Border czar Tom Homan said on Thursday that the Trump administration has arrested about 40,000 people who were illegally residing within the United States, claiming that most of them were threats to public or national security.

Homan on Thursday defended President Donald Trump’s immigration policies during a roundtable discussion in Sarasota, Florida, hosted by Gov. Ron DeSantis with Chad Wolf of the America First Policy Institute and New College of Florida President Richard Corcoran.

During the discussion, Homan accused the previous administration of “rewriting statute” on immigration.

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