President-elect Donald Trump’s border czar Tom Homan vows to instill harsh penalties on sanctuary metropolis leaders who’re threatening to dam immigration authorities from finishing up their deliberate mass deportation — telling them plain and easy: “Don’t test us.”
“Let me be clear, there is going to be a mass deportation because we just finished a mass illegal immigration crisis on the border,” Homan mentioned throughout a go to to the border Tuesday in Eagle Move, Texas, alongside Gov. Greg Abbott.
“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,” he added.
To leaders threatening to get in the best way of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Homan warned, “Don’t cross that line.”
“It is a felony to knowingly harbor or conceal an illegal immigrant from immigration authorities. Don’t test us.”
A type of leaders is Denver Mayor Mike Johnston, who lately pledged to protect migrants in his sanctuary metropolis from Trump’s mass deportation by utilizing native cops and 50,000 residents “stationed at the county line” — calling it a “Tiananmen Square moment.”
“More than us having [federal agents] stationed at the county line to keep them out, you would have 50,000 Denverites there,” Johnston lately advised the outlet Denverite.
“It’s like the Tiananmen Square moment … right?” he mentioned, referring to the well-known caught-on-video showdown between a Chinese language scholar and authorities tank in Tiananmen Sq. in China throughout the 1989 rebel.
“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 mentioned of Denver residents ready to go to the mat towards the federal authorities.
Homan lately advised The Put up that he hopes the incoming Trump admin will file lawsuits and withhold federal funding to sanctuary cities.
If that doesn’t work, he mentioned, the White Home will “flood” ICE officers to these areas, the place they are going to be ready outdoors native jails for unlawful migrants to be launched.
Homan mentioned the admin will prioritize unlawful migrant criminals first for deportation.
Of the practically 7.8 million unlawful immigrants who’re in the USA and on the radar of federal immigration officers, 662,586 are convicted felons or have prison fees pending.
In New York Metropolis alone, “it would take a lifetime” to deport town’s migrant criminals, the head of ICE’s area workplace within the Massive Apple lately advised The Put up.
