President-elect Donald Trump’s border czar Tom Homan vows to instill harsh consequences on sanctuary city leaders who are threatening to block immigration authorities from carrying out their planned mass deportation — telling them plain and simple: “Don’t test us.”
“Let me be clear, there is going to be a mass deportation because we just finished a mass illegal immigration crisis on the border,” Homan said during a visit to the border Tuesday in Eagle Pass, Texas, alongside Gov. Greg Abbott.
“If we don’t do it, what is the option? Let them stay? Cause if you let them stay, you’ll never fix the border. You’re gonna send a message to the rest of the world: enter the country illegally, which is a crime, ignore a court order … we’re telling the whole world it’s OK to enter this country illegally, you’ve never got to go home,” he added.
To leaders threatening to get in the way of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Homan warned, “Don’t cross that line.”
“It is a felony to knowingly harbor or conceal an illegal immigrant from immigration authorities. Don’t test us.”
One of those leaders is Denver Mayor Mike Johnston, who recently pledged to shield migrants in his sanctuary city from Trump’s mass deportation by using local cops and 50,000 residents “stationed at the county line” — calling it a “Tiananmen Square moment.”
“More than us having [federal agents] stationed at the county line to keep them out, you would have 50,000 Denverites there,” Johnston recently told the outlet Denverite.
“It’s like the Tiananmen Square moment … right?” he said, referring to the famous caught-on-video showdown between a Chinese student and government tank in Tiananmen Square in China during the 1989 rebellion.
“You’d have every one of those Highland moms who came out for the migrants. And you do not want to mess with them,” Johnston said of Denver residents prepared to go to the mat against the federal government.
Homan recently told The Post that he hopes the incoming Trump admin will file lawsuits and withhold federal funding to sanctuary cities.
If that doesn’t work, he said, the White House will “flood” ICE officers to those areas, where they will be waiting outside local jails for illegal migrants to be released.
Homan said the admin will prioritize illegal migrant criminals first for deportation.
Of the nearly 7.8 million illegal immigrants who are in the United States and on the radar of federal immigration officials, 662,586 are convicted felons or have criminal charges pending.
In New York City alone, “it would take a lifetime” to deport the city’s migrant criminals, the head of ICE’s field office in the Big Apple recently told The Post.
