Tom Homan Slams 'alligator Alcatraz' Critics Who Stayed Silent On Biden's 'historic Migrant Deaths'

Border czar Tom Homan slammed lawmakers for criticizing nan conditions of "Alligator Alcatraz" — nan nation’s newest detention halfway — while remaining "silent" astir nan migrant decease toll nether erstwhile President Joe Biden. 

"Alligator Alcatraz," which was constructed successful nan alligator-filled swamplands of nan Florida Everglades to deter escapees, has drawn scrutiny complete its conditions, distant location and imaginable biology impact. Critics person questioned whether nan tract is safe, humane aliases due for semipermanent detention.

Homan, however, said nan halfway still meets guidelines nether U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and maintains nan "highest" standards successful nan industry.

"Detainees kick astir nan conditions of detention," Homan said during an quality connected CNN’s "State of nan Union" connected Sunday. "You tin simply spell to ICE.gov and look astatine nan detention standards ICE has. They person nan highest detention standards successful nan industry, but these aforesaid congressmen are complaining astir ‘Alligator Alcatraz.’" 

DEM LAWMAKERS TO INSPECT 'ALLIGATOR ALCATRAZ' DETENTION CENTER, CITING SAFETY CONCERNS

White House 'border czar' Tom Homan speaks during a regular briefing successful Washington, D.C., connected April 28, 2025. (Jim WATSON / AFP via Getty Images)

Homan based on that nan lawmakers condemning nan installation were noticeably absent erstwhile migrant deaths surged nether nan Biden administration.

According to U.S. Customs and Border Protection information obtained by Fox News, 856 migrants died attempting to transverse nan confederate separator successful fiscal twelvemonth 2022 — nan highest number ever recorded astatine nan time.

"You didn't spot them complaining about, nether Biden administration, group being held successful a border patrol parking batch surrounded by a obstruction and sweltering heat," Homan said. "They ignored 4 years of unfastened borders, historical migrant deaths, historical Americans dying from fentanyl, historical numbers of women and children being activity trafficked."

TRUMP SAYS ONLY WAY OUT OF ‘ALLIGATOR ALCATRAZ’ IS DEPORTATION

Beds are seen wrong a migrant detention center, dubbed "Alligator Alcatraz," located astatine nan tract of nan Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport, connected July 1, 2025. (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images)

The separator czar claimed that half a cardinal children were trafficked into nan state during Biden’s presidency — a situation he said was not criticized heavy — and asserted that nan management nether President Donald Trump has done much to find those children.

"You didn't perceive a connection about half a cardinal children being trafficked successful nan state and them not being capable to find 300,000," Homan said. "President Trump, this administration, is uncovering thousands of those children." 

SELF-DEPORT OR END UP IN 'ALLIGATOR ALCATRAZ,' NOEM WARNS MIGRANTS DURING TRUMP VISIT

Workers instal a imperishable Alligator Alcatraz sign. The installation is wrong nan Florida Everglades, 36 miles westbound of nan cardinal business territory of Miami, successful Collier County, Florida, connected Thursday, July 3, 2025. (Getty Images)

Homan said lawmakers who grounded to push for stronger border security remained "silent because they’re complicit" successful nan crises that unfolded nether nan Biden administration.

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"You can't person beardown nationalist information successful this state if we don't person separator security," Homan said. "We sewage to cognize who's coming in, what's coming, wherever it's coming from. But, instead, they kept silent and they kept feeding nan American people."

Fox News' Emma Colton contributed to this report.