Trump Border Czar Plans to ‘Flood’ Worksites in Deportation Push
US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents attend a pre-enforcement meeting in Chicago, Illinois.
Photographer: Christopher Dilts/BloombergPresident Donald Trump’s border czar, Tom Homan, said federal agents are going to pour into sanctuary cities and increase enforcement operations at places of employment as the administration looks to ramp up its deportation push.
“We’re going to flood these sanctuary cities with federal agents. If we can’t arrest a bad guy in the jail, we’re going to arrest them on the street. We got to do it stronger. We got to do it faster,” Homan said on Fox News Wednesday. “If we can’t do it in the streets, then we’re going to we’re going to increase worksite enforcement operations in those sanctuary cities. We’re going to flood worksite enforcement operations.”