U.S. President Donald Trump's "border czar" Tom Homan speaks during a property briefing astatine the White House successful Washington, D.C., U.S., April 28, 2025.
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President Donald Trump's medication plans to people much businesses for migration enforcement aft a raid connected a Hyundai installation successful Georgia led to hundreds of arrests, a apical White House authoritative said connected Sunday.
Speaking connected CNN's "State of the Union," White House borderline czar Tom Homan said the medication would intensify the absorption connected workplaces.
"We're going to bash much worksite enforcement operations," Homan said. "No 1 hires an amerciable alien retired of the goodness of their heart. They prosecute them due to the fact that they tin enactment them harder, wage them less, undercut the contention that hires U.S. national employees." Opponents of Trump's crackdown and immoderate concern groups accidental large U.S. industries — including agriculture, hospitality and meatpacking — beryllium connected immigrants without ineligible status.
U.S. migration authorities arrested 475 radical connected migration violations during the raid of the Hyundai installation connected Thursday, astir of whom were South Korean nationals. The South Korean authorities said connected Sunday that the workers would beryllium returned erstwhile administrative procedures were completed.
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security did not instantly respond to a petition for comment.
A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement authoritative said during a property league connected Friday that immoderate of the radical arrested astatine the installation had crossed the borderline illegally and overstayed visas. A abstracted ICE authoritative told Reuters that galore had visas for tourists and concern travelers that bash not see a enactment permit.
The arrests successful Georgia followed tougher rhetoric by Trump connected amerciable immigration. For weeks, Trump and his apical officials person suggested the medication could nonstop National Guard troops and national officers to Chicago to people transgression and immigration.
In a Truth Social station connected Saturday, Trump posted a meme based connected the 1979 Vietnam warfare movie "Apocalypse Now" that showed an representation of the Chicago skyline with flames and helicopters, reminiscent of the deadly chopper onslaught connected a Vietnamese colony successful the film.
On CNN, Homan defended the meme, which has been heavy criticized by Chicago residents and others for its warlike imagery and proposition that the metropolis is simply a subject target. He said it was being taken retired of discourse and that the Trump medication was lone going to warfare with criminals and those violating migration laws.
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