President-elect Donald Trump’s incoming border czar, career immigration enforcer Tom Homan, has made a bombshell promise in a massive blue city.
Earlier this month, Homan was on hand in Chicago, a city whose mayor has vowed to fight the Trump administration on its immigration plans, where he said deportation operations would begin on “day one.”
“All that starts January 21st, and we’re going to start right here in Chicago, Illinois. If your Chicago mayor doesn’t want to help, he can step aside. But if he impedes us — if he knowingly harbors or conceals an illegal alien — I will prosecute him,” Homan declared while sending a stern warning to Democrat Mayor Brandon Johnson.
He also took a swipe at the state’s Democrat Gov. JB Pritzker in his speech.
“Chicago is in trouble because your mayor sucks and your governor sucks. January 21st, you’re going to look for a lot of ICE agents in your city, looking for criminals and gang members,” Homan said, indicating that the deportations would start the day after the inauguration of the president-elect.
“Well, we’re telling ICE you’re going to enforce immigration law without apology. You’re going to concentrate the worst for public safety threats first, but no one’s off the table. If they’re in the country illegally, they’ve got a problem,” he added.
During a previous phone interview with the washington examiner, Homan provided more insight into how the Trump administration will arrest, detain, and deport hundreds of thousands or even millions of illegal immigrants.
Homan said that immigrants whose only crime was coming into the country illegally should be sent back to their home country, even if they are just living with or related to someone who has an arrest warrant out for them.
“In sanctuary cities, expect a lot of collateral arrests. I mean, not priority criminal arrests. We can’t get the bad guy in jail. That means we have to go into the communities and find them, and there may be others. We expect a lot of collateral arrests,” Homan said.