Trump border czar vows to hold ‘sanctuary’ states accountable

CV NEWS FEED // President-elect Donald Trump’s incoming “border czar” Tom Homan, a Catholic, vowed that he would hold accountable states that defy the new administration’s border security efforts.

“What’s happening to our southern border is the biggest national security vulnerability this country has seen since 9/11,” Homan told host Mark Levin during a Sunday FOX News appearance. “We know terrorists have crossed that border.” 

Homan singled out the notorious Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua, one of whose members murdered American nursing student Laken Riley earlier this year. 

“We have a lot of dangerous people in this country,” Homan emphasized. “We have to find and remove them.”

Later in the interview, Levin pointed out Homan’s plan to revoke federal funding from states that do not comply with the administration’s plans to deport illegal migrants who have committed crimes.

Levin pointed out that the threat of revoking federal funding a “very, very powerful weapon that the Democrats, when they’re in power, use against Republican administrations, state and local, all the time.”

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Homan confirmed that such an ultimatum is “going to happen” under the Trump administration, “I guarantee you.”

FOX noted on Monday that Trump’s and Homan’s plan to end the border crisis is “already drawing significant opposition from Democratic officials in some states.”

“The governors of Illinois, Arizona and Massachusetts have said they would not assist the administration in the operation,” FOX indicated. All three of these governors are members of the Democratic Party.

In a Monday statement to FOX, however, a group of employees of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) expressed “strong support” for Trump tapping Homan to lead his second administration’s border security efforts.

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The ICE employees stated that Homan “is one of us and knows exactly what it takes to do the job and make our communities safe.” Homan served as the acting director of ICE for a year and a half during Trump’s first term in the White House.

Also during a Sunday interview with FOX News, a high-profile Democratic lawmaker acknowledged that the border crisis – which had intensified to unprecedented levels under the Biden-Harris administration – contributed to Trump’s sweeping win earlier this month.

Sen. John Fetterman, D-PA, told hostess Gillian Turner that an issue with regard to which the Democratic Party “kind of lost ourselves was the border.”

“And I’ve been on this network, you know, months, months ago, saying, ‘Hey, you know, it can’t be controversial for our party to have pro-immigration, but we need a secure border,’” Fetterman continued:

I’ve tried to describe – you have up to 300,000 people – encounters – per month. And I put that in perspective with Pennsylvania. I’m like, that’s the size of Pittsburgh showing up in one month.

“And we can’t pretend that that’s not a significant issue,” the senator said. “And we got to address that.”