'We're Going To Flood The Zone': Homan Pledges Crackdown On Illegal Immigrants In Sanctuary Cities

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Speaking to reporters, Border Czar Tom Homan discussed plans to send ICE to sanctuary cities.

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00:00The president today previewed sort of a law enforcement action in New Orleans.

00:05Is that an immigration-related...

00:06Pardon me?

00:07The president today previewed law enforcement actions in New Orleans.

00:12So what might happen in Chicago.

00:14Is that going to be immigration-related?

00:16Yes, it's going to be immigration enforcement.

00:18I mean, that's what I'm involved in, right?

00:22So, you know, the president said weeks ago.

00:24I said weeks ago that with Sanctuary Cities, how we're going to address it,

00:28we're going to flood the zone.

00:30We've got 10,000 more agents coming on.

00:32We're going to flood the zone.

00:33We don't have a problem, a biggest problem in, like, Florida,

00:37where every sheriff and chief is working with us or Texas.

00:40So what are we going to send our additional resources to Sanctuary Cities?

00:43Why?

00:44Because we know there's a problem there.

00:46We know for a fact we're releasing illegal alien public safety threats to the streets every day.

00:52So we're going to send the boots on the ground to the places that we know there's a problem.

00:58Address the biggest problems first.

00:59And that's your biggest cities.

01:00They're Sanctuary Cities.

01:01Whether it's New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Portland, Seattle.

01:07I mean, they're Sanctuary Cities, and we're going to flood the zone.

01:10Sanctuary Cities, I've said it a thousand times.

01:12They're going to get exactly what they don't want, more agents in the communities, and more works on enforcement.

01:18Because if they won't let us arrest a bad guy in the safety and security of a county jail,

01:23we're safer for the agent, safer for the alien, certainly safer for the community.

01:28If they're going to release them back in the community, then we've got to send a whole team to look for that person,

01:33which they release a lot of people and send a lot of teams.

01:35If we can't find them in the community, then we'll find them at the worksite.

01:39And when we go in the community, I want to make this clear,

01:42the Sanctuary Cities, again, will get something they don't want.

01:44When we find a bad person, and we will, if they're with others that aren't a criminal threat,

01:52but they're in the country illegally, they're coming too.

01:54So more collateral arrests are going to occur in Sanctuary Cities because you forced us into the community.

01:59When can the jurisdictions expect you guys to flood the zone?

02:03It's coming.

02:04I don't want to get too specific because we don't want to give them too much heads up, but it's coming.

02:10We've already started adding resources to some Sanctuary Cities, but operations are being planned.

02:15And it's coming.

02:16And, look, it's the right thing to do.

02:19Remember after the election, Brandon Johnson said, I wasn't welcome in Chicago.

02:24Guess what?

02:24The first place I went was Chicago.

02:26And I kicked off an operation there.

02:27And the first day, we arrested, like, nine TDA members.

02:34We arrested, like, seven or nine sexual, child sexual predators.

02:39We arrested two illegal aliens that had homicide convictions walking the street.

02:44We arrested TDA members that were selling pistols with a switch, which means that pistols are fully automatic now.

02:55We made Chicago safer in one day.

02:58And that's what we're going to continue doing.

03:00We're not going to let up.

03:01President Trump said he was going to prioritize Sanctuary Cities.

03:03That's exactly what we're doing.

03:05And I applaud Pam Bondi for suing Sanctuary Cities.

03:07It needs to happen.

03:08Sanctuaries are sanctuaries for criminals.

03:11They're not sanctuaries for law-abiding Americans.

03:13It doesn't help to have a sanctuary city because that's where the highest crime rates usually are.

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