Incoming border czar Tom Homan met with New York Metropolis Mayor Eric Adams on Thursday to debate town’s ongoing migrant disaster and methods for deporting unlawful migrants with the assistance of the New York Police Division.
Homan, who served as performing director of ICE throughout President Donald Trump’s first time period, has been appointed by the newly-minted president-elect to function the border czar within the incoming administration.
“It went great,” Homan informed Sean Hannity on Thursday evening. “Look, I sat down with the mayor for well over an hour. He gets it. And today he proved that as the mayor in New York City, he’s more concerned with public safety than politics. I wish the mayor of Chicago and the San Diego City council mayor and Governor Pritzker, I wish they’d all take a page out of Mayor Eric Adams’ playbook.”
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Homan recalled how the “ex-cop” got here out of Adams throughout their closed-door assembly Thursday in New York.
“He really cares about public safety, and he’s putting politics aside. He wants to help ICE take criminal threats off the street. He wants to help ICE look for national security threats. He wants to help ICE find over 340,000 missing children, which many are going to be in the city. So a great meeting.”
“Hats off to the mayor for coming to the table and working with us,” credited Homan.
Incoming border czar Tom Homan sits down with NYC Mayor Eric Adams. (Courtesy: NY Mayor’s Workplace)
Homan disclosed that since his assembly with the New York mayor, different leaders from throughout the aisle have reached out to him.
“I’ve been contacted by a couple of other mayors, even Governor Pritzker… he’s willing to sit down. So I think what Mayor Adams did today is not only good for New York City, I think it’s going to be a domino effect. I’m hoping that some of the mayors come forward after seeing the success we had today,” mentioned Homan.
Homan additional praised Adams for his want to “understand” how ICE does its job and his willingness to make use of govt orders to deal with a number of the “roadblocks” New York Metropolis faces.
Law enforcement officials take safety measures as migrants line up exterior the Roosevelt Lodge whereas ready for placement inside a shelter as asylum seekers camp exterior the resort after the Manhattan reduction heart is at full capability in New York Metropolis on Aug. 2, 2023. (Picture by Fatih Aktas/Anadolu Company by way of Getty Photos)
“He [Adams] has told me that he’s going to look at executive orders to undo some of the damage done by de Blasio,” Homan remarked. “He would like to see us back in Rikers Island to arrest the bad guy in the safety and security of the jail, rather than release them into the community and put the community at risk and my officers at risk – the risk of somebody in the community rather than in a jail. He wants his law enforcement officers in the precincts to release criminal aliens to us and not on the street.”
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Homan addressed talking with Adams in regards to the NYPD aiding with finding and apprehending unlawful immigrants all through town.
Adams “has a lot of uniforms in this city that know what’s going on in their neighborhoods,” mentioned Homan. “The NYPD has one of the best intelligence apparatuses in the entire world, that he’s going to help us with. So we’re going to count on every uniform in this city to give us information on where the criminals are at.”
Latest stories point out that New York Metropolis is at present residence to tons of of hundreds of unlawful immigrants with practically 60,000 “criminal” migrants amid growing issues about security and sources.
Migrants who arrived from Eagle Cross, Texas, stroll to the shelters at Floyd Bennett Area within the Brooklyn borough of New York on Feb. 3, 2024. A migrant camp has been arrange at Floyd Bennett Area, a former navy airport. ( Charly TRIBALLEAU / AFP)
Laken Riley’s title additionally got here up throughout the assembly, based on Homan, whereas discussing unlawful migrants roaming the streets of New York.
“Laken Riley’s killer was arrested here in New York City for endangering a child. If things were different, ICE could have took custody of him rather than releasing him and him going to Georgia to commit that horrendous murder,” Homan acknowledged. “So he [Adams] asked a lot of great questions and I left that meeting feeling really good, and we’re going to continue our conversations.”
After the assembly with Adams, the incoming border czar expressed confidence, saying that New York Metropolis is “about to get a lot safer.”
“I think New York City is about to send a strong message to the rest of the world that we’re taking the right steps to take public safety threats, especially those who are not supposed to be in this country to begin with… We’re going to make New York safer,” pledged Homan.
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