Incoming Border Czar Tom Homan said Boston’s Democrat mayor needs to cooperate with the new Trump administration’s immigration plans or “get the hell out of the way.”
The former acting Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) director who was tapped by President-elect Trump as his new “border czar” told Newsmax on Monday that Democratic Boston Mayor Michelle Wu is not “very smart” for declaring her opposition to the incoming administration’s plans to confront illegal immigration and it’s “game on” if she wants to try.
Trump plans to make good on his campaign promises of dealing with the border crisis and the influx of migrants coming into the country illegally, declaring that they will be found and deported. Wu is not on board and took her stand in remarks in a Sunday interview with local news station WCVB.
The mayor declared that Boston, one of the so-called sanctuary cities in Massachusetts, is not “cooperating with those efforts that actually threaten the safety of everyone by causing widespread fear and having a large-scale economic impact.”
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“Well, she’s not very smart, I’ll give her that,” Homan told Newsmax host Greg Kelly. “President Trump is going to prioritize public safety threats. What mayor or governor doesn’t want public safety threats out of their communities?”
“That’s our number one responsibility; to protect their communities and that’s exactly what we’re going to do,” Homan added as he emphasized how the left has come to paint criminals as the victims.
“So either she [Wu] helps us or she gets the hell out of the way because we’re going to do it,” he continued as he dropped the facts on the mayor and others like her.
“There’s a clear line here, and they can’t cross that line. I will suggest she reads Title 8, United States Code 1324 III, which says you can’t harbor or conceal an illegal alien from federal law enforcement officers,” the former police officer and Border Patrol agent explained.
Tom Homan knows his stuff.
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“They can not cooperate, but there are certain laws in place that they can’t cross, and I hope she doesn’t cross it,” Homan added.
“I cannot believe any elected official whose number one responsibility is the safety of their communities to not help ICE remove public safety threats out of those communities,” he stated.
BREAKING: Boston Mayor Michelle Wu says she will not cooperate with deportations and will protect the illegals in her city.pic.twitter.com/GXuwJ5fqbP
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Kelly asked if he thought it was just “theatrics” by Democrats who ultimately can’t stand in the way of the law.
“Have you ever seen a local municipality try to do something that could perhaps endanger your guys or even their guys? Do they try to, you know, do they try to make this more than just a, you know, feeding their base what they want to hear?” the Newsmax host asked.
“I think it’s both,” the incoming border czar replied.
“I’ve never seen anything like this before in my lifetime,” added Homan who has worked under six presidents over three decades in law enforcement.
“I started as a cop in New York in 1984, back when cops were respected. My dad was a cop. My grandfather was a cop. Now we’re at a situation now after this recent election, that the guys who want to enforce the law, the men and women who want to enforce law now, they’re the bad guys, and those who broke the laws, they’re the victims,” he said.
“The whole world is upside down with the left. So they lost their minds,” he continued, adding “Game on” if Wu wants to endanger her community as ICE gets the job done.
