Crowd Cheers as Bill Maher Confronts Trump Border Czar Face-to-Face on Raids

Comedian and pundit Bill Maher drew huge applause when he confronted Tom Homan, President Donald Trump’s border czar, over deportation raids that have swept up “regular” workers.

On Friday night’s edition of HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher, the interview guest was Tom Homan, Trump’s border czar.

The panel guests were former Senator Joe Manchin, Democrat from West Virginia; and Alex Wagner, MSNBC senior political analyst.

Maher ‘s interview with Homan was mostly friendly, but the host challenged Homan on the raids and got a big response for it:

TOM HOMAN: What I’m saying is, that’s why you have to show there’s consequences. Because if you send a message there’s no consequences, and you want to reward illegal behavior, that’s not going to stop.

BILL MAHER: And I get all that, and for all that I thank you for your service, truly. But what we also see is people being just taken away who are just regular-day workers. The waitress who worked for 14 years at some coffee shop. And everybody’s like, oh, you know what? We voted to get rid of the bad people, you know, the people you were just talking about, but not Carol. [Crowd applauds]. What’s going on there? Don’t you think it’s been a little heavy-handed? Don’t you think you’ve picked up a bunch of people who shouldn’t be picked up at all? It doesn’t seem like it was done with a scalpel.

HOMAN: What I think about every day is, again, we prioritize the worst first, and in the numbers show we do it. What I’ve said from day one, if you’re in the country illegally, you’re not off the table. You know why? Because there are millions of people standing in line, taking their tests, doing the background investigations, paying their fees to be part of the greatest nation on earth. If you want to be a part of greatest nation, there’s a right way and wrong way to do it. If like it or not, the ones who are here illegally cheated the system.

Watch above via HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher.