At Monday’s White House press briefing, Border Czar Tom Homan gave an estimate for the number of individuals in the United States illegally.
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00:00Thanks a lot, Caroline. Mr. Holman, a question for you. Here the borders are. Can you give an estimate as to how many individuals are in the United States illegally? That's number one. And I'm sure you're very familiar with that number and estimate.
00:13And the second question is, I have a list that the White House put out of individuals, 100 ICE arrests since the beginning of the president's term, and the people are arrested for various, very serious crimes. First degree murder, convicted of rape, convicted of murder and aggravated burglary, sexual assault of a child.
00:35How many of the individuals that are in the United States illegally are people like this, really bad people?
00:44Well, first of all, how many illegal aliens, I think, in the United States? At least 20 million. Here's a word to come up with that number. We've been speaking about 12 million for 20 years.
00:53We know we got 10.5 that we know of came to the border. How many don't we know of? I talk about known gotaways at 2 million. How many unknown gotaways do we have?
01:01Like, between the Big Bend sector in Texas, where there's no technology, how many thousand people dig across from there? We wouldn't know. We would know now.
01:10But, you know, so I would venture over 20 million. But your question is, last count, we got, last I looked, there was about 700,000 illegal aliens with criminal charges walking the streets of this country.
01:22700,000. And that's what we're looking for now. That's what we're prioritizing. Them and national security threats.