Trump Praises ICE, Says BBB Gives Agency Tools For Mass Deportations
President Donald Trump on Saturday praised ICE officers for “fighting every day to reclaim our Sovereignty and Freedom,” as he spotlighted their role in his plans for the largest mass deportation effort in U.S. history.
“This July 4th weekend I want to give a big ‘THANK YOU!’ to the Heroic ICE Officers fighting every day to reclaim our Sovereignty and Freedom,” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post.
He pointed to his signature immigration plan, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, as the key to giving ICE billions more in funding to carry out its immigration enforcement duties.
“One of the most exciting parts of the ‘ONE BIG BEAUTIFUL BILL ACT’ is that it includes ALL of the Funding and Resources that ICE needs to carry out the Largest Mass Deportation Operation in History,” Trump said.
“Our Brave ICE Officers, who are under daily violent assault, will finally have the tools and support that they need. We will not let America become a Third World Country filled with Crime, failing Schools, collapsing Hospitals, and total Social Dysfunction,” he continued.
“It’s called ‘REMIGRATION’ and, it will, MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!”
Border czar Tom Homan, meanwhile, shockingly revealed that he is living apart from his wife due to death threats he has received in an interview with the New York Post’s Miranda Divine last month on her “Pod Force One” podcast.
“I spent a lot of time with my boys growing up, but as I got more and more — climbed the ladder of what I’ve done with ICE director and now back — I don’t see my family very much,” Homan said.
“My wife’s living separately from me right now, mainly because I worked for many hours, but mostly because of the death threats against me,” the country’s top border enforcer added. “She’s someplace else. I see her as much as I can, but the death threats against me and my family are outrageous.”
Homan served as acting ICE director during the first Trump administration but chose to retire after his nomination for the permanent role stalled in the Senate amid concerns about his tenure at the agency.
Homan said that Trump tapped him for his position within days of his landslide victory over then-Vice President Kamala Harris. He described the watershed moment to Divine as an offer that he simply could not refuse.
“I was the first person he called, bringing back, which, again, was a proud moment, but I was actually out to dinner with my wife, and then my phone rang, and I looked down, and it says, ‘POTUS.’ And my wife says, ‘He’s asking him to come back, isn’t he?’ ” Homan said.
“So I walked outside, and the first thing he said to me was, ‘You’ve been bitching about it for four years. Well, come back and fix it.’ So how do you say no?” Homan added.
Following U.S. strikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities, ICE detained 11 Iranian nationals, one of whom was a sharpshooter in his country’s elite army unit, during raids this week following the U.S. attack on Iran’s nuclear weapons facilities.
The arrest of Ribvar Karimi, who served four years in the Iranian army before obtaining a visa to enter the United States, comes after Iran threatened “retaliation” for the attack.
According to ICE agents, Karimi was apprehended while holding a card identifying him as a member of the Islamic Republic of Iran Army.
“Under Secretary Noem, DHS has been full throttle on identifying and arresting known or suspected terrorists and violent extremists that illegally entered this country, came in through Biden’s fraudulent parole programs or otherwise,” said DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin.
“We have been saying we are getting the worst of the worst out—and we are. We don’t wait until a military operation to execute; we proactively deliver on President Trump’s mandate to secure the homeland,” she added.
