Trump administration border czar Tom Homan said Monday that former President Joseph R. Biden was the only president to “unsecure” the border on purpose.
“Even President [Barack] Obama and President [Bill] Clinton took some steps to secure the border. They understood national security’s important,” Mr. Homan said. “Joe Biden was the first president in the history of this nation who came into office and unsecured a border on purpose. That’s just a fact.”
Mr. Homan told reporters in the White House briefing room that he worked under six presidents, and “every president I worked for took border security seriously because you can’t have national security if you don’t have strong border security.”
He said the “most secure border in my lifetime” under President Trump’s first term was handed over to Mr. Biden, who unsecured it.
He said the success of the second Trump administration at the border is “unprecedented.”
“We beat Trump’s first administration on border success,” Mr. Homan said. “Border numbers are historic low. As I’m standing here, we have the most secure border in the history of this nation. The numbers prove it.”
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He said illegal immigration is down 96%.
“When 96% less people are coming, how many women aren’t being sexually assaulted by the cartel? How many children aren’t dying making that journey? How many women and children aren’t being sex trafficked into this nation?”
