Tom Homan, President-elect Donald Trump’s new “border czar,” has warned states that refuse to “cooperate” with mass deportation plans may face having their federal funding slashed.
Homan, who served as the acting director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement during Trump’s first administration, appeared on the Fox News show “Life, Liberty & Levin” Sunday to discuss the strategy with host Mark Levin.
“If you have a governor who says, ‘I’m not going to cooperate, I’m going to block you.’ Well then, federal funds should be slashed to that state, and I mean hugely so, so that the people of that state understand that the governor is the responsible party, that the mayor is the responsible party,” Levin said.
“They can beat their chest to be sanctuary cities all they want,” he continued. “They’re part of the United States whether they like it or not. This is a federal issue.”
Homan replied, “And that’s going to happen. Guarantee you, President Trump will do that.”
Homan went on to claim he had “got death threats” after he was picked for “border czar” and suggested this showed “the guys who want to enforce the law are the bad guys, the guys who break the law are the victims.”
Then, later on in the interview, he directed remarks at state and city leaders, saying, “What governor or mayor doesn’t want public safety threats and national security threats out of their neighborhoods, out of their communities? That’s their number one responsibility.”
Homan served as head of ICE’s deportation branch under former President Barack Obama, helping that administration eject a record number of immigrants from the United States.
As acting head of ICE during Trump’s first term in the White House, Homan oversaw the separation of migrant children from their families — one of that administration’s most notorious policies.
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The massdeportation of millions of undocumented immigrants and securing the U.S.-Mexico border was at the heart of Trump’s successful presidential bid this year.