Border czar Tom Homan said roughly 1.6 million undocumented immigrants have self-deported since President Donald Trump took office.

In an interview with Fox News’ Laura Ingraham, Homan highlighted the administration’s progress in reducing illegal immigration. When she asked him about California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s plan to require Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents to refrain from wearing masks, Homan replied, “Well, good luck with that. Federal law always trumps state law, local law.”

He further explained that ICE agents are “afraid of people like him — politicians who want to compare ICE to the Nazis” and that Newsom is “the one with the hateful rhetoric causing this, causing all these threats.”

The agents “wear a mask because they don’t want to be doxxed and their kids get doxxed and their spouses get doxxed,” according to Homan, who affirmed that they have “identifying information” on them.

Threats and assaults against ICE agents have surged over the past year, with the Department of Homeland Security reporting a 500 percent increase in June and more than 1,000 percent by September. Incidents included physical attacks, shootings, and the doxxing of agents and their families.

Homan further stated that the Trump administration is “not going to coddle to Governor Newsom” and that Newsom “ought to be thanking President Trump for making his state safer.”

The discussion then shifted to deportation statistics. Homan mentioned that the administration has deported over 400,000 individuals since the president took office. “Between CBP and ICE, and that’s just since the president took office. The first four months of the fiscal year — we can’t count them because Joe Biden wasn’t doing anything,” he said.

He further stated that “close to 1.6 million already left the country on their own…because they see what ICE is doing out there every day.”

The agency is expanding, Homan explained. “ICE is getting 10,000 more agents right now…we’re tripling the size of the workforce. We’re adding more detention beds. We’re adding more flights and more transportation. So the numbers are going to explode here.”

Tom Homan says nearly 1.6 million illegal immigrants have self-deported after President Trump took office. pic.twitter.com/67I9Fikyuc

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