Biden broke the border on purpose: Tom Homan

"Joe Biden was the first president in the history of this nation who came into office and unsecured the border on purpose," said Homan, who has been working in border security for forty years under six presidents. "That's just a fact."

"We 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."

When Joe Biden took office in January 2021, he reversed many of Trump's executive orders on border security, including putting a stop to building the border wall, something his administration would later try to pick up and restart. He announced that the country would allow in any unaccompanied minor, spurring human trafficking of children across the border. Trump and his team have vowed to put a stop to that.

"Border numbers are historical," Homan told press. "Today, as I'm standing here, we have the most secure border in the history of this nation, and the numbers prove it. President Trump's policies are saving lives every day." He said that 31 percent of the women who cross the border are sexually assaulted by cartels. Illegal immigration is down 96 percent, reducing the number of sexual assaults and the deaths of children from the journey.

"Under the Biden administration," Homan said, "we averaged over 11,000 [illegal border crossers] many days, over 12,000 some days," noting that at times it was over 15,000. "You know the number was in the last 24 hours? 178," he said. He promised to get the number to zero.

Later in the briefing, Homan noted another loophole that was used by the Biden administration to keep illegal immigrants in the US. "The Biden administration, released millions of people into the United States. No one ever talks about it. Why did they release people into the interior United States rather than put them into an ICE bed?

"Why not put them in an empty ICE bed, $27 a night rather than a hotel room at $500 bucks a night? They did it on purpose. Because when you put them in an ICE detention bed, they get a hearing in 35 days. Court records show, 9 out of 10 people who claim asylum, get an order of removal, they're gone," Homan said.

"But if you release them and put them in an hotel room at $500 bucks a night, their hearings can be five, seve, nine years. You pull out all appeals. And what are they hoping for? That another Democrat administration is is power, they can award amnesty to millions."

The Biden administration was seeking to create a "pathway to citizenship" for all illegal immigrants currently in the US. His plan, which he began to enact on his first day in office, said that those illegal immigrants who were in the country without legal status prior to his taking office in Janaury 2021 would gain a 5-year temporary legal status, then would be eligible for a green card, at which point they would be eligible for citizenship. This would have created an 8-year path to citizenship.

Those who are illegal immigrants who were minors when their parents brought them to the US, those on temporary protected status, and agricultural workers would become eligible after just three years. There were many other carve-outs for expedited legal status. He attempted many other programs, including one a citizenship program for spouses of citizens. He also rejected the "remain in Mexico" policy, which required asylum seekers to wait outside the US for their hearing.

While in office, Biden boosted refugee admissions, preserved deportation relief for those brought to the US as minors, and did not enforce the law that denies green cards to those who seek to use public benefits. He reversed orders that reduced the number of visas issued while increasing the number of so-called "diversity visas." These are just of few of the measures Biden undertook to increase immigration to the US.