White House border czar Tom Homan has a one-word answer for anyone asking how many more deportations it will take to fix what decades of open-border policy broke. Millions. Homan sat down with Fox News host Will Cain on Thursday and delivered the clearest statement yet that the Trump administration’s enforcement operation is not slowing down. It is speeding up, and sanctuary cities are the next major target. Homan tells Fox News ‘millions’ more deportations still needed, vows to surge ICE into sanctuary cities as border crossings drop pic.twitter.com/IBjs5zABaG — Fox News Politics (@foxnewspolitics) May 9, 2026 Fox News laid out the scale of Homan’s answer after the interview: Homan pushed back directly on rumors suggesting the administration is ramping down its immigration enforcement surges. He told Cain the opposite is true: he expects the number of arrests and removals to keep rising even as illegal border crossings continue to fall. Resources will keep surging, and sanctuary cities are at the top of the priority list because they create the worst enforcement problems in the country. Homan also challenged the commonly repeated claim that there are 12 million illegal aliens in the United States, calling that figure at least 25 years old and saying he believes the real number is well over 20 million. When Cain pressed him on whether deportations at that scale are even logistically possible, Homan did not hedge. He said he would give it one hell of a shot and that the administration would not walk away from President Trump’s promise to the American people. The message was plain: falling border numbers do not mean the interior-enforcement fight is winding down, especially in the cities where local officials try hardest to block federal agents. The political class has spent months trying to suggest the deportation effort already peaked. Homan gave the opposite answer on national television. Fox News’ Will Cain: How many deportations do we need to set this country’s population back to where it’s actually a country of illegal aliens? Border Czar Tom Homan: “Millions!… I see it all the time there’s 12M illegal aliens in the country. We used 12M, 25 years ago. I… pic.twitter.com/fT042jTENx — RedWave Press (@RedWavePress) May 7, 2026 The hiring push gives Homan’s warning teeth. Fox News also reported how the administration plans to put more people behind the policy: The administration is in the process of hiring 10,000 additional immigration enforcement agents. Roughly 7,000 are already on board and another 3,000 are working through training. Homan explained that the bulk of those new agents should be directed at sanctuary jurisdictions because cooperative states such as Florida and Texas already have sheriffs and police chiefs who work with ICE and honor federal detainers. The problem, Homan said, is in cities and states that lock federal agents out of their jails and refuse to cooperate, even as public-safety threats are released back into communities. Homan also recently delivered a pointed warning to New York Governor Kathy Hochul, telling her he was not asking for permission and that ICE would flood the zone because the state’s posture forced the administration into that position. That is a very different posture from the Biden years. Sanctuary officials are no longer dealing with a federal government looking for reasons to stand down, and the new manpower plan shows the pressure is meant to grow, not fade into another Washington talking point. That is the kind of language that sanctuary-city politicians are not used to hearing from the federal government. For four years under the Biden administration, they had room to stall. Homan is saying that room is gone. Fox News’ Will Cain: What do you say to people who say you can’t logistically deport millions of illegal aliens? Border Czar Tom Homan: “I’ll give it one h*ll of a shot!… We’re not going to give up on President Trump’s promise to the American people on mass deportations. We’re… pic.twitter.com/804vYPkmrc — RedWave Press (@RedWavePress) May 7, 2026 Homan’s interview was a reminder that President Trump did not make a campaign suggestion about mass deportation. He made a promise. And the man he put in charge of keeping that promise just told the country he has no intention of stopping until the job is done. Sanctuary cities can cooperate or they can get flooded. Either way, Homan is making clear the deportation push is moving forward.