President Donald Trump’s border czar Tom Homan laments that in his efforts to deport violent criminals, he’s fighting an uphill battle against Democratic jurisdictions who are committed to shielding the illegal immigrants from arrest and deportation.
The Democratic jurisdictions, also known as ‘sanctuary cities’ are thwarting his continued success, leading Homan to try to double the presence of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). “Sanctuary cities won’t give us access to jails anymore” said Homan, who explained that when an illegal immigrant is arrested, they typically get their fingerprints run through the National Crime Information Center (NCIC), which runs those prints against Department of Homeland Security databases so that law enforcement can confirm that an illegal alien was just arrested and booked in a jail.
“That upsets me, but we’re not giving up,” Homan tells National Review. Homan pledged to “double” the manpower in sanctuary cities as he confidently has the backing of Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) as allies. Doubling presence will “make sure we’re doing everything we can to protect public safety,” even if that “results in collateral arrests of illegal immigrants without a criminal record as the ICE officers successfully locate their intended target.”
“I talked to Elon Musk yesterday, he’s trying to help us hire more agents,” Homan told National Review over the weekend at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Oxon Hill, Md. “I’ve actually talked to him about how to create efficiencies in the recruiting process and the onboarding process,” he said, adding that sometimes it takes months to onboard ICE officers once they are hired.
On the issue of drug cartel crackdown, Homan says the president should do whatever he can “to wipe them off the face of the earth” — including using military force.
National Review notes that Homan has served as an immigration law enforcement official under six U.S. presidents, starting with Ronald Reagan.
“Every president I’ve worked for — even Clinton, Obama — took steps to secure the border because they understood you can’t have strong national security without border security,” Homan tells NR. “Joe Biden is the first president history station came in office and unsecure the border on purpose. It wasn’t mismanagement. It wasn’t incompetence. He caused this to happen.”
Take all of the IRS law enforcement officers and make them ICE officers. Take all extra FBI agents and make them ICE too. Take all extra Fed officers and have them do ICE work. This is a war and we need to act like it is what it is.
Be rid of IRS bean-counters, and use the resource $$$ to hire ex-military/LEO candidates for ICE/Border Patrol, making sure that anti-American leftists are filtered out.
I remember Federal agents setting up roadblocks on HWY 101 in southern CA in the late 50’s/60’s, and filling huge buses (dozens) with illegal aliens, and shipping them back to Mexico on a daily basis. This was still allowing “legal” farm workers through, but not the ‘wet-backs’. These policies were the exact opposite of today’s democrat party, who are using them for votes to undermine our Constitutional Republic’s sovereignty.