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Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt and Tom Homan Brief Members of the Media, Apr. 28, 2025

April 28, 2025 · The White House · 0:46:30

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What happened

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt briefed members of the media on Apr. 28, 2025, carried on the White House channel, joined by Border Czar Tom Homan to open the administration’s 100-day week with a focus on the border. Leavitt announced that the President would sign two executive orders that afternoon - one to strengthen and unleash law enforcement, and one on sanctuary cities directing the Attorney General and the Secretary of Homeland Security to publish a list of state and local jurisdictions that obstruct enforcement of federal immigration laws, as she described them - bringing the President past 140 executive orders, as she stated the count.

Homan spoke from his own tenure: “I started in the border patrol in 1984. I’ve been at this for over 40 years. I worked for six presidents, starting with Ronald Reagan,” he said, arguing border security is the precondition of national security. Leavitt cited Operation Tidal Wave, a joint ICE Miami and Florida law-enforcement effort through which, she said, nearly 800 illegal aliens were arrested in its first four days.

Why it matters

The briefing pairs the 100-day border claim with the day’s concrete actions - the two executive orders announced hours before signing, including the sanctuary-jurisdictions list - and puts Homan’s four-decade enforcement record on the podium as the policy’s credential.

Scoreboard watch

Scoreboard watch: the two executive orders announced at this Apr. 28, 2025 briefing for signing that afternoon (law enforcement; sanctuary-city jurisdictions list), the 140-plus executive-order count as stated, and the Operation Tidal Wave arrest figure of nearly 800 in four days as stated - flagged for the scoreboard editors; the entry itself remains review-gated.

Sources: The White House, “Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt and Tom Homan Brief Members of the Media, Apr. 28, 2025” (YouTube, Apr. 28, 2025) - official description and broadcast transcript as aired.