Border Czar Homan: ‘We’re Gonna Triple The Workforce’ In Sanctuary Cities

Border Czar Tom Homan announced that the Trump administration’s immigration team would triple the workforce in sanctuary cities, vowing, “We’re gonna flood the zone with officers.”

After teenaged illegal immigrants belonging to “Los Diablos de 42,” described as a “farm team” of the Venezuelan Tren de Aragu gang, attacked NYPD officers on Friday in Times Square, New York Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch acknowledged that NYPD is coordinating with federal agencies, but added, “The NYPD does not engage in civil immigration issues—period.”

Homan slammed Tisch, saying to Fox News’ Laura Ingraham, “These people are in the country illegally, and the first thing the police commissioner did up there  — she’s ordered an internal affairs investigation. Did someone call ICE? Because we happened to be at the precinct where some of these people were being processed by happenstance, but now all of a sudden there’s an internal affairs investigation.”

“Who called ICE? We just proved to the city commissioner, we proved to the city council, that wants to lock us out of Rikers Island, that working with Mayor Adams … we indicted 27 members of TdA through a RICO investigation. … These are people who are murder-for-hire, drug traffickings, sex trafficking, gun trafficking. We took 27 TdA off the street. ICE, with the cooperation of the NYPD, we showed what our partnership can do.”

In mid-April, the New York City Council filed a lawsuit asking for a temporary restraining order (TRO) and a preliminary injunction against Mayor Eric Adams’ Executive Order 50 to invite ICE to operate an office in the Rikers Island jail.

“They’re already pulling back now,” Homan continued. “So the commissioner is more concerned with who called ICE rather than working with ICE to get these people not out of the street, (but) out of the country. … This is just another example of sanctuary cities not cooperating with ICE and look what happened: NYPD officers are attacked. If you’re brazen enough to attack an armed law enforcement officer, you’re much more dangerous to an unarmed civilian.”

Asked by Ingraham what his message was for three illegal immigrants “still on the loose,” Homan replied, “We’re comin’ for ‘em.” He continued, “These are the type of people that AOC brags, ‘Why I’m educating people on their constitutional rights.’ We all know what she’s doing. She’s educating criminals now to evade law enforcement.”

“Well, you know, I’m gonna do a little educating myself: You don’t want to open the door; you don’t want to answer a question; you don’t want to help us with the travel documents that get you removed, that’s a violation of Title VIII, United States Code 1253. It’s a crime. And we’re going to start prosecuting those crimes tomorrow.”

“If you got a final order, and you want to hinder your removal, you want to put roadblocks up and not cooperate, you want to hide and not open the door, then the agency is gonna start prosecuting you criminally,” he warned. “Then, after you get out of jail from that prosecution, then we deport you. Game’s over. We’re gonna look for these public safety threats and we’re gonna take ‘em off the streets in New York and every other sanctuary city. As a matter of fact, every sanctuary city, we’re gonna triple the workforce. We’re gonna flood the zone with officers. If we can’t arrest them in the jail, we’re gonna arrest them in the community. If we can’t arrest them in the community, we’ll arrest them at their worksite.”

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