Meghan Blonder writes for the Washington Free Beacon about the federal border czar’s response to recent comments from New York City’s leading mayoral candidate.
Border czar Tom Homan offered a four-word response to New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani’s vow to undermine ICE’s operations: “Good luck on that.”
“We’re going to be in New York City, and President Trump said it two weeks ago. We’re going to double down, triple down on sanctuary cities. Why? Not because they’re a blue city or a blue state, but because we know that’s where the problem is,” Homan said.
Homan’s comments came in response to a Washington Free Beacon question asking if he had a plan to handle Mamdani, New York City’s Democratic nominee for mayor, and his June 25 promise to use his power to “stop masked ICE agents from deporting our neighbors.”
“Zohran Mamdani, the likely next mayor of New York City, has promised not to cooperate with you or ICE or with deportations of any kind. Do you have a plan to work around that? How are you going to handle that?” the Free Beacon’s Jon Levine asked on Monday.
Homan said ICE would “flood the zone” to counter sanctuary policies.
“We know [New York is] releasing public safety threats and national security threats to the streets every day because they don’t honor our detainers,” Homan said. “We’re going to get the bad guys, so if they don’t want to help, get out the way. We’re coming to do it.”
“Where are we going to send our assets? We’re going to send them where the problem is: sanctuary cities,” Homan added. “We’ll flood the zone of sanctuary cities. If they don’t let us arrest the bad guy in the county jail, they’re going to arrest him in the community.”
When Trump was asked on July 1 about Mamdani’s promise to stop ICE, he said, “We’ll have to arrest him. We don’t need a communist in this country, but if we have one, I’m going to be watching over him very carefully on behalf of the nation.”
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