MUST-WATCH: Tom Homan Makes Mika Brzezinski Melt Down In Fiery ‘Morning Joe’ Back-And-Forth

A fiery Tom Homan took to MSNBC on Tuesday to push back against assertions by Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey that immigration officers are targeting houses of worship and other sensitive locales in her state.

Battling an incredulous Mika Brzezinski, Homan rattled off the names of dangerous individuals picked up as part of “Patriot 2.0,” an operation conducted by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to apprehend individuals released by local authorities who refused to honor detainer requests. Healey, a Democrat, appeared on the program earlier in the morning to claim that ICE officers waited outside a church to arrest an illegal immigrant with no criminal history.

“To say that, and to push that out there, creates fear in the immigrant community,” Homan alleged, drawing a rebuke from the “Morning Joe” host.

But rather than debate Brzezinski on the merits of parking on a public road, Homan named several of the dangerous individuals picked up over the past several days in and around Boston. Among them: Victor Gomez, a 33-year-old criminal alien from Guatemala with charges of aggravated rape, assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, and indecent assault and battery on a victim 14 years of age or younger, he stated.

Another individual arrested in Massachusetts this week was a 33-year-old Colombian national with charges of aggravated assault on a pregnant victim, and a 23-year-old from the Dominican Republic was wanted for trafficking heroin, morphine, and opium.

Boston’s “Mayor Wu, and Governor Healey, they ought to be calling ICE and thanking them for making their streets safer,” exclaimed Homan.

“They’ve turned a blind eye to this. Sanctuary cities and sanctuary states and sanctuaries for criminals. Give ICE access to a jail to arrest a bad guy in a jail rather than having to go into a community to find them.”

But Homan’s claims did little to assuage Brzezinski, who reverted to calling an ICE van a “frightening sight” outside a Spanish-speaking church.

“We’d appreciate all of the data,” she continued, suggesting Homan was not giving her the full picture of ICE activities in Massachusetts.

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The ICE operation comes on the heels of a suit by the U.S. Justice Department against the City of Boston over a 2014 law that prohibits local authorities from working with federal immigration officers. U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi has argued Boston’s sanctuary city policies are among the “worst of the worst” for protecting criminals who benefit from courts willing to release them despite federal immigration detainers.

State courts also operate under a 2017 precedent preventing a civil immigration detainer from justifying the holding of a suspected illegal immigrant. On Monday, House Speaker Ron Mariano stated that the Democratic supermajority legislature has no plans to address immigration reform during this year’s session.