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'Trump border czar Tom Homan reveals ICE teams are already arresting
‘public safety threats’'
'Tom Homan told Fox News that an operation in Chicago was being
re-evaluated after a leak'
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'Border czar Tom Homan on Tuesday said that the mass deportation
operation has already started, as the Trump administration looks to make
good on promises to tackle the border crisis and crack down against
illegal immigration.
"No, it started [Immigration and Customs Enforcement] teams are out
there as of today," Homan said on "America’s Newsroom." "We gave them direction to prioritize public safety threats that we're looking for.
We've been working up the target list."
The administration has promised to launch a "historic" mass deportation operation, and sources told Fox News Digital that arrests were being
planned on "day one." Some media outlets reported on Friday about an
operation in Chicago, but Homan said that was re-evaluated due to the
leak of information.
"There was some discussion about Chicago because the specific
operational plan was released. So we had to look at and reevaluate,
‘Does this raise officer safety concerns?’ And it does. But we've
addressed that and teams are out there, effective today," he said.
As for who will be targeted in the operation, Homan said that the
priority are public safety threats, but he has said repeatedly that
no-one is "off the table" when it comes to arrests if they’re in the
U.S. illegally.
"Right out of the gate it’s public safety threats, those who are in the country illegally that have been convicted, arrested for serious crime,"
he said. "But let me be clear. There's not only public safety threats
that will be arrested, because in sanctuary cities, we're not allowed to
get that public safety threat in the jail, which means we got to go to
the neighborhood and find him."
Thomas Homan speaks at the National Conservative Conference in
Washington D.C., Monday, July 8, 2024.
Thomas Homan speaks at the National Conservative Conference in
Washington D.C., Monday, July 8, 2024. (DOMINIC GWINN/Middle East
Images/AFP via Getty Images)
"And when we find him, he may be with others. And unlike the last administration, we're not going to tell ICE officers not to arrest an
illegal alien. So if they find, others will be arrested. So sanctuary
cities will get exactly what they don't want, more agents in their neighborhoods and more collateral arrests," he said.
Homan spoke hours after Fox News reported on two DHS memos, including
one that rescinded a 2021 memo by then-DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas
-- which provided an expanded list of areas that are "protected areas"
where ICE could not engage in immigration enforcement. It said the
policy was designed to make sure enforcement did not limit "people’s
access to essential services or engagement in essential activities."
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Those areas include schools, universities, healthcare facilities, places
of worship, "places where children gather," social service
establishments, food banks, religious or civil ceremonies and disaster
or emergency response and relief centers.
The memo issued Monday rescinded that guidance and said that common
sense should be used instead.
"Going forward, law enforcement officers should continue to use that
discretion along with a healthy dose of common sense," the new memo
said. "It is not necessary, however, for the head of the agency to
create bright line rules regarding where our immigration laws are
permitted to be enforced
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