Donald Trump’s new border czar, Tom Homan, says it’s guaranteed the future president will withdraw federal funds from states that don’t adhere to his mass deportation plans.
Homan, who served at the highest levels of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) under Presidents Barack Obama and Trump, was recently tapped by the president-elect to serve as “border czar,” a role tailor-made to enforce the deportation mandate of Trump to implement.
The president-elect repeatedly claimed during his campaign that he would implement the “largest deportation program in American history” on day one.
Homan will be tasked with helping Trump fulfill that promise.
Speaking on Fox News with host Mark Levin on Saturday, the host suggested that the border czar has an important tool at his disposal to force states to comply with mass deportations.
“Like the Confederacy, they want to move forward on their own,” Levin said of states that don’t want to enforce deportations. ‘They want to do their own thing. For me, one of the things you got was a powerful weapon, okay, no federal funds – boom – final thoughts?”
Homan wasted no time in immediately confirming that states and municipalities that do not “cooperate” with federal immigration agents will see their federal funds limited.
“That’s going to happen,” Homan said. “I guarantee President Trump will.”
A migrant from Venezuela climbs a border fence in an attempt to enter El Paso, Texas, and seek asylum from Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico, on April 2, 2024
Since fiscal year 2021, agents have encountered nearly 11 million migrants attempting to enter the US
Restricting federal funds that typically flow to the states could have devastating consequences for every member of the union.
States routinely receive billions of dollars in revenue in the form of federal grants.
In fiscal year 2021, California received a whopping $163 billion from the feds, while New York took in $110 billion and Texas $106 billion, according to the federal government. facts.
While these numbers have been inflated due to the expensive federal response to COVID-19 at the time, which provided additional funding to states, the trend persists and states still routinely receive tens of billions annually.
Federal grants were the second-largest source of revenue for states in FY 2022 Pew Analysis.
There have been nearly 11 million encounters with migrants since the start of fiscal year 2021 facts shows.
By comparison, during Trump’s first administration between fiscal years 2017 and 2020, there were only 3.1 million meetings.
Record levels of illegal immigration have irked Americans across the country, as poll after poll found that migration and border security were among the top issues for voters in this year’s election.
Democrats, meanwhile, are outraged by the idea that migrants who enter the US illegally could face deportation.
And some indicate they will defy any immigration order, putting them in direct conflict with the new administration.
Denver’s Democratic Mayor Mike Johnston, for example, said he would do everything he could to keep federal immigration officials out of his city if they tried to deport migrants there.
He said the effort could end in a dangerous standoff, similar to China’s infamous 1989 Tiananmen Square protest.
“It’s like Tiananmen Square with the rose and the gun at the moment, right? You’d have all these Highland mothers standing up for the migrants. And you don’t want to mess with them,” Johnston said.
Homan said we have guaranteed that Trump will limit federal funding to states that do not comply with his deportation mission
US President Donald Trump visits part of the US-Mexico border wall in Otay Mesa, California, USA September 18, 2019
Trump vowed to carry out the largest deportation mission in history after years of record illegal immigration under President Joe Biden
Homan addressed Johnston’s comments head-on, telling Levin that mayors and governors trying to thwart Trump and his team’s deportation plans are complicit in heinous migrant-related crimes, such as the infamous murder of Georgian student Laken Riley, who was killed by a Venezuelan migrant who entered the US illegally.
“For those mayors and governors who say they’re going to stop ICE from doing their job, stop me from doing this job, listen to the Laken Riley tape,” Homan said.
‘Listen to the 17 minutes in which this girl suffers, fights for her life, fights for her breath.’
‘This little girl didn’t want to die, she fought like hell. Listen to that tape. That happens every day in this country at the hands of an illegal alien.”
Roughly 35 percent of Colorado’s revenue in fiscal year 2022 came from federal grants, Pew data shows. This means that Johnston State could see a huge reduction in resources if they did not comply with Trump’s immigration orders.
And the border czar reiterated that the deportation mission will protect Americans.
“President Trump has made clear that we will prioritize public safety threats and national security threats because they pose the greatest danger to this country.”
“What governor or mayor doesn’t want threats to public safety and national security coming from their neighborhoods, from their communities? That is their first responsibility.’
So you can hate Trump all you want, but you have to love your community more than President Trump,” Homan added.