The Greatest Deportation Operation in American History ft. Border Czar Tom Homan artwork

The Greatest Deportation Operation in American History ft. Border Czar Tom Homan

The Charlie Kirk Show

January 5, 2026

Tom Homan was supposed to be retired, but he has returned to the fray one last time to spearhead President Trump's unprecedented operation to secure the border, undo the Biden immigration disaster, and expel the millions of people who should not be in our country.
Speakers: Charlie Kirk, Tom Homan
**Charlie Kirk** (0:03)
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**SPEAKER_3** (1:09)
But without further ado, Tom Homan, the great Tom Homan.

**SPEAKER_4** (1:30)
I think that's the biggest round of applause we've gotten for any of these guys so far.

**SPEAKER_3** (1:33)
And you know why we're all here. We're gonna be talking about marginal tax rates. Health care, what do we got here? Yeah, Israel, no. Borders are, Mr. Borders are, Tom Homan, you are an American folk hero at this point. You're an American hero, you're my hero as well.
You are tasked with overseeing probably the most important political plank, President Trump's 2024 election, I would say, in his campaign. And that would be deportations, making sure the bad guys get removed from our country and you have a heck of a job dealing with a lot of these blue states, blue cities, blue counties, blue mayors. Why don't you just give us an update of how the task is unfolding?

**Tom Homan** (2:25)
All right. So when President Trump, I was the first guy he called. When he called me, he's, and I agreed to come back, which my wife's still pissed off about. How many times are you going to unretire? Anyway, so.

**SPEAKER_3** (2:41)
You're like Michael Jordan of Deporters.

**Tom Homan** (2:44)
He asked me, he said, look, I want you to oversee three things. I need to secure the border. I need to run the biggest deportation operation in the nation's history, and we need to find these 300,000 missing kids. So where are we at? We got the most secure border right now in the history of this country.
I just got back a few days ago. I went to Texas border, I went to Arizona border, and I went to the California border. I toured the border by air, in the river on boat, and a four-wheel drive on some of the most treacherous parts of the border. In three days, I didn't see a single illegal alien. Now, contrast that with 10,000 a day under the previous administration. So, look, I don't take credit for any of this. It's a men and women of the Border Patrol, men and women wearing that uniform, that stand in that line every day. God bless each and every Border Patrol agent. I love them each and every one of them. And none of this wouldn't have happened unless we had President Trump in the Oval Office, who happens to be the greatest president in my lifetime. Bottom line, hard stop. So, and when he told me, he says, these are the three things. So, we're going to lock the border down. We've done it before. We did it in Trump 45 But the numbers this year in Trump 47 are far better than Trump 45 Daily people coming to the border, across 2,000 miles of border, is after about 160 And every one of them are being turned around. No one's being released in the United States.
Deportation operation. He promised the country of historic deportation operations. It's already historic. More people have been deported since he's been in office in less than one year than any time in history of this nation. The biggest year we ever had was FY12. FY12, there was 409,000 people removed. We're at over 650,000 and we're not even done yet. So the president's delivering on record deportation, despite the sanctuary cities, despite the protesters, despite the hate, the men and women of ICE are getting this done at an amazing rate. The children. That was the toughest of all three. Let me tell you why. Because we can find you. You own a home, you got a car, you have credit cards, you pay bills. You have a digital footprint. Kids don't. So we had to rely on the digital footprint of the unvetted sponsors. Many of the addresses the agents are going to are parking lots. Most of these addresses were never checked. A lot of these sponsors weren't even fingerprinted. No DNA testing. So a half a million children, a half a million, were smuggled across the border under Joe Biden. Many victims of trafficking. So they lost track of 300,000. They couldn't find them. 300,000. I'm happy to report, as of this week, the Trump administration has found 129,000.

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