In-town pool note #1: Homan questions at the sticks

Border Czar Tom Homan took questions at the sticks. It was tough to hear with a truck running in the background, but here are some highlights.

"I think we got the support of a majority of the American people" for deportations.

"I have not been satisfied with the numbers" of arrests. "We've increased the teams a lot; we've increased targeting a lot. We expect a fast increase in the number of arrests."

Self deportation numbers around 8500 for CBP Home app

Asked about Nantucket/Martha's Vineyard ICE operations: "We're doing immigration action throughout the country. We're not — we're not saying we're gonna favor one area over another."

"We're going to flood the zone in sanctuary cities; we'll give exactly what they don't want: More agents in the neighborhoods, more worksite enforcement."

"There is no sanctuary for illegal aliens. You can call it a sanctuary jurisdiction all you want. It's a bunch of crap."

On social media scrutiny of immigrant students: "We look at a lot of different ways to find people we need to find."

"Free speech is legal, but there's a limit to that too. ... I can't sit in a movie theater and yell fire and watch people get trampled to death. That's not free speech, that's a crime. There's a limit to free speech, but we're not arresting people based on free speech. It's what they said plus what they did."

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Shira Stein

Washington correspondent

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