Border Czar Tom Homan Says US Justified in Deporting Abrego Garcia to El Salvador

‘The length of due process is not the same under the Alien Enemies Act.,’ he says.

White House border czar Tom Homan speaks to reporters at the White House in Washington on April 15, 2025. Madalina Vasiliu/The Epoch Times

White House border czar Tom Homan said Sunday that the administration followed the law when it deported an illegal immigrant the government says is an MS-13 gang member, and who has become the subject of Democratic criticism of the Trump administration’s policies.

Earlier this month, the U.S. Supreme Court ordered the Trump administration to “facilitate” the return of Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia to the United States from a Salvadoran prison. The White House has said that it can’t retrieve Abrego Garcia after deporting him to his home country despite a 2019 order preventing his deportation there. The Trump administration initially said it had made an “administrative error” in deporting him.