President Donald Trump’s border czar, Tom Homan, took a verbal sledgehammer to New York Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul for trying to place “guardrails” around former New York City Mayor Eric Adams that made it difficult for him to cooperate with Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents when trying to clean up the streets by detaining and deporting illegal aliens. He also spent time advocating for state-level legislation from the GOP that would result in strengthened immigration enforcement.
Protesters in the city and all across the state, however, have been calling for new laws to be passed that would expand protections for illegal aliens in New York. Homan ripped apart the state’s sanctuary policies, targeting specifically the Green Light Law that allows illegal immigrants to obtain driver’s licenses and keeps federal authorities from accessing records from the Department of Motor Vehicles.
“She [Hochul] stood on TV while NYPD officers were assaulted, saying she believes criminal illegals should be deported,” Homan said during an interview on Fox News. “She said the same thing after a woman was burned alive on a subway. So yeah, she says criminal aliens should be deported, however, when Mayor Adams wants to meet with me and wants to help us arrest criminal aliens, get us back in Rikers Island, she goes down and tries to fire him.”
Homan then goes on to hammer the Green Light Law, saying, “She’s got the Green Light Law where ICE officers and CBP officers can’t DMV data. When they pull a car over, they don’t know who they are, because they can’t get DMV data because she locked them out. She says they need a warrant to get that data. If they get the warrant to get that data, what’s New York do? They notify the bad guy that we’re investigating them.”
“So I’m up here, calling her out for her sanctuary policies,” Homan finished. According to a report from The City & State New York, the Justice Department filed a lawsuit against the state and the governor over the Green Light Law. The report also revealed that Adams had met with Homan on several occasions where he agreed to help federal immigration enforcement authorities, which included bringing ICE back to Rikers Island.
At the time, the two men also made a series of media appearances discussing their partnership on the issue. During an interview on “Fox & Friends,” Homan said, “If he doesn’t come through, I’ll be back in New York City and we won’t be sitting on the couch, I’ll be in his office, up his butt, saying, ‘Where the hell is this agreement we came to?’” Adams was sitting right beside him at the time the comment was made.
A spokesperson representing Hochul, Avi Small, defended the governor’s stance on immigration, but did not address Homan’s comments concerning her decisions about Adams. “Governor Hochul has been clear with New Yorkers: she supports secure borders and deporting violent criminals, but won’t let New York help the Trump Administration tear babies away from their parents,” Small’s statement read. “This isn’t the first time Trump Administration officials have lied about our policies – and it probably won’t be the last – but Governor Hochul is staying focused on keeping New Yorkers safe.”
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