In an interview with LifeZette News, border czar Tom Homan today outlined his agency’s ongoing enforcement actions, focusing on sanctuary city policies and recent operations in major cities.
Homan said federal officers are carrying out existing law and removing dangerous offenders and that sanctuary city mayors typically do not “understand we’re enforcing the law.” He added that cooperation would benefit local residents.
Homan said Operation Charlotte’s Web was continuing in Charlotte and commented on operations in other locations, such as Houston.
You know what happened in Houston? Was a fantastic operation. I actually went out there and kicked that operation off. And I mean, the first day, I can’t tell you how many child rapists. I mean, the worst of the worst, to me is a child rapist. How many of them we arrested the first day? I think we nine were arrested the first day.
Homan said sanctuary city policies continue to create problems with enforcement.
Sanctuary cities were flooding the zone because we know they’re releasing public safety threats in the communities every day. That’s where the biggest problem is, and that’s where we’re sending the majority of the agents.
Homan also said he was staying out of San Francisco for the moment, after having talked with that city’s mayor, who promised action on crime directly from local law enforcement. “Even though they’re sanctuary city, they’re taking some actions against the worst of the worst. We’ll see it. Will monitor it,” he said.
He said operations are planned for New York City.
We’re going to be coming to New York City. We’re already there now. I mean, teams are there now, but we will increase the enforcement present New York City again, because they’re a sanctuary city, and we know we have an issue. There are public safety threats sitting in the street every day.
Homan summed up his attitude toward dealing with sanctuary cities:
We much rather work with these sanctuary cities than keep, you know, putting our agents at extreme risk going out in the community and wrestling public safety trip, they could have rested them in the safety and security of a jail. But if they don’t want assist, they want to keep pushing back and impeding our efforts, then we’re going to just send more teams there. We’re going to flood the zone.
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