'The Alien's To Blame': Border Czar Tom Homan Defends Trump Admin After Deporting Migrant By Mistake [View all]

Source: Huff Post

Apr 12, 2025, 03:32 PM EDT


Border czar Tom Homan is defending the Trump administration’s decision to deport 29-year-old Maryland father Kilmar Abrego Garcia to a brutal prison camp in El Salvador, even though the administration admitted his removal was due to an “administrative error.”

“The alien’s to blame. The aliens are to blame when they enter this country illegally,” Homan told Newsmax’s Chris Salcedo on Saturday, claiming that if Abrego Garcia had not unlawfully entered the U.S in the first place, he would not be held at the notorious Salvadorian prison.

Abrego Garcia, who is married to a U.S. citizen, was working in the country legally as a sheet metal apprentice under a permit. He was originally barred from deportation in 2019 after an immigration judge ruled that he would likely face persecution by local gangs back in his native country of El Salvador.

However, Abrego Garcia was deported last month after the Trump administration claimed he was a member of the MS-13 gang. Homan repeated the administration’s allegations on Salcedo’s show despite Abrego Garcia’s attorney saying there was no evidence he was in a gang.

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