Former acting ICE Director Tom Homan on Wednesday blasted House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi for calling a border wall ineffective and accusing President Trump of “fear mongering” with the illegal immigration issue.
“Every place a wall or barrier has been built, it has resulted in decreased illegal immigration, decreased drug smuggling. One hundred percent of the time, it has proven effective,” Mr. Homan said on Fox News, where he is a contributor.
“Look at the rest of the data on the border, where arrests of MS-13 [gang] this year are up 118 percent, the seizures of guns — for God’s sake — are up almost 200 percent. There’s your data. Look at it. You can see why we need a wall,” he said.
Mr. Homan, a veteran of the Border Patrol agent and investigator for Immigration and Customs Enforcement, said Mr. Trump was “doing the right thing” in shutting down the government in a fight with Democrats over funding a wall or barrier on the border with Mexico.
The partial shutdown began Saturday, affecting about 25 percent of the federal government, including the Department of Homeland Security.
Mrs. Pelosi told USA Today that Mr. Trump was using the wall to “fear monger.”
“He talked about terrorists coming in over that particular border, which wasn’t so. He talked about people bringing in diseases and all the rest of that, which wasn’t so,” said Mrs. Pelosi, who is poised to become speaker when Democrats take control of the House next week. “He’s using scare tactics that are not evidence-based, and it’s wrong.”
Mr. Homan said Mrs. Pelosi is “100 percent wrong.”
“Allow me to educate Mrs. Pelosi,” he said. “As far as crime coming across the border, ICE arrested 138,000 criminals last year. These are people who entered the country illegally and committed crimes against the people of this country.”
(Via: Washington Times)
Blog Author's Comments: If walls don't work, why do the Pelosi’s have a wall around their home? Not one so-called ‘journalist’ within the ranks of televised networks has ever asked her, why she is more concerned with the illegal invaders than the citizens of her own country? But, without open borders, how can the Democrats continue to populate their illegal sanctuary cities and states? Pelosi has one agenda to follow, and that is to stop President Trump no matter the consequences.
Almost all of the reporters are also following the same narrative. The following is for the benefit of American citizens. Facts: According to the Huffington Post, the average federal employee costs taxpayers $120,000 yearly. If the government were to cut a large number of the 380,000 non-essential jobs affected by the shutdown, it would save the taxpayers way more than it would cost to fully fund the wall. I say it is now time to build the wall and help protect our own citizens.
President Trump said On Friday: We will be forced to close the Southern Border entirely if the Obstructionist Democrats do not give us the money to finish the Wall and also change the ridiculous immigration laws that our Country is saddled with. Hard to believe there was a Congress and President who would approve!
He also added: Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador are doing nothing for the United States but taking our money. Word is that a new Caravan is forming in Honduras and they are doing nothing about it. We will be cutting off all aid to these 3 countries they have been taking advantage of U.S. for years!
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