{"id":2467179,"date":"2025-07-26T18:39:01","date_gmt":"2025-07-26T22:39:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tom-homan-schools-stephen-a-smith-on-deportation-on-his-own-show\/"},"modified":"2025-07-26T18:41:01","modified_gmt":"2025-07-26T22:41:01","slug":"tom-homan-schools-stephen-a-smith-on-deportation-on-his-own-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tom-homan-schools-stephen-a-smith-on-deportation-on-his-own-show\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Homan Schools Stephen A. Smith on Deportation on His Own Show"},"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\">24<\/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%2Ftom-homan-schools-stephen-a-smith-on-deportation-on-his-own-show%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=2467179&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--><p>Tom homan, the former U.S.Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) official, explained on &#8220;The Stephen A. Smith Show&#8221; why the Trump administration&#8217;s immigration enforcement cannot limit deportations solely to illegal immigrants who commit additional crimes. While the focus is on removing public safety and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/state-dept-spox-largest-threat-to-u-s-national-security-are-u-s-cops\/\" title=\"State Dept Spox: \u2018Largest Threat to U.S. National Security are U.S. Cops\u2019\">national security threats<\/a>, Homan stated that many immigrants who do not pose such threats are also arrested as collateral. He argued that only deporting criminals would send a negative message globally, encouraging illegal entry with the belief that avoiding further crimes allows one to stay. Homan emphasized that enforcing immigration laws for all illegal entrants is necessary to maintain fairness to legal immigrants and to prevent overwhelming the Border Patrol, which faces humanitarian challenges at the border. He also denied claims that immigration raids occur at schools and churches, asserting that the majority of arrests target criminals. Additionally, data was noted showing that under the Trump administration, Border Patrol agents released no illegal migrants into the U.S. in May 2024, a stark contrast to higher release numbers under the Biden administration.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<section> \t\t\t\t<script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC4)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>Border czar Tom Homan explained to ESPN&rsquo;s Stephen A. Smith on a Friday episode of &ldquo;The Stephen A. Smith Show&rdquo; why President Donald Trump&rsquo;s administration cannot limit deportations to only illegal immigrants who commit additional crimes.<\/p>\n<p>While <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/tom-homan-turns-tables-anti-ice-heckler-interrupting-speech-student-summit\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Homan<\/a> has&nbsp;emphasized a focus on targeting &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ice-racks-up-biggest-day-of-arrests-since-trump-took-office\/\" title=\"... Racks Up Biggest Day of Arrests Since Trump Took Off...\">public safety threats&#038;rdquo<\/a>; and &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ai-company-deepseek-funnels-american-user-data-to-china\/\" title=\"AI Company DeepSeek &#039;Funnels&#039; American User Data To China\">national security threats&#038;rdquo<\/a>; for deportation, he has also noted that authorities would make collateral <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/ice-doubles-massive-raid-la-mayor-bass-objections\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">arrests<\/a> of illegal immigrants who do not pose such threats.<\/p>\n<p>When Smith <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-BNyJJmQ6UQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">asked<\/a> Homan on &ldquo;The Stephen A. Smith Show&rdquo; to respond to public backlash about the Trump administration not sufficiently working on deporting &ldquo;the worst of the worst,&rdquo; the border czar pushed back on the public perception, adding that only deporting threats &ldquo;sends a bad message to the world.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<div class=\"firefly-embed\"> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Trump goes after Obama? Epstein is NOT going away, William McNeil arrest, Border Czar Tom Homan\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-BNyJJmQ6UQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&ldquo;What folks on the left and folks that are just average American citizens are pointing out is that they don&rsquo;t see that enough of that is happening,&rdquo; Smith said.<\/p>\n<p> <script type=\"text\/javascript\"> \t\t\tif ( getCookie( \"ff_subbed\" ) ) { \t\t\t\tdocument.getElementById(\"stnvideo\").remove() \t\t\t} else { \t\t\t\tdocument.addEventListener(\"DOMContentLoaded\", function() { \t\t\t\t\tfunction loadScript(src) { \t\t\t\t\t\tconst script=document.createElement(\"script\"); \t\t\t\t\t\tscript.src=src; \t\t\t\t\t\tscript.async=true; \t\t\t\t\t\tdocument.body.appendChild(script); \t\t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\t\tfunction findPreviousParagraph(selector, x) { \t\t\t\t\t\tconst targetElement=document.querySelector(selector); \t\t\t\t\t\tif (!targetElement) { \t\t\t\t\t\t\tconsole.warn(\"Target element not found.\"); \t\t\t\t\t\t\treturn null; \t\t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\t\t\/\/ Get all <\/p>\n<p> elements in order as they appear in the document \t\t\t\t\t\tlet paragraphs=Array.from(document.querySelectorAll(\"p\"));  \t\t\t\t\t\t\/\/ Find the index of the last <\/p>\n<p> before the target element \t\t\t\t\t\tlet targetIndex=paragraphs.findIndex(p=> p.compareDocumentPosition(targetElement) & Node.DOCUMENT_POSITION_PRECEDING);  \t\t\t\t\t\tif (targetIndex===-1 || targetIndex <x) { \t\t\t\t\t\t\tconsole.warn(\"Not enough paragraphs before the target element.\"); \t\t\t\t\t\t\treturn null; \t\t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\t\treturn paragraphs[targetIndex - x]; \t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\t\/\/ Set up IntersectionObserver \t\t\t\t\tfunction observeElement(element) { \t\t\t\t\t\tif (!element) return;  \t\t\t\t\t\tconst observer=new IntersectionObserver( \t\t\t\t\t\t\t(entries)=> { \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tentries.forEach(entry=> { \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tif (entry.isIntersecting) { \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tconsole.log(\"Paragraph is now visible:\", entry.target.textContent.trim()); \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tloadScript(\"https:\/\/embed.sendtonews.com\/player3\/embedcode.js?fk=s28Az7AY\"); \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tobserver.disconnect(); \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t}); \t\t\t\t\t\t\t}, \t\t\t\t\t\t\t{ threshold: 0.5 } \/\/ Adjust threshold as needed \t\t\t\t\t\t);  \t\t\t\t\t\tobserver.observe(element); \t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\t\/\/ Find the 1st paragraph before #stnvideo and observe it \t\t\t\t\tlet paragraphToObserve=findPreviousParagraph(\"#stnvideo\", 2); \t\t\t\t\tobserveElement(paragraphToObserve); \t\t\t\t}); \t\t\t} \t\t<\/script> <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;That quote-unquote innocent civilians in this country that happen to be in this country are the ones being targeted, where you&rsquo;re going to a school or you&rsquo;re going to their workplace or what have you, and you&rsquo;re taking them away in an effort to deport them. What do you say to that?&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Homan asserted that reports of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/ice-unleashes-blistering-fact-check-actual-condition-detention-centers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">immigration<\/a> raids at schools and churches are false.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We are prioritizing public safety threats. That&rsquo;s why the majority of people we arrest are criminals. The majority of people we&rsquo;re detaining are criminals. That&rsquo;s just a fact. But just because we&rsquo;re <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >prioritizing public safety threats doesn&#038;rsquo<\/a>;t mean everybody else gets a pass,&rdquo; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Because if the message we want to send, Stephen, to the whole world is: you can enter the country illegally, it&rsquo;s a crime, don&rsquo;t worry about it. You can show up in court or not show up in court and get a final order of deportation from a federal judge &mdash; don&rsquo;t worry about it. As long as you don&rsquo;t commit another crime, you&rsquo;re home free,&rdquo; he continued.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;That&rsquo;s not the message we&rsquo;ve got to send to the whole world. Because if you do that, you&rsquo;re never going to fix the issue. People are going to realize: &lsquo;I can get to the United States, I can cheat the system, and make a false asylum claim,&rsquo;&rdquo; he continued.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;&lsquo;I&rsquo;ll later be ordered removed, but I never got to leave because I didn&rsquo;t commit another crime beyond illegal entry.&rsquo;&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Homan argued that not enforcing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/tom-homan-sets-record-straight-ice-plans-farm-hotel-raids\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">immigration<\/a> law for illegal aliens who have not committed crimes would be unfair to people who are putting in the time and money to become citizens legally.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;So when you don&rsquo;t enforce law and you don&rsquo;t show consequences, people feel welcome to come across. It overwhelms the Border Patrol. Now they&rsquo;re dealing with this humanitarian crisis, but their national security job &mdash; it&rsquo;s fractured because they created gaps in the system,&rdquo; he added.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Because there are areas of the border where there&rsquo;s not a single green uniform because they&rsquo;re busy changing diapers, making baby formula, you know, and making hospital runs &mdash; whatever is required.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s important we send a message to the whole world: there&rsquo;s a right way and a wrong way to come to this country,&rdquo; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Border Patrol <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/pathetic-dem-rep-charged-interfering-ice-resorts-card-left\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">agents<\/a>&nbsp;released a total of zero illegal migrants into the United States in May.<\/p>\n<p>Customs and Border Protection confirmed on July 15 that this trend persisted in June, a stark contrast to former President Joe Biden&rsquo;s administration.<\/p>\n<p>Border Patrol agents released 62,000 migrants along the U.S.-Mexico border in May 2024 and an additional 27,766 in June 2024 under Biden, according to the agency.<\/p>\n<div class=\"disclaimer\">\n<p>All content created by the Daily Caller News Foundation, an independent and nonpartisan newswire service, is available without charge to any legitimate news publisher that can provide a large audience. 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