Tom Homan, President Trump’s border czar, declared sanctuary cities a priority, especially after a recent shooting of a CBP agent in New York City. He criticized the city's sanctuary laws and announced plans to deploy more ICE agents to arrest undocumented individuals in the community. Homan expressed frustration with the City Council's interference with ICE operations at Riker's Island, warning that new policies may lead to arrests of non-criminal individuals. Homan emphasized that ICE will respond to sanctuary city policies with increased enforcement efforts in urban areas.
Sanctuary cities are now our priority. We're going to flood the zone. You don't want to let us into jail to arrest a bad guy in the safety and security of a jail. You want to release him into the street. So, what we're going to do, we'll have more agents in New York City to look for that bad guy.
Sanctuary cities get exactly what they don't want -- more agents in the community and more agents in the worksite. If we can't arrest that bad guy in the safety and security of county jail, we'll arrest him in the community, and when we arrest him in the community, if he's with others that are in the country illegally, they're coming, too.
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