Trump's border czar sounds alarm on major terror attack: 'I'm convinced something's coming'

Daily Mail​

2 days ago

Trump's border czar Tom Homan declared on Monday night that the United States is under threat of an imminent 9/11-style terror attack due to Joe Biden 's failed immigration policies.
Homan - who oversees Trump's mass deportation initiative - cited the staggering number of immigrants who evaded capture, called 'gotaways,' as the nation's greatest looming security vulnerability.
'It's coming,' Homan said bluntly on Fox News. 'I'm convinced something's coming unless we can find them. It's only a matter of time.'
Homan described the situation as the most preventable national security threat in American history and one he believes could rival, or even surpass, the devastation of 9/11 if the government doesn't act swiftly.
Over the past four years, millions of migrants have either turned themselves in or evaded capture entirely, overwhelming the country's immigration infrastructure.
But Homan says what keeps him up at night are the two million illegals who avoided apprehension altogether with many paying smugglers premium fees to evade authorities.
'These two million known gotaways scare the hell out of me,' Homan admitted. 'They crossed the border. We don't know where they are now.
'They could have paid half of what they paid to cross the border, turn themselves in, get released the same day, get a free airline ticket, a hotel room, three meals a day, free medical care, and work authorization. But they didn't. They paid to avoid being fingerprinted, to avoid being vetted. Why?' Homan questioned.
'This should scare the hell out of every American. I've been doing this for 40 years. I've never seen anything like this,' Homan said.
'This is the biggest national security vulnerability this country has ever seen,' he went on. 'And thanks to what they did in just four years, we'll be dealing with the consequences for the next decade.'
The gravity of Homan's warning was amplified by real-world events just one day earlier.
In Boulder, Colorado, 12 people were wounded in an antisemitic terror attack carried out by a man using Molotov cocktails and a makeshift flamethrower.
The suspect, Mohamed Sabry Soliman, is a 45-year-old Egyptian national who entered the US on a tourist visa in 2022, later obtained asylum protections, and was issued a work permit - all under Biden-era immigration policies.
But his work visa expired in March, making him illegally present in the country at the time of the attack.
Homan seized on the attack as proof of what he called the Biden administration's reckless approach to immigration.
'Even through the legal process, the Biden administration was bringing people in unvetted, handing out work visas like they're candy,' he said.
While Biden campaigned in 2020 on restoring America's image as a haven for the persecuted, his administration's policies soon faced backlash from both political opponents and Democratic-led cities burdened by the sheer number of incoming migrants.
As the crisis deepened, Biden's team shifted strategies combining tougher asylum rules with new pathways for legal migration.
Still, arrests at the border skyrocketed to historic levels during his tenure before declining ahead of Trump's inauguration for a second term in January.
Homan's warnings come as the Trump administration touts its sweeping crackdown on illegal immigration: new mass deportation efforts, expanded ICE raids, and even the use of US military planes to deport migrants - in some cases sending them to the Guantanamo Bay detention center or El Salvador.
Since Trump's return to office, about 6,500 active-duty troops have been deployed to the southern border, a massive increase over previous years.
While these troops don't directly interact with migrants, they assist Border Patrol in surveillance and detection operations, a necessary reinforcement as the administration grapples with the fallout from what Homan calls 'four years of chaos.'
Critics argue that Biden's policies and his decision to hand immigration responsibilities to Vice President Kamala Harris early in his first term created an enforcement vacuum.
Harris, tasked with addressing the 'root causes' of migration, made a single trip to the border nearly six months into Biden's presidency, drawing criticism from opponents for what they saw as a lack of urgency.
Homan says only now are the consequences becoming apparent.
'We are looking for the bad guys while protesters assault ICE officers and members of Congress grandstand outside our facilities,' Homan fumed.