Biden broke the border on purpose: Tom Homan

Border czar Tom Homan joined White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt at a press briefing on Monday to discuss the Trump administration's work on border security during the first 100 days in office. He addressed the border crisis that was left behind by the Biden administration, saying that it was created by that administration "on purpose."

"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.