LIVE: Border Czar Homan gives press conference

Border Czar Homan: As a result of this surge operation, we have greatly reduced the number of targets for enforcement action, and many criminal aliens have been arrested and taken off the streets. Including murderers, sex offenders, national security threats, gangmembers, and other violent criminals…we will enforce immigration law against all persons in the United States illegally.

Border Czar Homan: We now have the ability to arrest criminal aliens in the safety and security of jails throughout the state at the time they are being released, like we've done in other states.

Border Czar Homan: We have already arrested more than two hundred people for violations of U.S.C. 111 [assaulting, resisting, impeding federal officers]. The U.S. attorney's office has already accepted many for prosecutions, and some are still pending. I have also received commitments from state and local law enforcement that they will respond if federal law enforcement is being impeded or assaulted. They will shut down unlawful agitator activity, including arresting agitators involved.

Border Czar Homan: In addition to taking public safety threats off the streets, ICE, here in this state, have located three thousand, three hundred and sixty-four missing, unaccompanied alien children. Children the last administration lost and weren't even looking for. That's because the leadership of President Trump these children were located.

Border Czar Homan: With that, and success that has been made arresting public safety threats and other priorities since this surge operation began, as well as the unprecedented levels of coordination we have obtained from state officials and local law enforcement, I have proposed, and President Trump has concurred, that this surge operation conclude.

Border Czar Homan: Additionally, federal government personnel assigned to conduct criminal investigation into the agitators, as well as the personnel assigned here for the fraud investigations, will remain in place until the work is done.

Border Czar Homan: I hear all the hate; you should arrest everybody. But we are. But we're prioritizing those who are the biggest threat to our community. The rapists, the murderers, the child molesters. That's the right thing to do. I'll say it again, President Trump made a promise of mass deportations, and that's what this country's gonna get.