Incoming border czar Tom Homan meeting with New York City Mayor Eric Adams on Thursday to discuss the city’s ongoing migrant crisis and strategies for deporting illegal migrants with the help of the New York Police Department.
Homan, who served as acting director of ICE during President Donald Trump’s first term, has been named border czar in the incoming administration by the newly elected president.
“It went great,” Homan told Sean Hannity on Thursday night. “Look, I talked to the mayor for over an hour. He understands. And today he proved that as mayor of New York City, he is more concerned about public safety than politics. To the Mayor of Chicago and San Diego City Council Mayor and Governor Pritzker, I wish they would all take a page out of Mayor Eric Adams’ playbook.”
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Homan recalled how the “ex-cop” came out of Adams during their closed-door meeting Thursday in New York.
He wants to help ICE take criminal threats off the streets. He wants to help ICE look for threats to national security. He wants to help ICE find more than 340,000 missing children, many of them. So a great meeting.”
“Hats off to the mayor who came to the table and worked with us,” Homan said.
The upcoming border czar Tom Homan sits down with Mayor Eric Adams of New York. (Courtesy of New York Mayor’s Office)
Homan revealed that since his meeting with New York’s mayor, other leaders from across the aisle have reached out to him.
“I’ve been approached by a few other mayors, even Governor Pritzker… he’s willing to sit down. So I think what Mayor Adams did today is not only good for New York City, I think it will be a domino effect. I hope some mayors will come forward after seeing the success we had today,” Homan said.
Homan further praised Adams for his desire to “understand” how ICE does its work and his willingness to use executive orders to address some of the “roadblocks” New York City faces.
Police officers take security measures as migrants line up outside the Roosevelt Hotel while waiting to be placed in a shelter, while asylum seekers camp outside the hotel after the Manhattan shelter reaches full capacity on August 2, 2023 in New York City. (Photo by Fatih Aktas/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
“He (Adams) has told me he’s going to look at executive orders to undo some of the damage de Blasio has done,” Homan noted. “He would like to see us back at Rikers Island to arrest the bad guy in the safety and security of the jail, rather than releasing him into the community and endangering the community and endangering my officers – it risk of someone in prison. community instead of in prison. He wants his law enforcement officers to release criminal aliens to us on the ground and not on the streets.
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Homan spoke with Adams about the NYPD assisting in locating and apprehending illegal immigrants throughout the city.
Adams “has a lot of uniforms in this city that know what’s going on in their neighborhood,” Homan said. “The NYPD has one of the best intelligence apparatuses in the world, and it’s going to help us. So we’re going to count on every uniform in this city to give us information about where the criminals are.”
Recent reports indicate that New York City is currently home to hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants, with nearly 60,000 “criminal” migrants, amid growing security and resource concerns.
Migrants arriving from Eagle Pass, Texas, walk to shelters at Floyd Bennett Field in the Brooklyn borough of New York on February 3, 2024. A migrant camp has been set up at Floyd Bennett Field, a former military airport. (Charly TRIBALLEAU / AFP)
Laken Riley’s name also came up during the meeting, according to Homan, when he talked about illegal immigrants roaming the streets of New York.
“Laken Riley’s killer was arrested here in New York City for child endangerment. If things had been different, ICE could have taken custody of him instead of releasing him and going to Georgia to to commit that gruesome murder,” said Homan. “So he (Adams) asked a lot of good questions and I left that meeting feeling really good, and we’re going to continue our conversations.”
After the meeting with Adams, the incoming border czar expressed confidence and said New York City is “about to get a lot safer.”
“I think New York City is about to send a strong message to the rest of the world that we are taking the right steps to address threats to public safety, especially those who shouldn’t be in this country to begin with.” … We’re going to make New York safer,” Homan promised.
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