The Tom Homan border tsar defended the sending of “designated terrorists” to prisons such as El Salvador, saying that the “songs” he has seen during his decades in border security justifies the movement of the Trump administration.
Homan appeared in “This Week” of ABC in a pre -recorded interview that was broadcast on Sunday, where he was asked if he had any repair about sending people to the notorious Terrorist Confinement Center (CECOT) of El Salvador, even if they have no criminal record.
“If people wore my shoes during the last 40 years and see the songs I have seen, they would understand that the worst needs of being sent to a prison like that because we have to protect US citizens,” said Homan. “We have to protect this country.”
Homan said that his four decades of experience working on border security reported his belief.
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The Border Tsar of the White House, Tom Homan, speaks with journalists at the White House, on Tuesday, April 15, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
“What you don't know, what most readers do not know, have not seen and experienced what I have seen in my 40 years,” Homan told Jonathan Karl of ABC.
“I have spoken with young girls, the nine youngest, who were raped by members of these gang posters,” Homan continued. “I have kept corpses throughout my career. I have spoken with one hundred … The angels and parents whose children were killed and brutally killed by members of MS-13 who simply did not kill them, mutilated them, tortured them.”
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The Trump administration plan to send the “worst of the worst” members of migrant gangs to CECOT has caused national controversy, and some outraged democrats accuse Trump of “kidnap” people for deportation.
A prisoner is transferred at the Terrorist Confinement Center in Tecoluca, El Salvador, on Wednesday, March 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
A Democrat, Senator Chris Van Hollen of Maryland, flew to El Salvador last week to meet with the illegal alien deported Kilmar Abrego García.
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Trump officials say that Abrego García was properly eliminated and argue that he is a member of the notorious MS-13 gang, although the Democrats argue that he was deported without due process, regardless of being an alleged member of the gang.
Peter Pinedo and Greg Wehner of Fox News Digital contributed to this report.
