Now that President Trump has federalized the District of Columbia and taken over the police department with at least 800 National Guardsmen, border czar Tom Homan has announced that while the takeover is in effect — scheduled for at least a month — the city’s “sanctuary city” status will not be enforced.
Interviewed on Wednesday on Fox News Channel’s “The Story,” Homan said:
D.C. under federal control is not going to be a sanctuary city. We’re working with the police hand in hand, and when we encounter a criminal, illegal alien, they will be turned over to ICE, and that’s the way it should be. I mean, I’m not saying every illegal alien in D.C. is a criminal, but many are. So these are people we are going to focus on. The illegal alien criminal threat in D.C. is not going to be protected. There’s no sanctuary for these people in the city of D.C.
Washington, DC, has a higher violent crime, murder, and robbery rate than all 50 states, with a homicide rate in 2024 of 27.54 per 100,000 residents. That is a higher rate than many third-world capitals, including Bogota, Colombia (15.1) and Mexico City (10.8).
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