Former ICE Director Tom Homan, recently appointed as President-elect Donald Trump’s border czar, appeared on FNC’s Fox & Friends on Monday to discuss his plans to secure the border and address the migrant influx that has burdened the country in recent years. Homan shared strong words about his upcoming role after Trump is sworn in early next year, as he sent a warning of sorts to blue state governors like California’s Gavin Newsom and New York’s Kathy Hochul after they threatened to block the incoming administration’s immigration enforcement efforts.
“[I]f you’re not going to help us, get the hell out of the way,” he said. “If we can’t get assistance from New York City, and I may have, we may have to double the number of agents we send in New York City, because we’re going to do the job, we’re going to do the job without you or with you. But it’s much easier to arrest a bad guy, like I just said — we’re concentrating on public safety threat to human and national security threat, it’s much easier to arrest a bad guy in the jail.”
“Give us access to Rikers Jail that we’ve been kicked out of,” Homan added. “Let us get the bad guy in jail. It’s safer for the alien. It’s safer for the officer. It’s safer for the community. If you release these bad guys out into the community, then we have to go find them, which puts the officer at risk. It puts the community at risk.”
Earlier, he spoke of being honored after Trump asked him to come out of retirement to lead the administration’s immigration enforcement and border security initiatives. “I’ve been on this network for years complaining about what [the Biden-Harris] administration did to this border,” Homan told “Fox & Friends” on Monday. “I’ve been yelling and screaming about it and what they need to do to fix it.
“So when the president asked me, ‘Would you come back and fix it?’ Of course. I’d be a hypocrite if I didn’t. I’m honored the president asked me to come back and help solve this national security crisis, so I’m looking forward to it,” he added. “I know exactly what I’m doing, and this is the second time I’ve come out of retirement for this president because it matters,” Homan continued. “I was a Border Patrol agent, I wore that uniform, and I’m proud that I wore that uniform. I was an ICE agent. I was the first ICE director that came up through the ranks, so the 20,000 men and women that worked for me, I didn’t ask them to do anything I wouldn’t do myself, because I was one of them.”
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