U.S. President Donald Trump’s “border czar” Tom Homan speaks throughout a press briefing on the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., April 28, 2025.
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President Donald Trump’s administration plans to target more businesses for immigration enforcement after a raid on a Hyundai facility in Georgia led to a whole lot of arrests, a top White House official mentioned on Sunday.
Speaking on NCS’s “State of the Union,” White House border czar Tom Homan mentioned the administration would intensify the deal with workplaces.
“We’re going to do more worksite enforcement operations,” Homan mentioned. “No one hires an illegal alien out of the goodness of their heart. They hire them because they can work them harder, pay them less, undercut the competition that hires U.S. citizen employees.” Opponents of Trump’s crackdown and a few enterprise teams say main U.S. industries — together with agriculture, hospitality and meatpacking — rely on immigrants with out authorized standing.
U.S. immigration authorities arrested 475 individuals on immigration violations throughout the raid of the Hyundai facility on Thursday, most of whom have been South Korean nationals. The South Korean authorities mentioned on Sunday that the employees can be returned as soon as administrative procedures have been accomplished.
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.
A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement official mentioned throughout a press convention on Friday that a number of the individuals arrested on the facility had crossed the border illegally and overstayed visas. A separate ICE official advised Reuters that many had visas for vacationers and enterprise vacationers that don’t embody a piece allow.
The arrests in Georgia adopted more durable rhetoric by Trump on unlawful immigration. For weeks, Trump and his top officers have steered the administration may ship National Guard troops and federal officers to Chicago to target crime and immigration.
In a Truth Social submit on Saturday, Trump posted a meme based mostly on the 1979 Vietnam struggle film “Apocalypse Now” that confirmed a picture of the Chicago skyline with flames and helicopters, paying homage to the lethal helicopter assault on a Vietnamese village within the movie.
On NCS, Homan defended the meme, which has been closely criticized by Chicago residents and others for its warlike imagery and suggestion that the town is a army target. He mentioned it was being taken out of context and that the Trump administration was solely going to struggle with criminals and people violating immigration legal guidelines.