Incoming border czar Tom Homan has a three-word message for those officials in sanctuary cities uncomfortable with Donald Trump’s mass deportation plan: ‘Don’t test us.’
Speaking to Texas National Guard and Texas Department of Public Safety agents in Eagle Pass, Texas, on Tuesday Homan ensured them that Trump’s plan will be moving forward.
‘Let me be clear, there is going to be a mass deportation because we just finished a mass illegal immigration crisis on the border.’
‘It’s a felony to knowingly harbor concealed illegal anti-immigration authorities. The nation wants a safe country,’ Homan added.
His warning comes as Denver Mayor Mike Johnston and others have said they will push back against federal deportation efforts. Johnston has said he is ‘not afraid of’ going to jail for doing so.
Appearing on Hannity Monday, Homan made a direct threat to Johnston if he refuses to comply.
‘Me and the Denver mayor, we agree on one thing; he’s willing to go to jail. I’m willing to put him in jail.’
Johnston told CNN Tuesday night he expects citizens will engage in acts of civil disobedience to prevent what he describes as ’10-year-old kids being taken out of class in handcuffs.’
Incoming border czar Tom Homan has a three-word message for those officials in sanctuary cities uncomfortable with Donald Trump ‘s mass deportation plan: ‘Don’t test us’
A group of migrants staying at an encampment in Denver, where Mike Johnston is the mayor. Johnston has said he is ‘not afraid of’ going to jail for not complying with Homan’s plan
Meanwhile, in Eagle Pass earlier Tuesday, Homan praised state police for leading the way on the migrant crisis.
‘What you’ve done is not only protect the state of Texas and the citizens of Texas, you are protecting this nation,’ Homan told the troopers.
‘It’s a shame we have other governors and other mayors who right on the gate said they are going to push back on President Trump.’
Homan explained that if the migrants are not removed then immigration courts and border patrol efforts are pointless.
‘We have to remove them because if we don’t shut down immigration court, those orders don’t mean anything anymore,’ he told the crowd.
‘You can’t demand due process and write the claim asylum and not obey the court order. That is why there needs to be a mass deportation.’
Homan warned states thinking of not cooperating with the federal-led deportations, urging them to not ‘cross that line.’ He noted how harboring illegal immigrants is a felony.
‘If we don’t do it, what is the option? Let them stay? Cause if you let them stay, you’ll never fix the border. You’re gonna send a message to the rest of the world: enter the country illegally, which is a crime, ignore a court order … we’re telling the whole world it’s OK to enter this country illegally, you’ve never got to go home,’ Homan added.
His warning comes as Denver Mayor Mike Johnston and others have said they will push back against federal deportation efforts
Appearing on Hannity Monday, Homan made a direct threat to Johnston if he refuses to comply. ‘Me and the Denver mayor, we agree on one thing; he’s willing to go to jail. I’m willing to put him in jail’
Homan said this weekend that it’s guaranteed that the future president will pull federal funds from states that don’t comply with his mass deportation plans.
The new border czar, who served in the highest echelons of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) under Presidents Barack Obama and Trump, was recently tapped by the president-elect to serve a role tailor-made to carry out Trump’s deportation mandate.
The president-elect repeatedly claimed while campaigning that on day one he would pull off the ‘largest deportation program in American history.’
Homan will be tasked with helping Trump make good on that promise.
Speaking on Fox News with host Mark Levin on Saturday, the host suggested that the border czar has an important tool at his disposal to force states to comply with the mass deportations.
‘Much like the Confederacy, they want to go on their own,’ Levin said of states not wanting to enforce deportations. ‘They want to do their own thing. To me, you got a powerful weapon among others, okay, no federal funds – boom – last thoughts?’
Homan didn’t waste a beat, confirming immediately that states and municipalities that don’t ‘cooperate’ with federal immigration agents will have their federal funds restricted.
‘That is going to happen,’ Homan stated. ‘I guarantee President Trump will do that.’
The president-elect repeatedly claimed while campaigning that on day one he would pull off the ‘largest deportation program in American history’
The new border czar, who served in the highest echelons of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) under Presidents Barack Obama and Trump, was recently tapped by the president-elect to serve a role tailor-made to carry out Trump’s deportation mandate
Restricting the federal funds that typically flow to the states could have devastating impacts on every member of the union.
States routinely take in billions of dollars in revenue in the form of federal grants.
In FY 2021 California received a whopping $163 billion dollars from the feds while New York took in $110 billion and Texas $106 billion, according to federal data.
Though those numbers are inflated due to the expensive federal response to COVID-19 at the time, which infused states with extra cash, the trend remains, and states still routinely receive tens of billions annually.
Federal grants were the second-largest revenue source for states in FY 2022, according to a Pew analysis.
There have been nearly 11 million migrant encounters since the start of FY 2021, federal data shows.
By comparison, during Trump’s first administration between fiscal years 2017 – 2020, there were just 3.1 million encounters.
The record levels of illegal immigration have irked Americans across the country, as evidenced by poll after poll showing that migration and border security ranked among the top issues for voters in this year’s election.
Democrats, meanwhile, have bristled at the thought that migrants who illegally entered the U.S. may face deportation.
Denver Mayor Johnston has signaled he will defy any immigration order, putting them directly at odds with the incoming administration.
He even said that he would work to keep federal immigration officials out of his town should they work to deport migrants there.
He said that the effort could turn into a dangerous stand-off akin to the infamous 1989 Tiananmen Square protest in China.
‘It’s like the Tiananmen Square moment with the rose and the gun, right? You’d have every one of those Highland moms who came out for the migrants. And you do not want to mess with them,’ Johnston said.
Homan took Johnston’s comments head on, telling Levin that mayors and governors who try to work against Trump and his team’s deportation plans are complicit in gruesome migrant-related crimes, such as the notorious murder of Georgia college student Laken Riley, who was slain by a Venezuelan migrant that entered the U.S. illegally.
