Trump border czar Tom Homan got personal after MSNBC’s Joy Reid dismissed the wave of migrant arrests as “performative.”
“She’s dumber than a box of rocks,” Homan told Fox News host Jesse Watters on Tuesday. (Watch the video below.)
Homan hasn’t been shy in responding to criticism of the arrests, a cornerstone of President Donald Trump’s promise of mass deportations. The effort so far has reportedly focused on the undocumented immigrants who have been accused of serious crimes but is expected to go beyond that.
After Mexican-American actor Selena Gomez posted and then deleted a video of her sobbing over the raids earlier this week, Homan said bluntly, “No apologies.”
Reid, who had New York Attorney General Letitia James as a guest, called the raids “performative” and accused Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem of “cosplaying” during a recent Immigration and Customs Enforcement crackdown in New York City. Many of the highly publicized missions have been targeting sanctuary cities.
Homan seemed to purposely ignore the poor optics of calling Reid, who is Black, dumb. He then leaned on a familiar refrain supporting his efforts.
“We’re protecting the community,” he said. “We’re saving children. We’re going to secure that border so less Americans die of fentanyl deaths. We’re securing the border so less women and children are sex trafficked. … We’re saving this nation. We’re making America safe again. So they need to get out of the way because we’re coming. We’re going to do it. They’re not going to stop us.”
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ICE has made more than 4,500 arrests since last Thursday, USA Today reported.
In the final year under former President Joe Biden’s administration, which was accused of being soft on immigration, more than 271,000 were deported, according to an ICE report.