White House border czar Tom Homan arguably received the loudest applause of the evening from the audience at the Turning Point Student Action Summit in Tampa, Florida, when he delivered a passionate retort to a heckler.
“Tom Homan is going to oversee the largest deportation operation this country has ever witnessed. Mark my words,” Homan declared to the audience.
During the middle of his speech, a heckler rose and yelled, “Are you an MS-13 gang member?” The heckler was subsequently removed by security, but not before giving Homan additional motivation to conclude his address.
“I have a question,” the border czar responded as the heckler was being escorted out of the venue. “No, no, no. I have a question for you. Why don’t you come up here and give me that picture? Bring it,” Homan urged while gesturing towards a sign the disruptor was holding.
At that moment, the crowd erupted into enthusiastic chants of “USA, USA,” with Homan eventually joining in. “You have fools like this all over the nation. This individual, this individual wouldn’t understand what it means to serve this country. This person lacks the courage to be an ICE officer. He doesn’t have the guts to be a Border Patrol agent. This guy resides in his mother’s basement. The only thing that astonishes me is that you don’t have purple hair and a nose ring,” he continued as the audience continued to cheer wildly.
“Get out of here, you loser. And if you’re so tough, meet me off stage in 13 minutes and 50 seconds. I assure you, he sits down to urinate. I guarantee it.”]} “`
Once the heckler was removed, Homan reassured attendees that ICE will persist with its mission despite opposition from the left, stating, “we’re going to fulfill the task that President Trump assigned to us.”
The mass deportation initiative of the Trump Administration is anticipated to significantly expand in scope over the coming weeks, attributed to a substantial increase in funding provided in the Big Beautiful Bill, a spending package supported by the White House that encompasses several of the president’s key legislative objectives.
As part of this bill, which received presidential assent on July 4, ICE’s funding is projected to rise from $2 billion to over $70 billion. This allocation includes an extra $45 billion designated for expanding detention facilities, while $30 billion is intended for the recruitment of additional immigration agents. These enhancements are expected to greatly enhance the federal government’s ability to conduct interior deportations.
On Monday, Homan declared that ICE aims to achieve over 7,000 deportations daily moving forward. This target would result in approximately 1.2 million arrests if agents meet their daily quota for the remainder of the year.
“And for those who argue that 3,000 a day is excessive, I would like to remind them to do the calculations; we must apprehend 7,000 every single day for the rest of this administration merely to account for those released into the country by Biden,” Homan informed reporters on Monday outside the White House.