Exclusive: Trump's border czar says 600k to be deported in 2025

• "If you're in the United States illegally, you're not off the table," Homan told Axios' Brittany Gibson in Washington D.C. "If we find you, we're going to arrest you."

The latest: Homan said 70% of individuals arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) are classified as criminals, while the other 30 to 35% are identified as national security threats without criminal pasts.

• When Gibson flagged those numbers, saying they didn't' match the bi-monthly report ICE shares with Congress, Homan told her, that the data lawmakers receive is "behind" and "it's how you read the raw data."
• Homan added that a significant number of those considered national security threats have final orders of removal and were already given due process, but he didn't confirm how many people fit that designation.
• Since Trump retook office, the number of people in immigration detention centers has risen by more than 50%, an Axios review found.

Context: Homan, who retired less than a year into his first stint as acting Immigration and Customs Enforcement director during Trump's first administration, returned as the White House's border czar to enforce the president's aggressive immigration agenda.

• Homan served in several roles before being named executive associate director of ICE under Obama in 2013.

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Editor's note: This story has been updated with additional comments from Homan.