President-elect Donald Trump’s incoming border czar, Tom Homan, has issued a stark warning to sanctuary cities: adjust to federal immigration legal guidelines or face extreme penalties.
In an unique interview with Just the News, Homan acknowledged that officers who refuse to cooperate with federal authorities within the detention of unlawful immigrants might face severe authorized repercussions, together with prices of obstruction and harboring.
Homan, the previous appearing Director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), made it clear that the Trump administration is not going to tolerate any makes an attempt by native governments to defend unlawful aliens from federal legislation enforcement.
“They want to concentrate on a pair issues. No. 1, impeding a federal legislation enforcement officer is a criminal offense. No. 2, for those who knowingly harbor or conceal an unlawful alien from ICE, that’s a criminal offense,” Homan warned. “So don’t cross that line!”
Homan and Trump are making ready to implement a sturdy plan of mass deportations beginning January 20. The preliminary focus can be on these unlawful immigrants with felony information.
Some blue states and cities, nonetheless, are already digging of their heels. California’s Los Angeles lately reaffirmed its standing as a sanctuary metropolis.
Homan has pledged to deploy “twice as many” Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) brokers to Los Angeles to hold out mass deportations.
“Federal legislation trumps state and native legislation each time, so for those who’re not gonna assist, get the hell out of the best way,” Homan mentioned in keeping with Newsweek.
“We’re coming, we’re doing it, and so they’re not going to cease us…. When you knowingly harbor and conceal an unlawful alien, that’s a felony…. Why would you push again on this?”
“If I’ve acquired to ship twice as many officers to L.A. as a result of we’re not getting any help, then that’s what we’re going to do. We’ve acquired a mandate, President Trump’s severe about this, I’m severe about this. That is going to occur with or with out you,” he added.
Throughout an interview with Sean Hannity, Homan issued a warning to the Democratic mayor of Denver after he expressed his willingness to go to jail to guard unlawful immigrants.
“Me and the Denver mayor agree on one factor. He’s keen to go to jail. I’m keen to place him in jail.”
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Tom Homan on Denver Mayor Johnston: “Me and the Denver mayor agree on one factor.”
“He’s keen to go to jail. I’m keen to place him in jail.” pic.twitter.com/HExzkeHP3I
— Gunther Eagleman™ (@GuntherEagleman) November 26, 2024
Boston Mayor Michelle Wu additionally brazenly declared her metropolis would resist the federal authorities’s deportation plans.
“Elections have penalties, and the federal authorities is chargeable for a sure set of actions, and cities, no particular person metropolis, can reverse or override some components of that,” Wu mentioned in an interview with WCVB.
“However what we will do is guarantee that we’re doing our half to guard our residents in each attainable approach, that we’re not cooperating with these efforts that really threaten the protection of everybody by inflicting widespread concern and and having giant scale financial affect.”
“After which we’re offering the areas to succeed in out on to our residents, as a result of the very last thing we wish is for people who find themselves a part of our financial system, a part of our college system, a part of our neighborhood and the material of our metropolis, to really feel that hastily they need to retreat into the shadows with due to concern that reaching out to metropolis providers, whether or not it’s calling 911, while you want it, or taking your baby to high school, these are all metropolis providers that don’t have anything to do with immigration enforcement, and we’ll proceed to guard our residents inside these areas,” she added.
In a blunt interview with Greg Kelly, Homan dismantled Wu’s rationale and warned of the potential authorized penalties for her administration.
“Effectively, she’s not very sensible, I’ll give her that as a result of I simply mentioned… President Trump’s going to prioritize public security threats,” Homan mentioned.
“What mayor or governor doesn’t need public security threats out of their communities? That’s our primary duty; to guard their communities and that’s precisely what we’re going to do.”
“So she helps us, [or] she will get the hell out of the best way as a result of we’re going to do it. Look, there’s a transparent line right here. They’ll’t cross a transparent line. I might recommend she learn Title 8, United States Code 1324 III that claims you’ll be able to’t harbor conceal an unlawful alien.”
“So I hope she don’t cross that line. They cannot cooperate, however there are particular legal guidelines in place that they’ll’t cross and I hope she doesn’t cross it.”
Below Homan’s management, the Trump administration will discover all authorized avenues, together with prosecuting native officers who defy federal immigration legal guidelines. Homan confirmed he would search an opinion from Trump’s lawyer basic nominee, Pam Bondi, on whether or not metropolis or county jails refusing to cooperate with ICE constitutes a federal crime.
The technique additionally consists of slicing federal funding to jurisdictions that harbor unlawful immigrants.
“I’ll depart it as much as the lawyer basic, however I feel it must be absolutely reviewed. And I hope they agree with me,” he mentioned.
“We’ve acquired to drag federal funding. We acquired to take the cash away,” he mentioned. “And look, I’m hoping to return to the sport prepared as a result of President Trump and myself, we’ve been clear that public security threats and nationwide safety threats could be the priorities proper out of the gate. Public security threats, nationwide safety threats, we acquired lots within the combat. So you already know, what mayor or governor doesn’t need public security threats out of their communities.”
