President-elect Donald Trump’s border czar has a “clear message” for sanctuary cities bucking up towards the incoming administration’s toughened border stance – get on board or get out of the way in which.
The previous performing Immigration and Customs Enforcement director Tom Homan joined “Sunday Morning Futures” this week, the place he laid out the incoming administration’s potential plan to chop again on unlawful migrant crime and make communities safer throughout the U.S., regardless of blue metropolis pushback.
“You’ve got San Diego writing legislation. You’ve got Colorado and other states and other cities saying they’re going to prevent us doing what I’m doing. I want to send a clear message. If you let us in the jail, we can arrest the bad guy in the jail and in the safety and security of the jail. One officer could do that, but when you release a public safety threat back in the community, you put the community at risk. You put my officers at risk. You put the alien at risk,” he instructed host Maria Bartiromo.
FORMER ICE DIRECTOR TOM HOMAN ‘HONORED’ TO BE APPOINTED TRUMP’S BORDER CZAR: ‘WE HAVE TO FIX IT’
Thomas Homan, then-Senior Official Performing the Duties of the Director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), speaks throughout a Division of Homeland Safety press convention to announce end-of-year numbers relating to immigration enforcement, border safety and nationwide safety, December 5, 2017, in Washington, D.C. (Drew Angerer/Getty Photographs)
“Here’s what’s going to happen – you release that guy in the community, I’m going to send an entire team to go look for the guy in your community. And what’s going to happen? We’ll find that guy. And when we find that guy, there’s probably going to be others that are not a priority. However, if they’re in the country illegally, they’ll be arrested, too, because we’re not going to tell an immigration officer like this [Biden] administration did, that you’re going to turn your back on an illegal immigrant. When you’re an immigration officer, you have an oath to uphold, so you are forcing us into community in large numbers where other non-priority aliens will be arrested.
“That is the precise end result you do not need, so allow us to within the jail. It is safer for everyone.”
Homan, who has been an outspoken critic of the Biden administration’s border policies, has vowed to toughen up security and engage in mass deportation, adhering closely to rhetoric from Trump.
WHAT TO KNOW ABOUT THOMAS HOMAN, TRUMP’S INCOMING ‘BORDER CZAR’
President-elect Donald Trump has consistently taken a tough stance on border security. (Chris Unger/Zuffa LLC)
Blue city officials are less-than-enthusiastic about the mass deportation plan and are fighting back in different ways. Boston’s city council voted unanimously to double down on obstructing Trump’s plans for mass deportations. Denver Mayor Mike Johnston, Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey and Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs, all Democrats, are among a league of others pushing back.
New York City Mayor Eric Adams, on the contrary, has expressed his willingness to sit down with Homan to discuss ways to make the streets of the Big Apple safer for all.
The two are slated to meet on Thursday. Homan said on that note, “I am not stunned that Mayor Adams is coming to the desk, as a result of I feel his No. 1 duty is safety of his communities. I am shocked different mayors and different governors wish to put roadblocks up. I can not imagine any elected official doesn’t wish to take away public security threats from their communities, however we will do it with them or with out them. We will get this accomplished.”
