Tom Homan Takes CBS News’ Tony Dokoupil To Task For Asking ‘Where’s The Heart’ In Mass Deportations



Jason Cohen DCNF Reporter/Clipper
January 08, 2026 10:16 AM ET

Border czar Tom Homan pushed back hard on Wednesday when “CBS Evening News” anchor Tony Dokoupil asked, “Where’s the heart,” in President Donald Trump’s administration’s deportations.

During Dokoupil’s extended interview with Homan, the CBS News anchor quoted Trump from his October 2024 meeting with The Wall Street Journal’s editorial board, in which the then-candidate said “we have to have the heart” regarding mass deportations. When Dokoupil followed up, asking, “Where’s the heart in this?” Homan defended the policy and those enforcing it.

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“[Immigration and Customs Enforcement] ICE doing everything they can to enforce the laws enacted by Congress,” Homan said. “ICE said the vast majority of everybody they arrest are public safety threats. They’re making this country safe.”

“I want people to remember this. ICE agents, Border patrol agents, are mothers and fathers, too. They don’t hang their heart on the hook every day they come to work. They got a tough job … Enforcing the law sometimes is sad,” he added. “But because of the actions of President Trump, thousands of lives are being saved every month. Ninety-six percent less people are coming because they know there’s consequences now, which means the most vulnerable people in the world aren’t giving the criminal cartels their life savings to make that dangerous journey.”

Homan asserted that sex trafficking had plunged and that the Trump administration had located more than 129,000 migrant children out of 300,000 that former President Joe Biden’s administration “lost track of and wasn’t even looking for.” He also pledged that the Trump administration would locate all of the missing children.

“The heart is a secure border saves lives. The heart is less sex trafficking is occurring. The heart is we’re finding missing children the last administration released children without properly vetting who the sponsors were,” Homan said. “We’re looking for these children, and a lot of the addresses were going to parking lots and supermarkets … they didn’t even check the address where these children were going to.”

During Trump’s second term, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has deported over 622,000 illegal migrants, according to the administration. Moreover, another 1.9 million illegal migrants opted to self-deport.

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