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Tom Homan Steps In After Officers In Sanctuary City Targeted For Helping ICE

"Help is coming!"

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Incoming White House ‘border czar’ Tom Homan speaks during Turning Point’s annual AmericaFest 2024 in Phoenix, Arizona, on December 22, 2024. (Photo by JOSH EDELSON / AFP) (Photo by JOSH EDELSON/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump border czar Tom Homan said this week that he will fully support the local police officers who are being targeted for helping U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement ICE personnel in a New York sanctuary city.

Officers from the Rochester Police Department (RPD) are being targeted by Rochester’s Democrat Mayor Malik Evans and Police Chief David Smith for responding to a call for backup from ICE agents on Monday, and allegedly handcuffing individuals when on the scene. The department has even opened an internal investigation into the matter.

“The officers on the scene verbally directed the occupants to get out of the vehicle, and this is against our policy,” Mayor Evans said at a press conference this week, 13 WHAM News reported.

“Our policy is crystal clear. City police officers do not help or participate in federal immigration activities,” Evans said, referring to sanctuary city policy. “Every RPD officer — I’ve instructed the chief — every officer receives more training on general orders to make sure all members are fully aware and fully understand this policy.”

“From watching the body-worn camera footage, what is concerning to me is despite the fact that we were called, we went lights and sirens,” Chief Smith said. “I see in the video a total lack of urgency on the part of multiple Border Patrol officers at the scene.”

“We are not to be handcuffing subjects,” he said. “We are not to be doing pat frisks on subjects, and we are absolutely not going to be detaining them or putting them into our cars.”

Homan has repeatedly offered his support for these officers who helped ICE, saying that he’s planning to come to Rochester and that “help is coming.”

“I stand with the officers of the Rochester, New York Police Department that answered the emergency assistance call from the U.S Border Patrol,” the border czar said in a statement on X. “The men and women of the Border Patrol have never refused the request for assistance from any law enforcement agency when they are available. That is the way it should be. Law enforcement officers should not be abandoned in the time of need because of politics.”

“Sanctuary policies endanger our police and the public,” he added. “President Trump and AG Pam Bondi are committed to taking them on and so am I. Help is coming!”

According to the Rochester Police Locust Club, Homan said during a conference in Nashville, Tennessee, that he’s “coming to Rochester.”

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