At a White House press briefing, Border Czar Tom Homan slammed former President Biden's record on the border and praised President Trump's.
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00:00I started in the Border Patrol in 1984. I've been at this for over 40 years, and I've worked for six presidents, starting with Ronald Reagan.
00:08Every president I ever worked for took border security seriously, because you can't have national security if you don't have strong border security.
00:16We've got to know who's coming in, what's coming in, where's coming in, why's coming in, right?
00:20Even President Obama and President Clinton took some steps to secure the border, because they understood national security was important.
00:26Joe Biden was the first president in the history of this nation who came into office and unsecured a border on purpose.
00:34That's just a fact.
00:36We handed the Biden administration, after President Trump's first administration, we handed the Biden administration the most secure border in my lifetime, and he unsecured it on purpose.
00:48Now, President Trump and this administration here, their success is unprecedented.
00:54We beat Trump's first administration on border success.
00:59Border numbers are historic low.
01:01Today, as I'm standing here, we are the most secure border in the history of this nation, and the numbers prove it.
01:10President Trump's policies are saving lives every day.
01:14There's been studies done that says 31% of women that make that journey through use of cartels get sexually assaulted.
01:19When President Trump has illegal immigration down 96%, when 96% less people are coming, how many women aren't being sexually assaulted by the cartels?
01:30How many children aren't dying making that journey?
01:33How many women and children aren't being sex trafficked into this nation?
01:37How many known inspector terrorists aren't making it into this country?
01:39How many pounds of fentanyl isn't getting into this country to kill young Americans?
01:47How many women and children aren't sex trafficked?
01:50Under Joe Biden, sex trafficking is up 600%.
01:53We had 4,000 aliens dying making that journey.
01:56We had a quarter million Americans dead from fentanyl that came across an open border.
02:00President Trump's policy saves lives every day.
02:03Even the border wall saves lives.
02:06The people want to hate on the border wall?
02:07Every place a border barrier has been built, illegal immigration's declined, illegal drug flows decline.
02:13What you know what no one talks about?
02:15The border wall saves lives.
02:17Because the most vulnerable, the women and children, can't get over that wall.
02:20Which means they're going to a place where there's not a wall.
02:23And what's waiting on them?
02:24The men and women, the United States border, who will take care of those humanitarian needs.
02:28The health needs are off the bat.
02:31We just rolled the numbers.
02:32Let me talk about a few numbers that are important to me.
02:36Under the Biden administration, we averaged over 11,000 many days, over 12,000, some days, 15,000, illegal entrants to the United States.
02:4715,000.
02:49You know what the number was the last 24 hours?
02:52178.
02:5315,000 to 178.
02:57Unprecedented success.
02:59On an average day in the Biden administration, known gotaways.
03:02People we knew crossed the border, because they were on video, drone traffic, or sensor traffic.
03:08Crossed the border, weren't apprehended, weren't fingerprinted, and weren't vetted.
03:12Average day under Joe Biden, more than 1,800 gotaways.
03:17Yesterday, 38.
03:1938 too many, we'll get that at zero.
03:23But we went from 1,800 to 38.
03:25And finally, as was said earlier, under the first 100 days, or it was actually January 20th, April 1st,
03:34last year, 184,000 illegal aliens were released into the United States.
03:40Under this administration, nine.
03:42Four of them were material witnesses and a criminal investigation.
03:46We need them here to testify in a serious criminal trial.
03:49Four was extreme medical condition.
03:51We couldn't return them, because they were in such bad shape.
03:54And one was humanitarian issue.
03:57This is unprecedented success.
04:00The border secure.
04:02President Trump saving lives.
04:04President Trump has proven no one does this better than President Trump.
04:09There is no equal.
04:09It's not even close.
04:10So, God bless the men and women of the Border Patrol.
04:14God bless the men and women of ICE, who strap a gun to the hip every day, put on a Kevlar vest,
04:19to not only secure our border and protect our national security, but the ICE agents in the interior.
04:24They're removing public safety threats and national security threats every day.
04:28While you're all sleeping at 2, 3 o'clock in the morning,
04:31there are men and women out there enforcing law to make this country safe again.
04:35And we're going to keep doing it, full speed ahead.
04:40So, I'll leave it at that.
04:41Awesome.