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Border czar Tom Homan said Tuesday that the mass deportation operation has already begun as the Trump administration seeks to make good on promises to address the border crisis and crack down illegal immigration.
“No, he started the (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) teams out there as of today,” Homan told “America’s Newsroom.” “We instructed them to prioritize the public safety threats we’re looking for. We’ve been working on the target list.”
The administration has vowed to launch a “historic” mass deportation operation, and sources told Fox News Digital they were holding back. expected on “day one”. Some media reported an operation in Chicago on Friday, but Homan said it was being re-evaluated because of the leak.
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“There was some discussion about Chicago because the specific operational plan was released. So we had to look and reevaluate, ‘Does this raise officer safety issues?’ “And it does, but we’ve addressed it and the teams are effective today,” he said.
As for who the operation will target, Homan said the priority is threats to public safety, but has repeatedly said no one is “off the table” when it comes to arrests if they are found. ·legally in the United States.
“Out of the gate are the threats to public safety, those who are in the country illegally who have been convicted, arrested for serious crimes,” he said. “But let me be clear. It’s not just threats to public safety that are going to be arrested, because in sanctuary cities, we’re not allowed to have that threat to public safety in jail, which means we have to “go to the neighborhood and find him.”
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Thomas Homan speaks at the National Conservative Conference in Washington DC, Monday, July 8, 2024. (DOMINIC GWINN/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images)
“And when we find him, he may be with others. And unlike the last administration, we’re not going to tell ICE agents not to arrest an illegal alien. So if they find him, others will be arrested. So that sanctuary cities will take place. exactly what they don’t want, more officers in their neighborhoods and more collateral arrests,” he said.
Homan spoke hours after Fox News reported on two DHS memos, including one that rescinded a 2021 memo from then DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkaswhich provided an expanded list of areas that are “protected areas” where ICE could not engage in immigration enforcement. He said the policy was designed to ensure the enforcement did not limit “people’s access to essential services or participation in essential activities”.
These areas include schools, universities, healthcare facilities, places of worship, “children’s gathering places”, social service establishments, food banks, religious or civil ceremonies, and disaster or emergency relief and response centers.
the note issued Monday overruled that guidance and said common sense should be used.
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“Going forward, law enforcement officers should continue to use that discretion along with a healthy dose of common sense,” the new memo said. “It is not necessary, however, for the agency head to create bright-line rules about where our immigration laws are allowed to be enforced.”
