Border Czar Tom Homan said he is going to send “more ICE agents than you’ve ever seen in New York City” soon, and he said he was “keeping my promise” to Governor Kathy Hochul after she signed a law that is against ICE.
Homan talked about his plan for immigration in New York on Monday’s show Fox and Friends.
This came after New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani called for ending ICE.
Homan explained that during a meeting with Hochul in March, he warned her not to speed up the city’s push to stop immigration enforcement.
Host Brian Kilmeade asked, “New York is saying abolish ICE and zero cooperation.
The governor and mayor teaming up to make sure that with the progress you were making with Eric Adams is going to just disappear. Are you going to stay away now?”
Homan answered, “No, I’m keeping my promise to Governor Hochul.”
He explained, “I met with Governor Hochul a couple of months ago.
I told her about how we handled things in Minnesota. If we work with the sheriffs and arrest the bad guy safely in the jail, that means fewer teams go into the neighborhoods, which causes a lot of problems. I told her that if you sign the law that I think you are about to sign, I will send more agents to New York because instead of one person arresting one bad guy in a jail, we have to send a whole team into a neighborhood to find someone who doesn’t want to be found because of officer safety. That person has access to weapons. I told her it’s safer for the community, the officers, and the people being arrested to work with the jails.”
She signed the law anyway.
So he made her a promise: “You are going to see more ICE agents than you have ever seen in New York City. And it’s coming. I just reviewed an operational plan. I’m not going to tell you exactly when it’s going to happen, but it’s coming. I’m keeping my promise. We are going to send more ICE agents to New York because you took away the efficiencies of safe arrests in county jails.”
Hochul signed the new law in late March, which prevents ICE agents from wearing masks and stops local law enforcement from letting the federal government do immigration work in state and local facilities.
Some lawmakers were upset with the governor for not including clear rules against law enforcement working with ICE.
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