Thomas Homan, the acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, said that President Donald Trump told him, "You can now do your job."
"He basically told the Border Patrol agents and the 20,000 American patriots that work for ICE that you can now do your job, you will enforce laws on your books. There's no population of alien that's off the table anymore and we've been waiting on that for almost a decade now," Homan said in a Fox News interview with Neil Cavuto.
Illegal immigrants who are a threat to public safety remain a higher priority, Homan said. "We're going to enforce law without apology," he said.
Homan said the MS-13 gang is a "criminal syndicate" that is in more than 40 states and gains money through prostitution, drugs, sex trafficking, and illegal firearms.
"They victimize the very communities they live in. They've spread and they've got our attention . . . we're coming after them very hard," Homan said in the Fox News interview.
On Wednesday, Homan sent a warning to MS-13. "My gang is bigger," Homan said in a Daily Caller interview.
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