President Donald Trump’s border security czar has whopped an important caveat on top of his earlier claim he couldn’t care less what the nation’s judges think of the new administration’s deportation drive.
“No,” as Tom Homan, after several seconds of sullen silence, so succinctly put after being asked whether he had any imminent plans to defy court orders during an interview on ABC.
His comments follow after James Boasberg, Chief Judge at Washington, D.C.’s District Court, issued a temporary order banning the Trump administration from deporting any more migrants under the Alien Enemies Act, an obscure law dating back to 1798.
President Trump and his top-campaign-donor-turned-government efficiency-advisor Elon Musk have since called for Boasberg to be impeached, while Homan later went on the defensive during a controversial interview with Fox News, in which he claimed “we’re not stopping, I don’t care what the judges think.”
While admitting during his Sunday ABC appearance that his team would abide by the process of appealing against Boasberg’s order, Homan nevertheless repeated his prior claims of indifference toward duly appointed officers of the court.
“I don’t care what that judge thinks as far as this case,” he answered in response to a question asking for clarification on what exactly he’d originally meant.
“I understand this case is in litigation through the Alien Enemies Act and we’ll abide by the court order as litigated,” Homan went on. “But my point was, despite what he thinks, we’re going to keep targeting the worst of the worst, which we’ve been doing since day one, and deporting them from the United States through the various laws on the book.”
He further pointed out that above and beyond that particular item of 18th-century legislation, his team nevertheless retains authority under regular immigration law “to remove illegal aliens from the United States.”
“We’re going to continue to concentrate on those who are the biggest threat to our communities, the public safety threats,” he added.
