Border Czar Tom Homan went on Fox News and announced something that sent the open-borders Left into a full meltdown.
A California congressman who has his eyes set on the White House in 2028 responded by calling for the total abolition of the agency that just set a record keeping Americans safe.
And the reaction from Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) tells you everything you need to know about where the Democrat Party stands on illegal immigration.
Homan Announces a Record ICE Crackdown
Homan appeared on Fox News with host Dana Perino and delivered numbers that no previous administration had ever posted. “In the last five days, ICE has arrested over 10,000 illegal aliens, which is a record for the agency,” Homan told Perino.
“So we’re hitting on all cylinders. There’s just a lot of these people to find, but we are out there every day looking for them.”
That works out to roughly 2,000 arrests per day. For context, in February, immigration arrests fell to 1,057 a day, according to information from the Deportation Data Project. The new pace is nearly double that.
The enforcement surge did not happen in a vacuum. Reports indicated that the White House had pushed for the increase in arrests after several Trump administration officials, including senior adviser Stephen Miller, had expressed displeasure with the number of arrests being made by ICE officers.
Homan also detailed a separate enforcement effort that has drawn almost no attention from the mainstream press. Federal officials had been able to rescind over 28,000 commercial licenses that were being held by illegal aliens since May 1. Blue state governors handed those licenses out freely. Now ICE is taking them back.
And blue states are not making it easy. “The problem is, we’re working very well with red states; in blue states it’s still a struggle, right? Places like New York, I mean, ICE and CBP can’t even get access to the DMV database!” Homan said.
Khanna Sees 10,000 Arrests and Calls for Abolishing ICE
Most elected officials, when told that law enforcement just set a record removing people who entered the country illegally, would at minimum stay quiet. Khanna went the other direction entirely.
“We cannot ignore their continued abuse and violation of human rights. It’s time to abolish ICE and replace it,” Khanna posted on X.
He attached a video to the post. “I was at the California detention center. I saw someone with blood in his urine who was denied medical care,” he said. “I saw rocks in the food. I saw people shivering because they didn’t have clothes. We need to stop funding ICE that’s violating human rights.”
Khanna’s post got ratioed into the ground on X. The response from ordinary Americans was not sympathetic.
But this is not a new position for Khanna. He has been pushing this line for months. Earlier this year, he introduced what he called a 10-point plan to defund ICE. That plan called for repealing the multi-year $75 billion funding allocation for ICE and initiating impeachment proceedings against Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, Attorney General Pam Bondi, and other officials.
“We need to tear down ICE and have a new agency that has oversight with human rights to enforce immigration law,” Khanna said in a separate interview.
What that replacement agency would actually do differently, he has never made clear. The people ICE arrested over those five days were in the country illegally. That is the law. Khanna wants to abolish the agency enforcing it.
What This Is Really About
Ro Khanna is not just a California congressman upset about immigration enforcement. In 2025 and 2026, Khanna drew broader national attention through town halls in Republican-held districts and appearances in early-voting presidential states, leading several national outlets to describe him as a potential contender for the Democratic presidential nomination in the 2028 presidential election.
Khanna is reportedly being prepared to run for president in 2028 by former President Joe Biden’s chief of staff, Ron Klain. Sources told Politico that Klain is now a chief legal officer at Airbnb, while “using his personal time” to advise Khanna “as he prepares for a possible 2028 presidential bid.”
So when Khanna calls for abolishing ICE the week that ICE sets an all-time arrest record, he is not making a policy argument. He is auditioning for the Democrat base. The party’s activist wing wants ICE gone, and Khanna is telling them he is their guy.
The problem is that the American public does not share that view. Polling has consistently shown majority support for immigration enforcement, including deportations. The voters who handed President Trump a second term made clear where they stood on the border. Khanna is betting that the Democrat primary electorate thinks differently enough to carry him to the nomination.
But there is something worth noting about the timing. ICE just arrested 10,000 people in five days. Some of those people had criminal records. Some did not. Homan has been straightforward about that. The law, however, does not require a criminal conviction before someone can be removed for being in the country illegally. That is how immigration law has always worked, through administrations of both parties.
Khanna’s answer to all of that is to eliminate the agency doing the work. Not reform it. Not add oversight. Abolish it.
And the Democrats wonder why they keep losing working-class voters.
The push to abolish ICE is not a serious law enforcement proposal. It is a strategy to signal to the most radical slice of the Democrat base that Khanna will prioritize illegal aliens over American citizens and the rule of law. Every Democrat who runs on this in 2028 will be handing Republicans a weapon they will use from now until election day. Khanna has been around long enough to know that. He is doing it anyway.
Tom Homan is out there running the most aggressive immigration enforcement operation this country has seen in decades. And a man who wants to be President of the United States just responded by demanding it be shut down.
Sources: The Post Millennial; The Blaze; Fox News / Dana Perino interview with Tom Homan; Ro Khanna X post, July 7, 2026; Khanna.house.gov press release; CNBC; Breitbart; Washington Times; Supply Chain Brain; Washington Examiner