Tom Homan

We will draw down 700 people defected today.

700 law enforcement personnel.

We currently have an unprecedented number of counties communicating with us now and allowing ICE to take custody of illegal aliens before they hit the streets.

Unprecedented cooperation.

And I'll say it again, this is efficient, requires only one or two officers to assume custody of a criminal alien target rather than eight or 10 officers going into the community and arresting that public safety threat.

This frees up more officers to arrest or remove criminal aliens.

More officers taking custody of criminal aliens directly from the jails means less officers on the street doing criminal operations.

I also want to reiterate and emphasize we are not requiring jails to hold people past their normal release time.

for immigration purposes.

We're not asking anyone to be an immigration officer.

We are not asking any state or local official to do immigration enforcement activity.

They are not by merely notifying us before they release them.

They don't hold them one minute past they normally would.

Given this increase in unprecedented collaboration and as a result of the need for less law enforcement officers to do this work in a safer environment, I have announced effective immediately we will draw down

700 people affected today.

700 law enforcement personnel.

Every chief I talked to, every one of them, promised to respond immediately.

to any public safety issue when our officers are out doing their sworn duty and people start crossing the line and they start impediment, interference.

Every police chief has committed to doing their job and enforce public safety.

We talked to a lot of sheriffs throughout the nation.