in the surrounding communities." He claimed such wording allowed the NGOs to put the migrants in Aurora without notifying city leaders.
"It gives Johnston cover, should it become public, by allowing him to say that it wasn't his decision to put them in Aurora; it was the nonprofits who made the decision," Coffman stated.
He concluded, "Aurora has suffered from a national embarrassment that has harmed the image of our city in a way that could have lasting economic consequences. As the mayor of Aurora, I'm asking that Mayor Mike Johnston be transparent and tell the truth about what he did."
Johnston's office told Fox News Digital, "Denver did not direct any nonprofit or agency to place newcomers in Aurora."
"We also have no documentation nor knowledge to suggest that any city funds were put toward rental support at CBZ properties. Any suggestion otherwise is untrue," the spokesperson continued. "Denver is proud to have supported nearly 43,000 people from the southern border, many of whom arrived on buses chartered by the governor of Texas despite having had no intentions of making Denver or Colorado their home."
John Fabbricatore, a retired ICE Denver Field Office director, claimed that Coffman's op-ed was an attempt to "cover his tracks."
"He had known about this for a while and knew that Denver had been moving Venezuelans into Aurora. Coffman's weak leadership allowed this to happen. He also learned through APD [Aurora Police Department] that Tren De Aragua had moved into North Aurora in December of 2023. He knew all of this, yet he lied about it to the media," Fabbricatore wrote in a post on X.
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