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‘We’re Not Stopping’: Trump Border Czar Vows to Ignore Judges

Tom Homan’s remarks come as the administration stands accused of violating court orders halting deportations.

WASHINGTON, DC - MARCH 17: White House Border Czar Tom Homan talks with reporters on the driveway outside the West Wing on March 17, 2025 in Washington, DC. Homan defended President Donald Trump's use of the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to send Venezuelan migrants to El Salvador over the weekend even after a federal judge had ordered that the planes reverse course and return the detainees to the United States. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

(Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

By Amethyst Martinez

Border czar Tom Homan pledged to openly defy judges who get in the way of President Donald Trump’s immigration agenda.

“We’re not stopping,” Homan said on Fox & Friends Monday morning. “I don’t care what the judges think. I don’t care what the left thinks. We’re coming.”

Homan’s remarks come as the Trump administration stands accused of violating judicial orders halting deportations. On Saturday, a federal judge blocked the president from deporting suspected members of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua without a hearing. But two planes carrying more than 250 migrants landed in El Salvador nonetheless.

Karoline Leavitt, the White House secretary, was asked about Homan’s remarks during a White House press conference on Monday.

“I can assure you that the administration is complying with the court order,” Leavitt said. “And as I’ve said repeatedly from this podium: All of the flights that were subject to the judge’s written order departed before the written order, and we are prepared to make that case in court.”

In denying the administration violated the courts, Leavitt has stressed that the judge’s written order was filed after the plane departed and questioned the legitimacy of the judge’s verbal order, which came before.

“The written order and the Administration’s actions do not conflict,” she said in a statement on Sunday.

In the same statement, however, she questioned the legitimacy of the judge’s authority.

“A single judge in a single city cannot direct the movements of an aircraft carrier full of foreign alien terrorists who were physically expelled from U.S. soil,” she said.

Homan touted the administration’s immigration efforts in a post on X the day before his Fox News appearance.

"Under President Trump’s leadership, this country is becoming safer every day," Homan wrote. “With each criminal illegal alien being deported, neighborhoods are becoming safer.”

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