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Tom Homan: “President Trump sent me there to fix that problem, and we…”

Featuring: Tom Homan, Border Czar, Trump Administration | National

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Extended interview: Tom Homan says ICE embraced "smarter" deportation tactics after Minneapolis

Published | Video Starts at 14:21

And I said on the stage my first time, you know, I didn't go up there looking for photo ops. I didn't go up there looking for TV cameras. I went up there to fix a problem because President Trump sent me there to fix that problem, and we fixed it. And as I said up there, we're going to do smarter enforcement. Smarter enforcement don't mean less enforcement. Did I like what was going on? No. Everything wasn't perfect. (14:21–14:25)

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