President Donald Trump told reporters on Monday that it would be &#8220;great&#8221; if his border czar, Tom Homan, arrested California Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom over the anti-ICE riots that hit Los Angeles County over the weekend.
Homan threatened Newsom and L.A. Mayor Karen Bass with arrest on Sunday if they “cross[ed]” the line&#8221; and impeded federal agents from arresting illegal immigrants. Asked about Homan&#8217;s comments, Trump said, &#8220;I would do it if I were Tom. I think it&#8217;s great. Gavin likes the publicity, but I think it would be a great thing.&#8221;
&#8220;He’s done a terrible job,&#8221; the president added of Newsom. &#8220;Look, I like Gavin Newsom, he’s a nice guy, but he’s grossly incompetent.&#8221;
Newsom responded to Trump&#8217;s comments, saying they are &#8220;an unmistakable step toward authoritarianism.&#8221;
&#8220;The President of the United States just called for the arrest of a sitting Governor. This is a day I hoped I would never see in America,&#8221; Newsom wrote on X. &#8220;I don’t care if you’re a Democrat or a Republican this is a line we cannot cross as a nation — this is an unmistakable step toward authoritarianism.&#8221;
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The President of the United States just called for the arrest of a sitting Governor.
This is a day I hoped I would never see in America.
I don’t care if you’re a Democrat or a Republican this is a line we cannot cross as a nation — this is an unmistakable step toward… <a href="https://t.co/tsTX1nrHAu">pic.twitter.com/tsTX1nrHAu</a>
&mdash; Gavin Newsom (@GavinNewsom) <a href="https://twitter.com/GavinNewsom/status/1932121823925403834?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 9, 2025</a></blockquote>
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On Sunday, Newsom <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/you-know-where-to-find-me-newsom-dares-border-czar-to-arrest-him-over-anti-ice-riots?topStoryPosition=undefined&amp;author=Zach+Jewell&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=3&amp;row=1&amp;rowHeadline=Top+Stories&amp;rowType=Top+Stories&amp;title=%E2%80%98You+Know+Where+To+Find+Me%E2%80%99%3A+Newsom+Dares+Border+Czar+To+Arrest+Him+Over+Anti-ICE+Riots">dared</a> Homan to arrest him, telling MSNBC, “He’s a tough guy. Why doesn’t he do that? He knows where to find me.”
“The hell are they doing? These guys need to grow up,” the governor continued. “They need to stop, and we need to push back. And I’m sorry to be so clear, but that kind of bloviating is exhausting. So, Tom, arrest me. Let’s go,” he added. &#8220;But you know what? Let your hands off 4-year-old girls that are trying to get educated. Let your hands off these poor people. They’re just trying to live their lives, man. Trying to live their lives, paying their taxes. Been here for 10 years. The fear, the horror.”
Homan appeared to back down from his threat on Monday morning, saying there was no discussion about arresting the governor.
“What we discussed was for those protesters that crossed the line … you can protest, you get your First Amendment rights, but when you cross that line, you put hands on an ICE officer or you destroy property or I’d say that you impede law enforcement, or you’re knowingly harboring and concealing an illegal alien, that’s a crime, and the Trump administration is not going to tolerate it,” Homan told &#8220;Fox &amp; Friends.&#8221;
“Then the reporter asked me, well, could Governor Newsom or Mayor Bass be arrested? I said, ‘Well no one’s above the law. If they cross the line and commit a crime, absolutely they can,’ so there was no discussion about arresting Newsom,” he added.
In a post on Truth Social earlier on Monday, Trump <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-says-newsom-bass-should-thank-him-for-deploying-national-guard-to-keep-our-citizens-safe?author=Zach+Jewell&amp;category=undefined&amp;elementPosition=2&amp;row=3&amp;rowHeadline=Latest+News&amp;rowType=Vertical+Carousel&amp;title=Trump+Says+Newsom%2C+Bass+Should+Thank+Him+For+Deploying+National+Guard+%E2%80%98To+Keep+Our+Citizens+SAFE%E2%80%99">said</a> Newsom and Bass should be thanking him for sending in the National Guard, a move he argues saved L.A. from getting “completely obliterated.” Both Newsom and Bass argued that there was no need to deploy National Guard troops to the city, and Newsom said that the state would file a lawsuit against the Trump administration over the move. The governor said Trump’s move was “unconstitutional” and that the administration did not coordinate with his office before deploying the National Guard, a power typically exercised by governors.
Trump, however, could invoke the Insurrection Act of 1807, which allows the president to federalize the National Guard and deploy the U.S. military to quell domestic disorder or violence.

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‘I Would Do It’: Trump Says It Would Be ‘Great’ If His Border Czar Arrested Newsom

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California Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom condemned the Trump administration on Sunday and dared border czar Tom Homan to arrest him amid the anti-ICE riots in Los Angeles County.
Trump drew the ire of California Democrats, such as Newsom and L.A. Mayor Karen Bass, after he deployed the National Guard to shut down the riots that <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/national-guard-rolls-into-los-angeles-after-days-of-anti-ice-riots">broke out</a> over the weekend. Homan then warned Newsom and Bass against impeding federal law enforcement officers and threatened them with arrest if they &#8220;cross[ed]&#8221; the line.&#8221; The California governor shot back, imploring the Trump administration to keep their &#8220;hands off these poor people&#8221; who are &#8220;just trying to live their lives.&#8221;
&#8220;He’s a tough guy. Why doesn’t he do that? He knows where to find me,” Newsom said of Homan in an interview with <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/californias-governor-unfazed-threats-arrest-trump-administratio-rcna211752">MSNBC</a>.
“The hell are they doing? These guys need to grow up,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;They need to stop, and we need to push back. And I’m sorry to be so clear, but that kind of bloviating is exhausting. So, Tom, arrest me. Let’s go,” he added.
“But you know what? Let your hands off 4-year-old girls that are trying to get educated. Let your hands off these poor people. They’re just trying to live their lives, man,&#8221; Newsom <a href="https://nypost.com/2025/06/09/us-news/gov-newsom-adds-fuel-to-fire-dares-trumps-border-czar-tom-homan-to-arrest-him-amid-violent-anti-ice-riots/">added</a>. &#8220;Trying to live their lives, paying their taxes. Been here for 10 years. The fear, the horror.”
Over the weekend, federal immigration agents, along with state and local law enforcement officers, were attacked by rioters hurling rocks, concrete, and &#8220;commercial grade fireworks&#8221; — actions that LAPD Chief Jim McDonnell said could have killed the police officers. At least one Customs and Border Protection agent was injured after rioters <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/kill-ice-foreign-flags-and-fires-sweep-la-as-riots-erupt-against-immigration-enforcement?author=Tim+Pearce&amp;category=undefined&amp;elementPosition=11&amp;row=3&amp;rowHeadline=Latest+News&amp;rowType=Vertical+Carousel&amp;title=%E2%80%98Kill+ICE%E2%80%99%3A+Foreign+Flags+And+Fires+Sweep+LA+As+Riots+Erupt+Against+Immigration+Enforcement">pelted</a> his vehicle with rocks. Many of the rioters waved foreign flags and burned self-driving robotaxis in the street.
Homan responded to Newsom on Monday morning, <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/trump-border-czar-responds-newsoms-arrest-me-challenge-california-riots-over-ice-raids">telling</a> &#8220;Fox &amp; Friends&#8221; that &#8220;no one&#8217;s above the law,&#8221; but added that there was no discussion about arresting the governor.
&#8220;What we discussed was for those protesters that crossed the line … you can protest, you get your First Amendment rights, but when you cross that line, you put hands on an ICE officer or you destroy property or I&#8217;d say that you impede law enforcement, or you&#8217;re knowingly harboring and concealing an illegal alien, that&#8217;s a crime, and the Trump administration is not going to tolerate it,&#8221; Homan said.
&#8220;Then the reporter asked me, well, could Governor Newsom or Mayor Bass be arrested? I said, &#8216;Well no one&#8217;s above the law. If they cross the line and commit a crime, absolutely they can,&#8217; so there was no discussion about arresting Newsom,&#8221; he added.
Newsom <a href="https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5339718-california-lawsuit-trump-national-guard/">said</a> that California would file a lawsuit against the Trump administration on Monday over the National Guard deployment to Los Angeles, arguing that Trump&#8217;s move is &#8220;unconstitutional.&#8221; Newsom stated that the Trump administration did not coordinate with his office on deploying 2,000 National Guard troops, despite Trump&#8217;s order claiming otherwise. Trump has not invoked the Insurrection Act of 1807, which allows the president to federalize the National Guard and deploy the U.S. military to quell domestic disorder or violence.
“We have no problem working collaboratively in a mutual aid system with local law enforcement. But there’s a protocol, there’s a process. He didn’t care about that. And the worst part, he completely lied,” Newsom added.
The Insurrection Act of 1807 was most recently <a href="https://apnews.com/article/insurrection-act-trump-troops-newsom-military-national-guard-a842f79e1c0e244039be274a6f266a7a">invoked</a> by President George H.W. Bush in 1992 to respond to the Rodney King riots in Los Angeles.
On Saturday, Newsom accused the Trump administration of deploying the National Guard because the White House wants &#8220;a spectacle.&#8221;
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Trump <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-vows-to-liberate-los-angeles-shut-down-migrant-riots-and-insurrectionist-mobs?topStoryPosition=undefined&amp;author=Leif+Le+Mahieu&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=0&amp;row=1&amp;rowHeadline=Top+Stories&amp;rowType=Top+Stories&amp;title=Trump+Vows+To+%E2%80%98Liberate+Los+Angeles%2C%E2%80%99+Shut+Down+%E2%80%98Migrant+Riots%E2%80%99+And+%E2%80%98Insurrectionist+Mobs%E2%80%99">blasted</a> Newsom and Bass for allowing the anti-ICE protests to get out of control.
“Governor Gavin Newscum and ‘Mayor’ Bass should apologize to the people of Los Angeles for the absolutely horrible job that they have done, and this now includes the ongoing L.A. riots,” Trump wrote. “These are not protesters, they are troublemakers and insurrectionists. Remember, NO MASKS!”
The president then said he has ordered Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, and Attorney General Pam Bondi &#8220;to take all such action necessary to liberate Los Angeles from the Migrant Invasion, and put an end to these Migrant riots.&#8221; Hegseth <a href="https://x.com/PeteHegseth/status/1931533276985823392?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1931533276985823392%7Ctwgr%5Ec83cf98631e82d2adb33d89ce4b46397eadf5190%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailywire.com%2Fnews%2Fderanged-behavior-gavin-newsom-declares-war-on-pete-hegseth-gets-more-than-he-bargained-for">said</a> on Saturday that active duty Marines stand ready to be &#8220;mobilized&#8221; to L.A. &#8220;if violence continues,&#8221; a statement that Newsom called &#8220;deranged behavior.&#8221;

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‘You Know Where To Find Me’: Newsom Dares Border Czar To Arrest Him Over Anti-ICE Riots

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National Guard troops will be deployed into Los Angeles County to aid immigration enforcement as protests in the area escalate into attacks on federal immigration officers.
White House border czar Tom Homan appeared on Fox News on Saturday evening to hit back at local officials who have criticized federal immigration operations in the city. Homan said that National Guard troops would be in Los Angeles County by Saturday night to aid immigration enforcement and tamp down unrest.
“This is about enforcing the law and, again, we&#8217;re not going to apologize for doing it. We&#8217;re stepping up,” Homan said. “We’re already ahead of the game. We&#8217;re already mobilizing. We&#8217;re going to bring National Guard in tonight. We&#8217;re going to continue doing our job. We&#8217;re going to push back on these people, and we&#8217;re going to enforce the law.”
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Border Czar Tom Homan announced that the National Guard will be deployed in Los Angeles County:<a href="https://t.co/cdqcEoUgHt">pic.twitter.com/cdqcEoUgHt</a>
— Andy Ngo (@MrAndyNgo) <a href="https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1931507718810128851?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 8, 2025</a></blockquote>
President Donald Trump <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114644899133296098">posted</a> on Truth Social Saturday evening that the federal government will “step in” if California officials can not contain the violence engulfing Los Angeles over immigration enforcement operations.
“If Governor Gavin Newscum, of California, and Mayor Karen Bass, of Los Angeles, can’t do their jobs, which everyone knows they can’t, then the Federal Government will step in and solve the problem, RIOTS &amp; LOOTERS, the way it should be solved!” said Trump.
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt posted on X that Trump signed a &#8220;Presidential Memorandum deploying 2,000 National Guardsmen to address the lawlessness that has been allowed to fester.&#8221;
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In recent days, violent mobs have attacked ICE Officers and Federal Law Enforcement Agents carrying out basic deportation operations in Los Angeles, California.
These operations are essential to halting and reversing the invasion of illegal criminals into the United States.
In…
— Karoline Leavitt (@PressSec) <a href="https://twitter.com/PressSec/status/1931520821471928407?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 8, 2025</a></blockquote>
Anti-immigration enforcement protests in Los Angeles County <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/you-bring-chaos-well-bring-handcuffs-dan-bongino-responds-to-protests-at-los-angeles-ice-raids?topStoryPosition=undefined&amp;author=Virginia+Kruta&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=1&amp;row=1&amp;rowHeadline=Top+Stories&amp;rowType=Top+Stories&amp;title=%E2%80%98You+Bring+Chaos%2C+We%E2%80%99ll+Bring+Handcuffs%E2%80%99%3A+Dan+Bongino+Responds+To+Protests+At+Los+Angeles+ICE+Raids">escalated</a> into attacks against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) officials on Saturday. Anti-immigration enforcement demonstrations erupted in the city as immigration agents arrested dozens of illegal aliens for deportation.
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass spoke out against the federal immigration operations in a statement on Friday night.
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“As Mayor of a proud city of immigrants, who contribute to our city in so many ways, I am deeply angered by what has taken place. These tactics sow terror in our communities and disrupt basic principles of safety in our city,” Bass posted to X. “We will not stand for this.”
FBI Director Kash Patel responded on X: “We will.”
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We will <a href="https://t.co/T9Jlc63egl">https://t.co/T9Jlc63egl</a>
&mdash; FBI Director Kash Patel (@FBIDirectorKash) <a href="https://twitter.com/FBIDirectorKash/status/1931382689212334227?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 7, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Protesters in and around Los Angeles clashed with immigration officials on Friday and Saturday as federal officials warned protesters not to interfere with ongoing operations. Federal law enforcement in riot gear used tear gas and rubber bullets to <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/07/us/la-immigration-raids-ice.html">disperse</a> crowds that descended on some ICE personnel.
&#8220;A message to the LA rioters: you will not stop us or slow us down. @ICEgov will continue to enforce the law. And if you lay a hand on a law enforcement officer, you will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law,” Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said in a <a href="https://x.com/sec_noem/status/1931456023493308787">post</a> on X.
Protesters pelted one CBP vehicle with rocks, injuring at least one of the agents inside.
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BREAKING: <a href="https://twitter.com/FoxNews?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@FoxNews</a> has obtained intense video showing <a href="https://twitter.com/CBP?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@CBP</a> agents’ perspective inside their vehicle as it is pelted with rocks while they attempt to leave the anti-ICE protest in Paramount, CA today. You can hear &amp; see the windows &amp; windshield breaking w/ each hit. Federal source… <a href="https://t.co/2oo2N4GzU1">pic.twitter.com/2oo2N4GzU1</a>
&mdash; Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) <a href="https://twitter.com/BillMelugin_/status/1931480398824890496?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 7, 2025</a></blockquote>
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I’m told one of the agents suffered a minor laceration to his hand as a result of a rock penetrating the windshield. Not major &#8211; but shows things could have been much worse if a few more rocks had come though as the windshield had cracked open. <a href="https://t.co/UPknsi0vaj">pic.twitter.com/UPknsi0vaj</a>
&mdash; Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) <a href="https://twitter.com/BillMelugin_/status/1931487076262007015?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 7, 2025</a></blockquote>
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FBI officials are working to identify protesters who attacked the CBP agents.
“We are currently seeking information regarding the identity of the person(s) throwing rocks at vehicles conducting critical law enforcement operations. One of the perpetrators in this video is wearing a helmet, and we’re going to use our investigative tools to locate the individual,” FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino <a href="https://x.com/FBIDDBongino/status/1931443283621773508">said</a> on X. “I strongly suggest you turn yourself in, it’s only a matter of time.”
The title of this piece has been updated to reflect more recent information.

U.S. Border Patrol

Trump Orders National Guard To LA To Shut Down Anti-ICE Riots

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After hard-Left Democrat Boston Mayor Michelle Wu seemingly compared ICE agents to Nazis, the Department of Homeland Security fired back, calling the apparent comparison “sickening.”
“I don&#8217;t know of any police department that routinely wears masks. We know that there are other groups that routinely wear masks. NSC-131 routinely wears masks,” Wu told reporters.
“Mayor, just to clarify, are you comparing ICE to  — you said — to NSC-131, a neo-Nazi group? Are you comparing them to a neo-Nazi group?” a reporter asked.
“What I said is that Boston police, and no police department that I know of at the local level, routinely wears masks” she answered.
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🚨 SHOCKING: Boston Mayor Michelle Wu compares ICE agents to neo-Nazis:
&quot;I don&#39;t know of any police department that routinely wears masks. We know that there are other groups that routinely wear masks. NSC-131 routinely wears masks.&quot;
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“Mayor Wu comparing ICE agents to neo-Nazis is SICKENING,” DHS wrote on X. “When our heroic law enforcement officers conduct operations, they clearly identify themselves as law enforcement while wearing masks to protect themselves from being targeted by known and suspected gang members, murders, and rapists. Attacks and demonization of our brave law enforcement is WRONG. ICE officers are now facing a 413% increase in assaults.”
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Mayor Wu comparing ICE agents to neo-Nazis is SICKENING.
When our heroic law enforcement officers conduct operations, they clearly identify themselves as law enforcement while wearing masks to protect themselves from being targeted by known and suspected gang members, murders,… <a href="https://t.co/BrRbkql31O">https://t.co/BrRbkql31O</a>
&mdash; Homeland Security (@DHSgov) <a href="https://twitter.com/DHSgov/status/1930637441389543800?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 5, 2025</a></blockquote>
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The White House noted, “ICE just conducted its largest ever immigration enforcement operation across Massachusetts and Mayor Wu&#8217;s city of Boston, where they arrested nearly 800 illegals with criminal records. &#8230;   The streets of Boston and the surrounding area are safer today thanks to the men and women of ICE.  Mayor Wu&#8217;s disgusting demonization of ICE agents is part of the reason why they&#8217;re seeing a massive uptick in doxing, assaults and death threats.  She should be ashamed of herself.”
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ICE just conducted its largest ever immigration enforcement operation across Massachusetts and Mayor Wu&#39;s city of Boston, where they arrested nearly 800 illegals with criminal records.
Here are just a few of the vicious monsters the heroes of ICE nabbed: 👇
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The streets of Boston and the surrounding area are safer today thanks to the men and women of ICE.
Mayor Wu&#39;s disgusting demonization of ICE agents is part of the reason why they&#39;re seeing a massive uptick in doxing, assaults and death threats.
She should be ashamed of herself.
&mdash; Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) <a href="https://twitter.com/RapidResponse47/status/1930630873159757925?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 5, 2025</a></blockquote>
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A member of the United Front Work Department, an intelligence division of the Chinese Communist Party, served as co-chairman of a group that <a href="https://abc3340.com/news/nation-world/fundraiser-behind-boston-mayor-wus-2021-campaign-has-ties-to-ccp">helped raise</a> $300,000 for Wu’s 2021 mayoral campaign. Gary Yu, the co-chairman of the New England Chinese American Alliance, is listed under a different name vis-à-vis the United Front Work Department.
After saying he would go to Boston, “bringing hell with me” after the Boston police commissioner said he would not aid ICE in finding illegal immigrants, border czar Tom Homan was accused of lying about the city by Wu in March. Homan reported that he had made good on his promise and led a team that reportedly found 370 illegal aliens in Boston and surrounding areas, with a majority being significant criminals.
On February 16, Democrat-appointed Boston Police Commissioner Michael Cox <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/boston-police-commissioner-doubles-down-ice-resistance-we-dont-enforce-detainers">echoed</a> Wu, who had promised resistance to the deportations enforced by the Trump administration. Cox said Boston police officers “don’t have authority to enforce federal immigration law.” When asked if his perspective countered federal immigration law, Cox said the Boston Police Department has pretty defined rules and abides by state law.
Speaking at CPAC on February 22, Homan said he would go to Boston while quoting Kurt Russell as Wyatt Earp in the classic Western film “Tombstone”:
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I read a story last night, the police commissioner of Boston, you said you’d double down on not helping the law enforcement officers of ICE. I’m coming to Boston. I’m bringing hell with me. I looked at the numbers this morning; I stopped counting at nine. Nine child rapists that were in jail in Massachusetts, but rather than honoring an ICE detainer, released them back into the street. You’re not a police commissioner; take that badge off your chest, put it in the desk drawer. You became a politician. You forgot what it’s like to be a cop. And guess what? The men and women of Immigration and Custom Enforcement, they found those predators, and they’re locked back up, and we’re going to deport them from the United States.
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Michelle Wu

‘Sickening’: DHS Rips Dem Boston Mayor’s Seeming Comparison Of ICE Agents To Neo-Nazis

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Trump border czar Tom Homan taunted Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) on Tuesday over her threatening &#8220;consequences&#8221; if her Democrat colleagues were punished for a scuffle at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention facility in Newark, New Jersey.
During a Fox News appearance on &#8220;The Ingraham Angle,&#8221; Homan referenced Ocasio-Cortez&#8217;s warning, which happened before federal prosecutors charged Rep. LaMonica McIver (D-NJ) in connection with the incident.
&#8220;Remember, just a couple weeks ago, AOC went on social media saying if we put a finger on any of her co-workers — Congresspeople that were at our Newark facility, there would be consequences. Well, guess what? We did it. I&#8217;m waiting on the consequences,&#8221; Homan <a href="https://x.com/theblaze/status/1927518497086611616" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>.
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Tom Homan: “Remember a couple weeks ago AOC said if we put a finger on Congress people from the Newark facility, there would be consequences? Well, guess what? We did it. I&#8217;m waiting on the consequences.”
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In a live stream, Ocasio-Cortez defended her colleagues, including McIver, who clashed with Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officials during what they claim was lawful oversight of the ICE facility.
&#8220;If anyone is breaking the law in this situation, it’s not members of Congress, it’s the Department of Homeland Security. It’s people like Tom Homan and Secretary Kristi Noem,&#8221; Ocasio-Cortez <a href="https://x.com/libsoftiktok/status/1922338757392396473" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. &#8220;You lay a finger on someone — on &#8230; any of the representatives that were there. You lay a finger on them, we&#8217;re going to have a problem.&#8221;
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In the days that followed, federal prosecutors <a href="https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/new-jersey-rep-mciver-released-on-recognizance-after-court-appearance-for-immigrant-detention-skirmish" target="_blank" rel="noopener">charged</a> McIver with two counts of assaulting, resisting, and impeding officers while allegedly trying to stop the arrest of Newark Mayor Ras Baraka. Each charge <a href="https://www.nj.com/essex/2025/05/nj-congresswoman-faces-16-years-in-prison-for-assault-charges-in-ice-detention-center-clash.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reportedly</a> carries a penalty of up to eight years in prison. McIver claims the charges are &#8220;purely political&#8221; and &#8220;mischaracterize and distort&#8221; her actions.
Homan and Ocasio-Cortez have gone back and forth at each other for years. After Ocasio-Cortez dared Homan in a recent town hall to refer her to the Department of Justice for “using her free speech rights” to advise illegal immigrants on how to avoid law enforcement, the border czar <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/aoc-dared-tom-homan-to-come-after-her-for-helping-illegals-heres-his-response" target="_blank" rel="noopener">quipped</a> on Fox News, &#8220;I take pleasure I can live in her mind rent-free every day.&#8221;

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WASHINGTON—Border Czar Tom Homan is celebrating the passage of President Donald Trump’s “Big, Beautiful” reconciliation bill, arguing in an interview with The Daily Wire that the bill is pivotal to protecting the southern border and empowering border authorities to do their jobs.
“We’ve made a lot of progress on the border, but we want to keep it permanent,” he told The Daily Wire outside the White House Wednesday, ahead of the bill&#8217;s passage. “We need the money, not just for the border, but interior enforcement operations. Money for the border is gonna help continue building the border wall. Every place the border barrier&#8217;s been built, illegal immigration went down, illegal drug flow went down, so we gotta put more border wall up.”
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The Republican-led House passed the bill in a 215 to 214 vote early Thursday morning, a significant victory for the president after back-to-back, all-night sessions in the Rules Committee and on the House floor.
The Trump administration has emphasized the massive role that the bill would play in securing the border. As he spoke with The Daily Wire on Wednesday, Homan broke down the specifics of how the bill would assist in guarding the United States from illegal entries.
There’s also technology in the existing border wall that must be implemented, Homan argued. Particularly in areas where there is not a wall, or authorities are unable to build a wall, the border czar said it is important to have the technology to “let us know when someone’s crossing the border.”
“We need the technology added to the wall so border patrol agents can communicate to one another in dead areas. It&#8217;s gonna let us know when people approach the wall, climb over the wall, dig under the wall. We need that technology. So wall and technology plus technology where there&#8217;s not a wall, right?”
“Also, technology at the ports of entry,” he added. “So trade can continue at a fast pace, but we have best technology, find drugs and other contraband coming through the ports.”
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement also needs money, Homan pointed out.
“ICE is in the hole right now,” he explained. “They&#8217;ve got about 50,000 people in beds. We&#8217;re funded for 34,000. ICE is already in the hole, so if we want to continue this massive deportation operation, we need more money.”
He also touted the Trump administration’s success on the border thus far.
“We&#8217;re doing great. Right now, the criminals arrested by ICE are about three times higher than Joe Biden under the same timeframe, but it should be 10 times higher because Joe Biden wasn’t doing anything. So we need more money to do more.”
“People are asking, they don&#8217;t think there&#8217;s enough deportations, not enough ICE arrests,” he continued. “I agree with &#8217;em. I&#8217;m pushing for more arrests. We need money to do it. We need more money for boots on the ground. More money for detention beds. We should have at least a hundred thousand beds.”
“We need more for transportation contracts. We need more money for contractors to do jobs that don&#8217;t require a badge and gun. A badge and gun shouldn&#8217;t be doing administrative work. We need &#8217;em on the street wrestling bad guys. So we need money for all those things.”
Homan repeatedly emphasized that securing the border should be a bipartisan issue, noting that &#8220;there are a handful of Democrats that believe in border security and national security.&#8221;
&#8220;But as a party, you’re never gonna get every vote from every Democrat,&#8221; he noted. &#8220;&#8216;Cause I think a lot of &#8217;em put politics over public safety plus politics over national security.”
“I think there&#8217;s a political firestorm right now,” he explained. “I don&#8217;t think Democrats are ever gonna agree. Our success shows their failure. Our success shows the lies of the last administration saying the border is secure, showing they&#8217;re vetting everybody, and all the lies they told we&#8217;re proving &#8217;em wrong.”
“We&#8217;re proving &#8217;em wrong by arresting people that they released, they said were vetted. We find out they have significant criminal histories. We&#8217;re arresting national security threats every week that they said didn&#8217;t exist, and we truly secured the border. So I think our success shows their failure and they don’t wanna show that,” Homan shared.
Homan pointed out to The Daily Wire that he’s been involved with border security since 1984.
“I’ve worked for six different presidents. I&#8217;ve seen hundreds of policies come and go. I know what works, what doesn&#8217;t. What we&#8217;re doing right now is working. It&#8217;s a game changer.”
“There’s people who don&#8217;t want [us] to succeed,” he emphasized. “There’s members of Congress truly that don&#8217;t want President Trump to succeed, and I find that shocking as an American, as a taxpayer, as someone who&#8217;s dedicated 40 years to doing this, it&#8217;s shocking that every member of Congress, regardless of political opinion, why would you not want the President of the United States to succeed in securing the border and removing public safety threats and national security threats from this country?”
“Give us some money to deal with it, prove that you&#8217;re really representing your constituents,” he concluded. “Prove that you actually care about the safety and security of this country. Love your community more than you hate President Trump.”

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Explosive new allegations about who really ran the country during Joe Biden’s presidency are shaking up Washington. Border czar Tom Homan gives us a sneak peek into his deportation plans and how ICE will handle hostile sanctuary cities. And, the Supreme Court hands a big win to an elected official in Maine who was speaking out about the state’s transgender policies.
It’s Thursday, May 22, and this is the news you need to know to start your day.
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<h2>Biden&#8217;s Inner Circle &amp; Cognitive Decline Cover-Up</h2>
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Topline: As new details continue to emerge regarding the White House cover-up of former President Biden’s decline while in office, the legacy media is facing new pressure for its role in the scandal.
The slow drip of stories on Biden’s decline has turned into a waterfall. On Tuesday, the authors of the new bombshell book &#8220;Original Sin&#8221; – CNN’s Jake Tapper and Axios’ Alex Thompson – revealed the existence of what they called a “politburo” of longtime advisors who were, if not making the decisions for President Biden, heavily influencing his decisions: Mike Donilon, Steve Burschetti, Ron Klain and Bruce Reed.
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We’ve also learned that during the 2024 campaign, Biden’s team spent millions of dollars organizing a staged town hall event, with hand-picked attendees asking friendly, pre-written questions. The plan was for clips of that orchestrated event to be used in TV ads. But according to reporting in the new book, the 90-minute event was a disaster, with Biden unable to string together coherent answers. As one staffer put it, “the man could not speak.” It was so bad that the campaign never aired any footage, blaming poor lighting instead of the president’s mental capabilities. That story and countless others have drawn outrage from folks asking just how many people were involved in concealing Biden’s cognitive decline.
Much of that outrage has been directed at the former president’s inner circle, but people are also asking questions about the media’s role. For years, many of the country’s most prominent outlets and news anchors parroted White House talking points that President Biden was totally fit for office and locked in behind closed doors. For example, just to pick a name out of the hat, in a 2020 interview with Lara Trump, Tapper himself was <a href="https://x.com/LaraLeaTrump/status/1806420367415914571">so incensed</a> by claims that then-candidate Biden was showing signs of cognitive decline that he ended the interview early. Tapper has since admitted that conservatives were right all along for questioning Biden’s mental fitness.
But plenty of people don’t buy the excuse that the legacy media were totally in the dark about Biden’s mental and physical decline and believe journalists are only changing their tune now because they’re trying to save their credibility.
“Now that Joe Biden has no power anymore and can&#8217;t hurt them, now that he is a cancer-ridden old senile man, they are lining up to kick him,” author and journalist Batya Ungar-Sargon told The Daily Wire. “Acting like somehow they deserve credit for speaking truth to power now that he no longer has any more power.&#8221;
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<h2>Tom Homan Tells Morning Wire His Plan To Ramp Up Deportations</h2>
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Topline: Border czar Tom Homan called for the passage of the Trump budget bill that the House <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/house-passes-one-big-beautiful-bill-in-massive-win-for-trump?topStoryPosition=undefined&amp;author=Daniel+Chaitin&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=1&amp;row=1&amp;rowHeadline=Top+Stories&amp;rowType=Top+Stories&amp;title=House+Passes+%E2%80%98One+Big%2C+Beautiful+Bill%E2%80%99+In+Massive+Win+For+Trump">passed</a> on Thursday morning, which he says is crucial to carrying out the president’s immigration agenda.
Daily Wire White House Correspondent Mary Margaret Olohan spoke with Homan on Wednesday.  He made a case for why ICE needs more money to continue to secure the border, increase deportations, and clean up sanctuary cities.
“We&#8217;ve made a lot of progress on the border, but we want to keep it permanent,” Homan told The Daily Wire. “We need the money, not just for the border, but interior enforcement operations… ICE is in the hole right now. They got about 50,000 people in beds. We&#8217;re funded for 34,000. Ice is already in the hole, so if we want to continue this massive deportation operation, we need more money.”
Homan said that if Congress authorizes the spending, ICE will prioritize getting more teams on the streets and more bed space for detainees, as well as more frequent flights to remove illegal aliens from the United States more quickly.
“There&#8217;s no downside on a secure border and there&#8217;s no downside in less trafficking of women and children. There&#8217;s no downside in less fentanyl, there&#8217;s no downside in less people on terrorist watch list coming across, there&#8217;s no downside in taking billions of dollars away from the cartels. There&#8217;s no downside in removing public safety threats and national security threats from this country. We should all be on the same page. So step up, get this done. Give us the money we need so we can keep President Trump&#8217;s promise to American people alive.” 
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<h2>Supreme Court Sides With Maine Republican, Restores Voting Rights</h2>
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Topline:  The U.S. Supreme Court has sided with a Maine Republican after Democrats punished her for drawing attention to controversial transgender policies in the state.
Maine state Rep. Laurel Libby was censured by Democrats back in February in a party-line vote over a post she published on Facebook that highlighted a male athlete winning a state championship in the girls’ high school pole vault competition. In Maine, males who identify as transgender are allowed to participate in female sports – which, according to all polling, is not a policy supported by the American people, even in a liberal state like Maine.
“The Democrat majority in the Maine House voted to censure me and at the same time to strip my constituents of their voice and their vote,” Libby told The Daily Wire. “Following that, the censure vote is when Speaker Ryan Fecto declared that until I apologize, I would not be allowed to speak or vote on the floor.”
Libby refused to take down her Facebook post and would not apologize. For that, she’s been stripped of her right to vote and speak on the House floor for months. Libby told The Daily Wire she knew &#8220;immediately&#8221; that she had to take legal action to challenge her punishment. She lost at the district and appeals court levels, before she appealed to the Supreme Court in April. The court sided with Libby and ruled 7-2 that she can vote while her legal battle is playing out. There were only two dissents, from liberal justices Ketanji Brown Jackson and Sonia Sotomayor. 
The Trump administration is still fighting the state’s Democratic Gov. Janet Mills over her decision to defy President Donald Trump&#8217;s executive order barring males from girls&#8217; spaces and sports. The feds have frozen federal funding for the state, and last month, Attorney General Pam Bondi <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/bondi-unleashes-on-maine-announces-new-lawsuit-against-state-for-violating-title-ix">announced a civil lawsuit</a> against Maine’s Department of Education. 
There have <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/janet-mills-and-her-family-are-getting-rich-off-the-maine-governors-transgender-battle?author=Amanda+Prestigiacomo+and+Mary+Margaret+Olohan&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=0&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Janet+Mills+And+Her+Family+Get+Rich+Off+The+Maine+Governor%E2%80%99s+Transgender+Stance">also been questions raised</a> about the network of transgender groups surrounding Mills and her family. The governor’s sister, Dora Anne Mills, is the chief health improvement officer at MaineHealth. That health system was a <a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/officeholders/janet-t-mills/contributors?cycle=2022&amp;id=9941379">top donor</a> to Mills’ 2022 gubernatorial run and offers irreversible “procedures” for gender-confused minors, such as puberty blockers, and what they call “gender affirming hormone therapy,” and “menstrual suppression.”

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Earlier this week, far-Left Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) threatened Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem and border czar Tom Homan over their commitment to enforce laws related to illegal immigration, specifically a recent incident concerning New Jersey Democrats at an ICE detention center.
As reported by <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hes-not-very-smart-homan-responds-to-newark-mayor-arrested-for-storming-ice-facility?author=Amanda+Prestigiacomo&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=5&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=‘He’s+Not+Very+Smart’%3A+Homan+Responds+To+Newark+Mayor+Arrested+For+‘Storming’+ICE+Facility" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Daily Wire</a>, a number of Democrats rushed the Delaney Hall ICE detention facility after gates were opened to allow a bus of apparent illegal immigrants into the facility. <a href="https://nypost.com/2025/05/12/us-news/feds-weigh-assault-charges-for-pols-who-protested-nj-ice-center/?utm_source=chatgpt.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">According</a> to DHS, the feds are considering charges against the Democrats involved.
“If anyone’s breaking the law in this situation, it’s not members of Congress, it’s the Department of Homeland Security,” AOC claimed in a <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/DJfpuCXsK6p/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">video</a> posted to Instagram on Sunday. “It’s people like Tom Homan and Secretary Kristi Noem.”
“You lay a finger on someone, on Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman &#8230; or any of the representatives that were there &#8212; you lay a finger on them, we are going to have a problem,” AOC threatened. “Because the people who are breaking the law are the people not abiding by it.”
Responding to AOC&#8217;s remarks, Homan told the congresswoman that she should do her job.
&#8220;I wish she&#8217;d do her job,&#8221; he <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-border-czar-fires-back-aoc-over-doj-probe-remarks-why-doesnt-she-pass-some-legislation" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> Fox News earlier this week. &#8220;She&#8217;s a legislator, right? Why doesn’t she pass some legislation … and actually improve this country like President Donald Trump is already doing?&#8221;
&#8220;She should try doing her job,&#8221; Homan added.
On CNN airwaves, the border czar had another message for the Democrat: she should be thanking DHS for keeping her constituents safe.
“First of all, you can‘t intimidate me. Come on, give me a break,&#8221; he said. &#8220;You know, and as far as New York, her district, this administration has done more to protect her district than she has. The number of criminal aliens we took off the streets of New York made her community much safer.”
“She ought to be thanking the members of this administration, the men and women of ICE, who protect this country and make her community safer,” Homan added.
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“This admin has done more to protect her district than she has. The number of criminal aliens we took off the streets in NYC made her community safer… She ought to love her community more than she hates Trump.” <a href="https://t.co/y8blAnlgqM">pic.twitter.com/y8blAnlgqM</a>
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Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hes-not-very-smart-homan-responds-to-newark-mayor-arrested-for-storming-ice-facility?author=Amanda+Prestigiacomo&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=5&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=‘He’s+Not+Very+Smart’%3A+Homan+Responds+To+Newark+Mayor+Arrested+For+‘Storming’+ICE+Facility" target="_blank" rel="noopener">‘He’s Not Very Smart’: Homan Responds To Newark Mayor Arrested For ‘Storming’ ICE Facility</a>

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Trump administration Border Czar Tom Homan on Saturday ripped Democrat Newark Mayor Ras Baraka for claiming he was supporting the rule of law when he trespassed at the Delaney Hall ICE detention facility.
Baraka was arrested and briefly detained on Friday for &#8220;storming&#8221; the facility, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/newark-mayor-arrested-after-dem-reps-storm-new-jersey-ice-facility-charge-past-security-officers" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Daily Wire</a> reported. The mayor and two other Democrats reportedly rushed into the center after gates were opened to allow a bus of apparent illegal criminals into the facility.
&#8220;We ask them to obey our laws, to obey the policies, the rules here, in the city and the state of New Jersey, not to run roughshod over the Constitution of the United States, the Bill of Rights, the 4th, 5th, the 14th Amendment, that everybody on this soil deserves due process,&#8221; Mayor Baraka said to the press on Friday.
&#8220;Well look, he&#8217;s not very smart,&#8221; Homan <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/video/6372630115112" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reacted</a> on Fox News. &#8220;The bottom line is, that is what this facility is all about. This facility is about due process. This facility is where we put illegal aliens &#8230; this is where due process happens. We have to detain them to go through the due process of, sometimes seeing a judge,&#8221; or other processes, like sending them back to their country.
Homan went on to criticize the Democrats for rushing the facility and putting safety and security at risk for the public, illegal immigrants, and others. &#8220;You don&#8217;t make an unauthorized entry while they&#8217;re moving a bus of criminals into the facility,&#8221; he said.
The border czar said people don&#8217;t have to support ICE, but they can&#8217;t &#8220;cross that line.&#8221;
&#8220;You can&#8217;t cross that line of impediment, you can&#8217;t cross that line of knowingly harboring, concealing illegal aliens, and you certainly can&#8217;t trespass in a facility that&#8217;s contracted by the U.S. government to house criminals,&#8221; he said. &#8220;That&#8217;d be like breaking into a prison, not going through the proper protocols. This creates a huge safety crisis.&#8221;
&#8220;This is about politics&#8221; for those Democrats, Homan continued. &#8220;They simply don&#8217;t want these people removed from this country. They don&#8217;t want immigration enforcement in this country.&#8221;
As highlighted by The Daily Wire, Baraka is currently campaigning to be New Jersey’s next governor and has been protesting the ICE facility since it opened.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/newark-mayor-arrested-after-dem-reps-storm-new-jersey-ice-facility-charge-past-security-officers" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Newark Mayor Arrested After Dem Reps ‘Storm’ New Jersey ICE Facility, Charge Past Security Officers</a>

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Trump administration border czar Tom Homan responded to far-Left Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), after she dared Homan to come after her for helping illegal immigrants evade law enforcement.
AOC, during a town hall on Friday, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/shame-shame-shame-all-hell-breaks-loose-at-aoc-town-hall?author=Amanda+Prestigiacomo&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=2&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=‘Shame%21+Shame%21+Shame%21’%3A+All+Hell+Breaks+Loose+At+AOC+Town+Hall" target="_blank" rel="noopener">challenged</a> Homan to refer her to the Department of Justice for “using her free speech rights” to advise illegal immigrants on <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/aoc-admits-she-was-openly-advising-illegals-on-how-to-avoid-law-enforcement" target="_blank" rel="noopener">how to avoid law enforcement</a>, saying, &#8220;Come for me.&#8221;
&#8220;I take pleasure I can live in her mind rent-free every day,&#8221; Homan said on Fox News on Tuesday night, responding to the lawmaker.
&#8220;We all know exactly what she&#8217;s doing,&#8221; the border czar continued. &#8220;She&#8217;s educating the worst of the worst on how to evade law enforcement, but the tables have now turned: she&#8217;s educating people how to get prosecuted.&#8221;
&#8220;It&#8217;s a crime to take steps to not comply with ICE (Department of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement) removal orders, or not comply with ICE actions to take you into custody,&#8221; Homan said. &#8220;You can&#8217;t hinder your own removal that was ordered by the federal judge.&#8221;
&#8220;I would like AOC to read Title 8, USC 1253, because it&#8217;s starting tomorrow,&#8221; he added.
WATCH:
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Tom Homan reacts LIVE to AOC challenging him to come after her for educating illegals on how to evade ICE 🔥
&#8220;I take pleasure I can live in her mind rent free everyday. We all know exactly what she&#8217;s doing. She&#8217;s educating the worst of the worst on how to evade law enforcement.… <a href="https://t.co/euO8wWAEJ4">pic.twitter.com/euO8wWAEJ4</a>
— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) <a href="https://twitter.com/charliekirk11/status/1919908234103861617?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 7, 2025</a></blockquote>
During an interview with NPR in March, AOC said, “I was informing all of my constituents of their constitutional protections and, in particular, their constitutional protections against illegal search and seizure in the United States.&#8221;
Ocasio-Cortez then seemed to concede that she was advising illegals on how to continue violating America’s laws when asked by NPR. “I was giving advice to all of my constituents, yeah,” AOC responded.
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/AOC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@AOC</a> is challenging <a href="https://twitter.com/RealTomHoman?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RealTomHoman</a> to “come get her” for helping illegals avoid deportations.
Be careful what you wish for, sweetie. <a href="https://t.co/3dtH730lRK">pic.twitter.com/3dtH730lRK</a>
— Spitfire (@DogRightGirl) <a href="https://twitter.com/DogRightGirl/status/1918470924262592808?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 3, 2025</a></blockquote>
AOC and Homan sparred last year, when Ocasio-Cortez suggested that illegally entering the United States was not a law violation.
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America,
Watch your new Border Czar, Tom Homan, absolutely destroy AOC with nothing but facts 🔥🔥🔥
We are in good hands. <a href="https://t.co/2t7qggNCfq">pic.twitter.com/2t7qggNCfq</a>
— TONY™ (@TONYxTWO) <a href="https://twitter.com/TONYxTWO/status/1855834723651928335?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 11, 2024</a></blockquote>
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/shame-shame-shame-all-hell-breaks-loose-at-aoc-town-hall?author=Amanda+Prestigiacomo&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=2&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=‘Shame%21+Shame%21+Shame%21’%3A+All+Hell+Breaks+Loose+At+AOC+Town+Hall" target="_blank" rel="noopener">‘Shame! Shame! Shame!’: All Hell Breaks Loose At AOC Town Hall</a>

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AOC Dared Tom Homan To Come After Her For Helping Illegals. Here’s His Response.

AOC Challenged Tom Homan To ‘Come Get Me' For Helping Illegals. Here’s His Response.

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Border Czar Tom Homan announced that the Trump administration’s immigration team would triple the workforce in sanctuary cities, vowing, “We’re gonna flood the zone with officers.”
After teenaged illegal immigrants belonging to &#8220;Los Diablos de 42,” described as a “farm team&#8221; of the Venezuelan Tren de Aragu gang, <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/nypd-officers-attacked-teenage-gang-times-square/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">attacked NYPD officers</a> on Friday in Times Square, New York Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch <a href="https://www.fox5ny.com/news/tren-de-aragua-gang-violence-times-square" target="_blank" rel="noopener">acknowledged</a> that NYPD is coordinating with federal agencies, but added, &#8220;The NYPD does not engage in civil immigration issues—period.&#8221;
Homan slammed Tisch, saying to Fox News’ Laura Ingraham, “These people are in the country illegally, and the first thing the police commissioner did up there  — she’s ordered an internal affairs investigation. Did someone call ICE? Because we happened to be at the precinct where some of these people were being processed by happenstance, but now all of a sudden there’s an internal affairs investigation.”
“Who called ICE? We just proved to the city commissioner, we proved to the city council, that wants to lock us out of Rikers Island, that working with Mayor Adams &#8230; we indicted 27 members of TdA through a RICO investigation. &#8230; These are people who are murder-for-hire, drug traffickings, sex trafficking, gun trafficking. We took 27 TdA off the street. ICE, with the cooperation of the NYPD, we showed what our partnership can do.”
In mid-April, the New York City Council <a href="https://council.nyc.gov/news/2025/04/15/new-york-city-council-files-lawsuit-to-stop-mayor-adams-illegal-executive-order-inviting-president-trumps-ice-into-rikers-to-set-up-office-seeking-courts-immediate-halt-of/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">filed a lawsuit</a> asking for a temporary restraining order (TRO) and a preliminary injunction against Mayor Eric Adams’ <a href="https://www.nyc.gov/assets/home/downloads/pdf/executive-orders/2025/eo-50.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Executive Order 50</a> to invite ICE to operate an office in the Rikers Island jail.
“They’re already pulling back now,” Homan continued. “So the commissioner is more concerned with who called ICE rather than working with ICE to get these people not out of the street, (but) out of the country. &#8230; This is just another example of sanctuary cities not cooperating with ICE and look what happened: NYPD officers are attacked. If you&#8217;re brazen enough to attack an armed law enforcement officer, you&#8217;re much more dangerous to an unarmed civilian.”
Asked by Ingraham what his message was for three illegal immigrants “still on the loose,” Homan replied, “We’re comin’ for ‘em.” He continued, “These are the type of people that AOC brags, ‘Why I’m educating people on their constitutional rights.’ We all know what she’s doing. She’s educating criminals now to evade law enforcement.”
“Well, you know, I’m gonna do a little educating myself: You don’t want to open the door; you don’t want to answer a question; you don’t want to help us with the travel documents that get you removed, that’s a violation of Title VIII, United States Code 1253. It’s a crime. And we’re going to start prosecuting those crimes tomorrow.”
“If you got a final order, and you want to hinder your removal, you want to put roadblocks up and not cooperate, you want to hide and not open the door, then the agency is gonna start prosecuting you criminally,” he warned. “Then, after you get out of jail from that prosecution, then we deport you. Game’s over. We’re gonna look for these public safety threats and we’re gonna take ‘em off the streets in New York and every other sanctuary city. As a matter of fact, every sanctuary city, we’re gonna triple the workforce. We’re gonna flood the zone with officers. If we can’t arrest them in the jail, we’re gonna arrest them in the community. If we can’t arrest them in the community, we’ll arrest them at their worksite.”
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Tom Homan Joins White House Press Briefing

Border Czar Homan: ‘We’re Gonna Triple The Workforce’ In Sanctuary Cities

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Tren De Aragua

When it comes to immigration, President Trump has been absolutely stalwart.
He&#8217;s actually handled immigration so well that it dropped out of the top four or five issues for Americans. It was the number one or number two issue in every poll for Americans during the 2024 election cycle.
Trump was inaugurated and on the same day, everything started to get fixed because he said, we&#8217;re going to enforce the border, don&#8217;t come here.
People stopped coming.
On Monday, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt announced:
<blockquote>Later this afternoon, President Trump will sign an executive order on law and order and another executive order on sanctuary cities. The first EO will strengthen and unleash America&#8217;s law enforcement to pursue criminals and protect innocent citizens. The second EO is centered around protecting American communities from criminal aliens, and it will direct the Attorney General and Secretary of Homeland Security to publish a list of state and local jurisdictions that obstruct the enforcement of federal immigration laws.</blockquote>
All of that is quite good. He signed three executive orders, including one that instructed Attorney General Pam Bondi and the Secretary of Homeland Security, Kristi Noem, to pursue all necessary legal remedies and enforcement measures against so-called sanctuary cities.
Here&#8217;s the deal: Local law enforcement cannot be militarized by the federal government under the Posse Comitatus Act to actually enforce federal law. That is not permissible.
However, obstruction of justice, which has been happening in these sanctuary cities, where ICE goes in and you have local law enforcement actively obstructing the effort, declaring they are sanctuary cities and going out of their way to thwart federal law, that is something that the federal government should be cracking down on.
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Another one of these executive orders “aims to bolster legal resources to police officers accused of wrongdoing, and the third seeks to enforce existing laws requiring professional truck drivers to be proficient in English,” according to <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/04/28/us/trump-news">The New York Times</a>.
President Trump has also been unleashing ICE to go after illegal immigration wherever they find it in significant numbers.
On Monday, <a href="https://edition.cnn.com/2025/04/28/us/colorado-springs-raid-monday/index.html">CNN</a> reported:
<blockquote>US federal agents early Sunday raided what authorities described as an underground nightclub in Colorado Springs and took into custody more than 100 migrants accused of being in the country illegally, the US Drug Enforcement Administration said.</blockquote>
Jonathan Pullen, the special agent in charge, said, “What was happening inside was significant drug trafficking, prostitution, crimes of violence. We seized a number of guns in there.”
The raid had been planned for months, according to Pullen. “During the surveillance, investigators documented drug trafficking, prostitution and the presence of people suspected to be members of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua, the international gang MS-13, and the Hells Angels, Pullen said,” CNN added.
This was a very large raid. Attorney General Pam Bondi, in describing the nature of the raid, explained that 170 calls to 911 had been made over the last several years. “Wouldn&#8217;t you think that would&#8217;ve been a red flag? Nothing happened. Guns, shootings, [aggravated] batteries, nothing happened,&#8221; she told <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/pam-bondi-offers-new-details-colorado-nightclub-raid-wisconsin-judge-aided-illegal-immigrant" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fox News</a>.
Their work on immigration is the upside of the Trump administration. They&#8217;ve been doing an excellent job, even though courts have been attempting to hamstring them pretty much every step of the way. The Trump administration has been completely thorough. They are doing a good job on all of this, and they&#8217;re being very aggressive in their public-facing about it as well.
According to <a href="https://www.axios.com/2025/04/28/trump-posters-white-house-arrested-immigrants" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Axios</a>, “Trump administration officials late Sunday began placing dozens of posters of arrested unauthorized immigrants along the White House driveway. The posters — which read &#8220;ARRESTED&#8221; — specify various crimes linked to the pictured immigrants and have the White House&#8217;s official logo at the bottom.”
These posters were designed to reiterate that the goal here is to deport criminal illegal immigrants.
Immigration is still President Trump&#8217;s most popular issue.
It should be.

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