![\"\"](\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/AP18116818476881.jpg\")
In this Thursday, April 26, 2018 photo, then-U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement acting director Thomas Homan speaks during an interview in East Point, Ga. (John Bazemore\/AP Photo)<\/p><\/div>\n
By Sandy Fitzgerald | NEWSMAX<\/p>\n
The crisis unfolding at the nation’s border with Mexico was “planned” during President Joe Biden’s presidential campaign,\u00a0former acting ICE director Tom Homan said\u00a0Monday.<\/p>\n
“They can’t admit to the American people that they planned this crisis,” Homan said on\u00a0Fox News’ “Fox and Friends.”<\/a>\u00a0“When Joe Biden made those promises during the campaign, of ending ICE detention, ending the ‘Remain in Mexico’ program, giving amnesty and DACA and healthcare, when you make those types of promises, you know they’re going to come.”<\/p>\n Homan’s comments come ahead of a trip Monday\u00a0to the border area near El Paso<\/a>\u00a0by\u00a0House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy and a congressional delegation. The group is set to\u00a0tour a processing facility being used for illegal immigrants\u00a0as well as\u00a0other sites.<\/p>\n McCarthy will be accompanied by GOP Reps. John Katko of\u00a0New York; Chuck Fleischmann of\u00a0Tennessee; Clay Higgins of\u00a0Louisiana; Tony Gonzales of\u00a0Texas; Michael Cloud of\u00a0Texas; Carlos Gimenez of\u00a0Florida; Yvette Herrell of\u00a0New Mexico; David Joyce of Ohio; Mariannette Miller-Meeks of\u00a0Iowa; August Pfluger of\u00a0Texas; John Rose of Tennessee; and Maria Salazar of\u00a0Florida, reports\u00a0KFOX14 in El Paso<\/a>.<\/p>\n “On the border, we see that Biden’s policies created a border crisis,” McCarthy said last week when announcing the trip. “President Biden announced that it was his priority to offer citizenship for 11 million undocumented immigrants. What did he think would happen?”<\/p>\n Democrats such as New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren used trips to the border during the Trump administration to draw attention to conditions they decried as subpar and that they argued were\u00a0the\u00a0result of Trump administration policies.<\/p>\n Biden, meanwhile, had campaigned on a promise to offer more assistance to people seeking refugee status in the United States, which Republicans say is attracting record numbers of illegal immigrants.<\/p>\n White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki, however, has said it’s “absolutely incorrect” to refer to Biden’s policy as “open borders,” as the “vast majority of individuals apprehended or encountered at the border continue to be denied entry and are returned.”<\/p>\n Homan told Fox News on Monday morning that the numbers of “alien children” were down 70% in 2020 from the year before.<\/p>\n “Illegal immigration was down 50-80% depending on what month you looked at,” he said. The border is not secure, he added, “because the Biden administration has undone all the success of the Trump administration. You got a job to do. Educate yourself, give me a call. I\u2019ll tell you how to fix it, but you can\u2019t go on national TV and say this is President Trump\u2019s fault.”<\/p>\n Homan said when promises are made,\u00a0people expect they are going to happen.<\/p>\n “They can\u2019t go on national TV and say we sold out America to win an election,” Homan said. “Joe Biden can\u2019t say I folded to the left to get votes and gave up the security of the border. Again, the most secure border we\u2019ve ever seen (was) under President Trump.”<\/p>\n
\n“Last month, Joe Biden\u2019s policy created a 300% increase in alien children” coming across the border.<\/p>\n