President Donald Trump’s “border czar” Tom Homan doubled down on the administration’s mass deportation campaign on Monday, saying he plans to continue the aggressive roundups and removals despite court rulings and injunctions halting them.

“We’re not stopping,” Homan told Fox News in an interview. “I don’t care what the judges think. I don’t care what the left thinks. We’re coming.”
In recent weeks, several judges have put a halt to some elements of the deportation effort, including a federal judge on Saturday who ordered that planes carrying suspected Venezuelan gang members be turned back to the United States while on their way to El Salvadoran prisons.
The Trump administration has deported as many as 300 alleged members of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua under the Alien Enemies Act despite Chief U.S. Judge James Boasberg’s order in Washington, D.C., blocking the flights under the 1798 law last wielded during World War II.

Boasberg’s order Saturday came after Trump issued a proclamation, which he had signed the day before, targeting Tren de Aragua members for immediate deportations under the 18th century law. Trump’s order said the gang “continues to engage in mass illegal migration to the United States to further its objectives of harming United States citizens.”
Homan’s comments to Fox came as a legal and political showdown looms over whether the Trump administration can continue to deport suspected gang members in the United States in apparent defiance of court orders. A Brown University kidney doctor was also flown out of the country.
The Trump administration says the suspected Tren de Aragua members are being deported on national security concerns. But lawyers say they have not been given due process, and legal questions about the weekend activity is the focus of court battles on Monday and expected throughout the week.

“Let’s be clear: we are not at war, and immigrants are not invading our country,” four Democratic members of the Senate Judiciary Committee said in a statement criticizing the deportations. “Furthermore, courts determine whether people have broken the law — not a president acting alone, and not immigration agents picking and choosing who gets imprisoned or deported.”