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Incoming Trump Border Czar Meets With Blue City Mayor: ‘Went Very Well’
Former Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Director Tom Homan — who will be overseeing President-elect Trump’s mass deportation and border security operations under the title of Border Czar — told Fox News that his recent meeting with New York City Mayor Eric Adams was very productive.
“I’ve been calling him out for two years. I’ve been saying he forgot what it’s like being a cop and became a politician. But when I sat down at that table, John, the cop came out of him. He understood,” Homan said of the Democrat mayor, who was a New York City Police captain before entering politics. “I’m not asking him to be immigration officers. I’m asking him for his law enforcement officers, who work with my law enforcement officers, to remove public safety threats from his community. He gets it.”
The incoming border czar compared Adams favorably to the majority of his Democratic Party colleagues, many of whom have vowed to openly defy federal immigration law by resisting the administration’s deportation plans. “I mean, we’ve been clear, President Trump and I have said out of the gate, public safety threats are our priority. Help us get this job done. Everybody should be, this shouldn’t be a partisan issue, everybody should be on the same page of this. We’re talking about criminals, public safety threats,” Homan said.
He added that the two discussed serious crimes committed by illegal aliens, including the murder of University of Georgia student Laken Riley, who was killed by a Venezuelan national. “If we had a better relationship with NYPD back then, when that guy was first arrested in New York for injuring a child, he would have never made it to Georgia and she’d be alive today. So I’m hoping that this conversation, which went very well, hope the actions follow it up,” Homan told Fox News.
New York City alone has accommodated more than 220,000 illegal aliens and asylum seekers since 2022, Adams confirmed earlier this month. This accounts for about half the population of the state capital of Albany.
A report from the New York Post found that city taxpayers are paying roughly $352 per night to house the migrants, about half of which is going towards housing. Additional funds went towards food, cleaning and social services. The Post further reported that there are roughly 210 city-run shelter sites scattered across the city’s five boroughs, while experts have pegged the total cost of the crisis at $12 billion for the state.
As of this report, there are roughly 58,000 illegal aliens and asylum seekers residing in taxpayer-funded New York City shelters.
During a recent press conference of his own, Mayor Adams pledged to work with Homan on deportation plans, particularly in cases involving known criminals and violent illegal aliens.
“Those who are here committing crimes, robberies, shooting at police officers, raping innocent people, have been a harm to our country, I want to sit down and hear the plan on how we’re going to address them. Those are the people I am talking about,” Adams told reporters earlier this month.
A reporter then asked Adams to clarify whether he is open to collaborating with a Trump-led Immigration and Customs (ICE) on deportations.
“You know what’s interesting and I was talking to the team the other day, I want you to all go back and Google Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. Google what they said about those who commit crimes in our city and what they said in our country,” the mayor responded. “They said those who commit crimes need to get out right away. That was their position. So this is not a new position.”
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