{"id":132707,"date":"2021-02-15T07:17:18","date_gmt":"2021-02-15T12:17:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=132707"},"modified":"2021-02-15T07:28:01","modified_gmt":"2021-02-15T12:28:01","slug":"former-ice-director-on-massive-surge-at-southern-border-this-isnt-by-accident-this-is-by-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/former-ice-director-on-massive-surge-at-southern-border-this-isnt-by-accident-this-is-by-design\/","title":{"rendered":"Former ICE Director On Massive Surge At Southern Border: \u2018This Isn\u2019t By Accident, This Is By Design\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fformer-ice-director-on-massive-surge-at-southern-border-this-isnt-by-accident-this-is-by-design%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=132707&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Tom-Homan.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Former acting ICE Director Tom Homan told Fox News over the weekend that the recent surge U.S. officials are seeing on the southern border was not an accident but the result of a designed open borders strategy by the Biden administration.<\/p>\n<p>Fox News host Mike Emanuel highlighted recent numbers that border officials saw for the month of January, which included \u201cabout 3,000 border arrests per day in January 2021, encounters at the border up 114% from the same time a year ago, the highest amount since July 2019.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Asked to respond to those numbers, Homan said, \u201cI wrote an op-ed for Fox News seven months ago and I said if Joe Biden became president, we would lose the border and it\u2019s happening.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe surge is already there,\u201d Homan said. \u201cNow, you mentioned those numbers, but the truth is, it\u2019s almost 4,000 crossings a day because Border Patrol isn\u2019t adding [the ones who got away]. So there\u2019s a way they count footprints in the sand and vehicle stop. So it\u2019s about 4,000 a day. Now, you times that by a month, that\u2019s 120,000 month, which is 1.4 million a year. And that\u2019s why Title 42 is still in place for single adults. Once [the Remain In Mexico policy] stops adhering to Title 42, the numbers will be astronomical. And we knew this will happen because all the promises Joe Biden has made and he continues to make. And you know, so this isn\u2019t by accident. This is by design. This is an open border strategy. He has bowed to the left, we lose the border.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id>\n<p><em>MIKE EMANUEL, FOX NEWS HOST: For more insight let\u2019s turn to retired ICE director and Fox News contributor Tom Homan. Tom, welcome.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>TOM HOMAN, FORMER ACTING ICE DIRECTOR: Thanks for having me.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>EMANUEL:<\/em> <em>Let\u2019s take a look at recent numbers. 2021 border encounters, Border Patrol averaged about 3,000 border arrests per day in January 2021, encounters at the border up 114% from the same time a year ago, the highest amount since July 2019. Tom, how do you assess those numbers?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>HOMAN: Well you know, I wrote an op-ed for Fox News seven months ago and I said if Joe Biden became president, we would lose the border and it\u2019s happening. The surge is already there. Now, you mentioned those numbers, but the truth is, it\u2019s almost 4,000 crossings a day because Border Patrol isn\u2019t adding [the ones who got away].&nbsp; So there\u2019s a way they count footprints in the sand and vehicle stop. So it\u2019s about 4,000 a day. Now, you times that by a month, that\u2019s 120,000 month, which is 1.4 million a year. And that\u2019s why Title 42 is still in place for single adults. Once [Remain In Mexico] stops adhering to Title 42, the numbers will be astronomical. And we knew this will happen because all the promises Joe Biden has made and he continues to make. And you know, so this isn\u2019t by accident. This is by design. This is an open border strategy. He has bowed to the left, we lose the border.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>EMANUEL: Let\u2019s put on the screen from the acting ICE director\u2019s memo Tae Johnson quote, \u2018generally these convictions would not include drug based crimes (less serious offenses), simple assault, DUI, money laundering, property crimes, fraud, tax crimes, solicitation, or charges without convictions. Tom, how do you respond?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>HOMAN: ICE has lost 95% of their criminal targets they arrest every year, criminal targets, people convicted of crimes, 95% of them are off the table. Now the Biden administration says public safety is still important. Well, obviously not because DUI is a public safety issue, over 10,000 people a year die from DUIs and if Joe Biden ever sat down and talked to an angel mom or angel dad, and I\u2019ve met hundreds of them, whose children were killed by someone here illegally, over a DUI, they\u2019ve lost their children. And look this this isn\u2019t about public safety at all, because he says sex offenders are still a priority. But he hasn\u2019t done a thing about sanctuary cities. So sanctuary cities like New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Boston, I go on, Seattle, they\u2019re not going to honor ICE detainers whether a sexual predator or not. So this [is] meaningless, this [is] disingenuous, to say sexual offenders are still a priority, but you know what, we\u2019re not gonna let these big cities, you know, change the way they conduct business with ICE. And how they conduct business ICE? They don\u2019t. They don\u2019t accept their retainers. So this is this is disingenuous. This is a false narrative to the American people.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>EMANUEL: Florida Governor Ron DeSantis expressed these concerns this morning, take a listen.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>[START VIDEO]<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>RON DESANTIS, GOVERNOR OF FLORIDA: Of course, they\u2019re not being screened for COVID at the southern border, because this is all political. So he\u2019s opening the border, he\u2019s letting illegals pour in. They\u2019re not doing any COVID tests. They\u2019re just coming into the communities.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>[END VIDEO]<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>EMANUEL: What about the border issue as it relates to this pandemic we\u2019re still dealing with?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>HOMAN: Well, great quote, he\u2019s exactly right. Thousands of family units have been released in the United States over the past few weeks, no COVID test. And [inaudible] released in American communities with no COVID test, and on top of that, as soon as they get to the destination, they qualify for a work visa, they\u2019re going to be competing for the same jobs that unemployed Americans are competing for now because the unemployment rate is extremely high. So you know, the Biden administration says we\u2019re concerned about COVID, we want federal mandates on masks, and we\u2019re shutting down schools. At the same time, thousands of are coming across the border with no COVID test, no mask, being released in the U.S. to compete for the same us jobs that many of our middle class workers are gonna be competing for. It\u2019s again, it\u2019s a switch on the American people. They don\u2019t care about employment of Americans, they don\u2019t care about COVID, or they would take action on the border to protect Americans.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a<\/span><\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em><span>member<\/span><\/em><\/a><em><span>.&nbsp;<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former acting ICE Director Tom Homan told Fox News over the weekend that the recent surge U.S. officials are seeing on the southern border was not an accident but the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1893452,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[3811,6350,3692,5908,6260,4395],"class_list":["post-132707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-border","tag-director","tag-former","tag-massive","tag-southern","tag-surge"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132707\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1893452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}