President-elect Donald Trump’s border czar delivered a “clear message” to sanctuary cities resisting the incoming administration’s stricter border policies: comply or step aside. Tom Homan, the former acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, appeared on “Sunday Morning Futures” this week to outline the administration’s proposed strategies to reduce illegal migrant-related crime and enhance safety in communities across the United States, despite opposition from liberal cities.

“You’ve got San Diego writing legislation. You’ve got Colorado and other states and other cities saying they’re going to prevent us doing what I’m doing. I want to send a clear message. If you let us in the jail, we can arrest the bad guy in the jail and in the safety and security of the jail. One officer could do that, but when you release a public safety threat back in the community, you put the community at risk. You put my officers at risk. You put the alien at risk,” he told host Maria Bartiromo.



“Here’s what’s going to happen – you release that guy in the community, I’m going to send an entire team to go look for the guy in your community. And what’s going to happen? We’ll find that guy. And when we find that guy, there’s probably going to be others that are not a priority. However, if they’re in the country illegally, they’ll be arrested, too, because we’re not going to tell an immigration officer like this [Biden] administration did, that you’re going to turn your back on an illegal immigrant. When you’re an immigration officer, you have an oath to uphold, so you are forcing us into community in large numbers where other non-priority aliens will be arrested,” Homan continued, adding: “That’s the exact result you don’t want, so let us in the jail. It’s safer for everybody.”

Another Democratic leader, New York City Mayor Eric Adams, by comparison, has shown willingness to meet with Homan to discuss strategies for making the streets of the Big Apple safer for everyone. The two are slated to meet on Thursday. Homan said on that note, “I’m not surprised that Mayor Adams is coming to the table, because I think his No. 1 responsibility is protection of his communities. I’m shocked other mayors and other governors want to put roadblocks up. I can’t believe any elected official does not want to remove public safety threats from their communities, but we’re going to do it with them or without them. We’re going to get this done.”

https://usajournal.news/2024/1...e-cities-dont-do-it/

I am looking forward to the next four years with more optimism and joy (thanks Kamala!) than any other similar period of time since Reagan. Can't wait to see governing by what is right by law and common sense versus ruling by catering to feelings and polls.

These mayors and governors are going to be bitch slapped and Stomped back into the hole they crawled out of. Pritzker, Newsom, Murphy, Holcomb etc. All Hat, No Cattle

If cities want to violate the law and due process by defending or hiding these cretin, let them do it on the state tax dime. Cut federal funds of any kind if they refuse to comply. Not one dime.

If city officials are doing this it should be obstructing justice or something similar and an arrestable offence under Fed Law.

Pick up a few councilmen, mayors, rogue cops and stick them in front of a federal judge with all the expenses associated as such and some jail time and poof "sanctuary cities" will cease to exist.

Just love all of the pre-election promises as well as the new appointees and their predictions as to what is going to happen.... My problem is whether these things will actually happen because of the powers to be fighting the implementation of said policies as well as the legal challanges raised when trying to implement these new policies. ................ drill sgt.

And local citizens ought to be raising hell! They voted for change!

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And local citizens ought to be raising hell! They voted for change!

What will the Cop do? Follow orders or follow the law?

Any cop "following orders" to block immigration officers can be arrested. I doubt many will attempt it.

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What will the Cop do? Follow orders or follow the law?

We have many present and past LEOs on the forum. I look forward to their take.

I cannot imagine any cop, even in the most bluest of States getting caught up in this. One has to remember that while there has been a slight change in the political mindset of the newer breed and they would be the ones to get involved in all this if anyone, they are not stupid.

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What will the Cop do? Follow orders or follow the law?

We have many present and past LEOs on the forum. I look forward to their take.

Me too, as well as family members. Pension threats are very real to them.
NJ forbids assisting ICE for the most part (I can't say 100%). New Jersey is not alone across the country, with treasonous government officials

Governor Phil Murphy, ALONE, declared NJ a "Sanctuary State" with no vote, only "a swipe of a pen"

New York City Mayor Adams Working to Bypass City Council on Sanctuary City Law

The mayor said he wants ’to protect the people of this city‘ and suggested that he may have ’the power to do so.’

New York City Mayor Eric Adams said he is working to bypass the New York City Council to change the city’s sanctuary city law ahead of a meeting with the incoming Trump administration’s border czar.

CBS News host Marcia Kramer asked Adams, a Democrat, about his pending meeting with President-elect Donald Trump’s border czar, Tom Homan, over illegal immigration in the city.
Adams stated that he wants criminal illegal aliens deported first, adding that he may try to bypass the City Council-passed sanctuary law, which in part bars the city’s police department from telling federal immigration officials about criminals’ immigration status.

“The City Council made it clear they don’t want to change that,” Adams told Kramer on Dec. 8, according to a transcript released by the mayor’s office. “They stated they’re not willing to change the sanctuary city law. I think they’re wrong. I have my teams looking at my power as executive orders.”

He then said that he has “to protect the people of this city” and suggested that he may have “the power to do so.”

“Prior to the election, even when I communicated to the president and his team, the current president, I stated over and over again we have to deal with the small number of violent offenders who are making their way into our country,” Adams said in the interview.

“In particular, it’s a very dangerous Venezuelan gang. It is not the overwhelming number of migrants and asylum seekers. And many of these gang members are preying on migrants and asylum seekers also.”

However, Adams said that because the City Council “made it clear” that it isn’t changing the sanctuary city law to allow cooperation with federal immigration officials, he is now going to “plan B” and looking at his options and powers as mayor.

“I told the corporation counsel, give me what are my options,” the mayor said in the Dec. 8 interview.

“As I stated almost a year ago, I want to look at those who are committing serious violent felonies in our city. And I want to know what are my powers.”

The mayor earlier this year said he wanted the city’s immigration law changed, and he reiterated his stance after Trump’s win in November. He had publicly supported the sanctuary city designation during his mayoral campaign, writing on social media platform Twitter (now X) in October 2021 that New York City would “remain a sanctuary city” if he won.

Homan and Adams are scheduled to meet in the coming days, the mayor said earlier this month.
“I want to hear the actual plan, and how are we going to operationalize the plan,” Adams told MSNBC on Dec. 5, reiterating that he wants to target illegal immigrants who have committed violent crimes in the city.

Homan, a former acting director of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, has issued multiple warnings to sanctuary cities ahead of Trump’s inauguration next month.

In November, Homan suggested that Denver Mayor Mike Johnston could face criminal charges following Johnston’s remarks to a local media outlet that he would direct police to block federal immigration officials from apprehending illegal aliens.

In multiple interviews, Homan has said that Trump wants to focus on deporting criminal illegal immigrants first but has also said that any unauthorized individual residing in the United States could face deportation.

Over the weekend, Trump told NBC News’s “Meet the Press” that he may deport families with mixed immigration statuses to avoid separating children from their parents and vowed that he will move to end birthright citizenship.

https://www.theepochtimes.com/...eyMeAHspy%2BR6sGI%3D

Threatening a local or state officer-- or an entire agency full of officers-- with possible termination from their public employment if they report possible violations of Federal laws to Federal officers is straight-up witness tampering. It's not even a close call.

If I could charge it in boring-ass white-collar cases, DOJ can certainly find a way to do it in big, systemic cases.

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Threatening a local or state officer-- or an entire agency full of officers-- with possible termination from their public employment if they report possible violations of Federal laws to Federal officers is straight-up witness tampering. It's not even a close call.

If I could charge it in boring-ass white-collar cases, DOJ can certainly find a way to do it in big, systemic cases.

Sounds good, in theory. But not in practice. The Mayor of San Diego, recently threatened his PD if they cooperated with ICE. Termination. There are hundreds just like this, here in the Good Ole USA.

We want to hear from our LEO's situations.

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1 big thing:
Immigration activists are pressuring Mayor Cherelle Parker to reaffirm and expand Philadelphia's sanctuary city policies.
Sanctuary city rally

https://www.axios.com/newslett...ladelphia&stream=top