Next border czar Tom Homan Met with New York City Mayor Eric Adams on Thursday to discuss the city's ongoing immigrant crisis and strategies to deport illegal immigrants with the help of the New York Police Department.
Homan, who served as acting director of ICE during President Donald Trump's first term, was appointed by the newly elected president to serve as border czar in the incoming administration.
“It went great,” Homan told Sean Hannity on Thursday evening. “Look, I sat with the mayor for over an hour. He gets it. And today he proved that as the mayor of New York City, he's more concerned with public safety than politics. I hope the mayor of Chicago and San Francisco Mayor Diego City Council and Governor Pritzker, I hope they all take A page from Mayor Eric Adams' playbook.
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Homan recalled how the “former cop” walked out on Adams during their closed-door meeting Thursday in New York.
“He truly cares about public safety, and he puts politics aside. He wants to help ICE take criminal threats off the street. He wants to help ICE look for national security threats. He wants to help ICE find over 340,000 missing children,” That's a lot of them.” “There will be a great meeting in town.”
“Hats off to the mayor for coming to the table and working with us,” Homan said.
Incoming border czar Tom Homan sits down with New York City Mayor Eric Adams. (Courtesy: New York Mayor's Office)
Homan revealed that since his meeting with the New York mayor, other leaders from across the aisle have reached out to him.
“I've had a couple of other mayors call me, even Governor Pritzker… he's willing to sit down. So I think what Mayor Adams did today is not only good for New York City, I think it's going to have a domino effect. I hope he moves forward,” Homan said. Some mayors after seeing the success we achieved today.”
Homan also praised Adams for his desire to “understand” how ICE does its work and his willingness to use executive orders to address some of the “barriers” New York City faces.
Police officers take security measures as migrants line up outside the Roosevelt Hotel while waiting to be placed inside a shelter as asylum seekers camp outside the hotel after the Manhattan Relief Center became at full capacity in New York City on August 2, 2023. (Photo by: Fatih Aktaş/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
“He (Adams) told me he would consider executive orders to undo some of the damage that de Blasio has done,” Homan said. “He would like to see us back at Rikers Island apprehending bad guys in the safety and security of a prison, rather than releasing them into the community and putting the community at risk and my officers at risk — the risk of having someone out in the world.” “Society, not in prison, wants law enforcement officers in the departments to release criminal foreigners to us, not to the street.”
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Homan addressed his conversation with Adams about helping the NYPD locate and arrest illegal immigrants throughout the city.
Adams “has a lot of uniforms in this city who know what's going on in their neighborhoods,” Homan said. “The NYPD has one of the best intelligence services in the entire world, and he's going to help us with it. So, we're going to be relying on every uniform in this city to give us information about where criminals are.”
Recent reports Data indicates that New York City is currently home to hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants with nearly 60,000 “criminal” immigrants amid growing concerns about safety and resources.
Migrants arriving from Eagle Pass, Texas, walk to shelters at Floyd Bennett Field in the Brooklyn borough of New York on February 3, 2024. A migrant camp has been set up at Floyd Bennett Field, a former military airfield. (Charlie Tripalo/AFP)
Lakin Riley's name also came up during the meeting, Homan said, while discussing illegal immigrants wandering the streets of New York.
“Lakin Riley's killer was arrested here in New York City on a child endangerment charge. If things had been different, ICE could have detained him instead of releasing him and going to Georgia to commit this horrific murder,” Homan said. “So he (Adams) asked a lot of great questions and I left that meeting feeling really good, and we will continue our conversations.”
After meeting with Adams, the new border czar expressed confidence, saying New York City is “on the cusp of getting safer.”
“I believe New York City is about to send a strong message to the rest of the world that we are taking the right steps to address public safety threats, especially those who are not supposed to be in this country to begin with… We are going to make New York safer,” Homan pledged. .
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