Posted on 07/18/2017 2:13:38 PM PDT by jazusamo
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Acting Director Thomas Homan said Tuesday that he plans on sending hundreds of agents to sanctuary cities in the near future as part of a major crackdown on illegal immigrants.
Homan told the Washington Examiner Tuesday that he plans to address "ludicrous" sanctuary cities.
"In the America I grew up in, cities didn't shield people who violated the law," Homan told the publication. “What I want to get is a clear understanding from everybody, from the congressmen to the politicians to law enforcement to those who enter the country illegally, that ICE is open for business."
According to The Examiner, Homan said he plans on sending hundreds of agents to those cities.
"We’re going to enforce the laws on the books without apology, we’ll continue to prioritize what we do,” Homan continued. “But it’s not OK to violate the laws of this country anymore, you’re going to be held accountable.”
During his interview with the Examiner, Homan also praised the Trump administration, saying it has "taken the handcuffs off law enforcement," allowing them to address immigration more thoroughly.
"You can like President Trump, not like him, like his policies, not like his policies, but one thing no one can argue with is the effect they've had," said Homan.
According to Homan, illegal border crossings have decreased by 70 percent under Trump and arrests inside the country have increased by 40 percent.
The 30-year immigration agency veteran also said that he has gotten a green light to hire 10,000 new immigration agents, who will work to arrest illegal criminals sheltered in sanctuary cities.
Sanctuary cities are jurisdictions with policies limiting cooperation between local law enforcement and federal immigration agents and include cities such as New York, San Francisco, Chicago and Austin.
President Trump campaigned on cracking down on illegal immigration and stepping up border security.
Following his inauguration, many cities started declaring that they would protect illegal immigrants, sparking the debate over sanctuary cities.
Fun! Stay safe, ICE!
THIS is worth all the crap we’ve had to withstand to get DJT elected.
For this and this alone, it will ALL be worth it.
Promise made, promise KEPT.
Logically, this could thwart a lot of the Sanctuary City misbehavior. One complaint we keep hearing from them is they won’t hold criminal invaders for any interval at all until ICE picks them up. If ICE has a presence in those cities, that argument disappears. It would also be nice if ICE could field complaints from US citizens who aren’t hired at places where invaders work.
Liberal democrats and GOPe are hard at work in smoke filled rooms trying to figure out how to get rid of Trump and Homan...
I heard they were deportign more under Obama.
Most valid points.
Also if ICE are in these cities in numbers the illegals will be scared to death and some will self deport.
One of my favorites was a warehouse where the worker’s used their SS# to clock in and out. This one guy had to look at a piece of paper in order to clock in and out.
Probably not in any meaningful way. An Obama trick would be to catch and release them, but make it easy for them to come back in a few miles down the road. Good for the statistics.
AT LAST! The law is going to be enforced, and we are going to be protected from invasion!
This is wonderful news !
Now that’s what I’m talking about!!!
There goes a lot of Democrat votes.
I’d take the opposite approach. Round them up in non sanctuary cities then bus them to the sanctuary cities. I’d pull up the buses in the best neighborhoods and let them out. I’d make sure they had gotten plenty of water on the bus and no toilet breaks for three hours. That should do the trick.
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I'm an 'old guy', so I'm old enough to remember a time when most Democrats were not outright America-hating Communists (like today's bumper crop of elected Democrat idiots), or at least they had either the decency or (more likely) the cowardice to hide it.
“In the America I grew up in, cities didn’t shield people who violated the law,” Homan told the publication.
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I really don’t know anything about Homan, but this statement alone tells me that he is a great choice. Maybe he will be promoted from acting director.
Awesome! Let the games begin...
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