Tom Homan, President Donald Trump’s point man for mass deportations and border security, defended the administration’s immigration policies after its first 200 days Thursday on Newsmax.

He also skewered first-term Sen. Elissa Slotkin, D-Mich., a former three-term congresswoman who said during a town hall in Benton Harbor, Michigan, on Aug. 4 that Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and Homan, whom she misnamed as Holgren, “have been a disaster” and “un-American.”

“I guess she just proved that she’s not very smart, obviously,” Holman told “Finnerty.” “But bottom line is, what we’re doing is making this country safe again. What we’re doing is correct. And here’s a congressperson, elected official who buried her head in the sand under the Biden administration, [when] we had the highest level of sex trafficking of women and children in the history of this nation.

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