Tom Homan, speaking at the Faith & Freedom Coalition’s Road to Majority Conference, defended the Trump administration’s border enforcement and shared a blunt recruitment story about his appointment, arguing stricter policy saves lives and stops crime while taunting adversaries who oppose his approach.
Tom Homan addressed a conservative crowd in Washington, D.C., and framed the debate over immigration as one between enforcement that protects Americans and permissive policies that endanger them. He contrasted the Trump administration’s results with the previous administration’s posture of lax enforcement, calling that approach effectively an open-door policy. Homan emphasized deportations, agent increases, and a stern approach to cartels and smugglers as central to restoring order. His tone was unapologetic and unapologetically direct.
We had a historic year with deportations, but now we got 10,000 more agents on board, or should be on board, by the end of next month.
Wait till next year.
Homan used plain numbers to make a clear political point: enforcement works and scaling up personnel matters. He presented the deployment of 10,000 additional agents as a concrete signal that the border will no longer be a free-for-all. That projection serves as both a boast about progress and a warning to smugglers and criminals who profit from chaos. His audience heard a message about competence and results rather than rhetoric.
The former acting ICE director pushed back hard against narratives that portray enforcement as cruel, insisting that the human toll of uncontrolled migration is underestimated. He cited independent studies and heartbreaking statistics to argue that allowing the flow to continue is itself an act of cruelty. Homan framed the choice as between protecting vulnerable people from exploitation or leaving them exposed to violence and death. That moral argument reinforced the practical one he was making about security.
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I don’t want to hear another damn word about President Trump being inhumane.
He’s saving lives every day. There’s been studies done that 31 percent of women — and these studies are done by independent groups — up to 31 percent of women that make that journey coming to the United States get sexually assaulted. Thirty-one percent admitted they got sexually assault in making that journey. If 31 admitted it, how many is that, how many is that number, really?
So when President Trump has illegal migration down 97%, how many women aren’t being raped? How many children aren’t dying making that journey? How many known suspected terrorists aren’t coming into the country? How many pounds of fentanyl isn’t coming across the border to kill Americans?
President Trump is saving thousands of lives every month, but no one wants to talk about it.
That passage drove the moral core of Homan’s remarks, placing victims and victims’ families at the heart of the enforcement argument. He linked reductions in migration to fewer assaults, fewer deaths, and less trafficking of deadly drugs into American communities. For Homan, the statistics are proof that a hard line produces human benefits, not just political points. He challenged critics to explain why protecting lives would be portrayed as cruelty.
Homan also didn’t shy from drama when describing how President Trump brought him into the fight. He recounted a personal moment of recruitment in language that captures Trump’s blunt style. The quoted exchange highlights eagerness on the part of an experienced enforcement official to take on the problem when offered the chance. That anecdote connects the administration’s posture to real people making tough choices.
“You’ve been bitching about [illegal immigration] for four years, you want to come fix it?”
“How do you say no to that?” Homan said.
Beyond policy and anecdote, Homan made it clear he lives with real personal risk for taking this stance, noting persistent death threats and the constant need for security. He refused to be cowed and delivered a defiant message aimed squarely at cartels, critics, and anyone who would threaten him. The line he used to close that point left no mystery about his posture toward intimidation and violence. It was a combative, confident final note that fit the rest of his speech.
Homan’s remarks at the conference threaded policy details, moral claims, and a tough personal narrative into a single argument that stronger enforcement is both effective and necessary. He used clear numbers and blunt language to challenge opponents and underline the stakes for women, children, and communities harmed by unregulated migration. The speech was intended to leave listeners reassured about the direction of enforcement and ready for tougher measures ahead.
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He also addressed the liberal narrative that cracking down on enforcement and conducting deportations is cruel and that Donald Trump doesn’t care about people. It would be cruel to have continued with progressive policies that destroy lives, he said:
“How do you say no to that?” Homan said.
Homan says he refuses to live in fear, even though he receives constant death threats and can’t even go to the grocery store without a full security detail. His message to the cartels and haters who would love to 86 him: “Come get some.”
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