Despite negative media coverage of the Trump administration's efforts to combat illegal immigration, nearly 73% of Americans support deporting illegal immigrants who have committed crimes, according to a recent Harvard/Harris poll.
Border czar Tom Homan told Newsmax on Wednesday that the vast majority of illegal migrants being deported are "national security threats" and the mainstream media are "skewing everything" the administration is doing.
"They're out there saying we're separating families and deporting somebody who has been here for 50 years and has cancer. I looked at the numbers today and there are about 130,000 interior arrests, and more than 90,000 of them are convicted criminals with pending criminal charges," Homan said on "Rob Schmitt Tonight."
Homan said the polls show that Americans know what immigration officers are doing to protect them.
"The majority we are arresting are criminals and national security threats, public safety threats in sanctuary cities where we're forcing the community to find a bad guy because the authorities won't let us in the jail."
"We're going to find illegal aliens, and they're going to get arrested, too. The facts are we are still prioritizing public safety threats, national security threats," he said.
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