President Trump’s border czar, Tom Homan, brushed aside socialist New York City mayoral hopeful Zohran Mamdani’s commitment to defying Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) if he wins the election in November.
“Good luck on that,” Homan told reporters at the White House Monday.
“We’re going to be in New York City, and President Trump said it two weeks ago, we’re going to double down, triple down on sanctuary cities.
“Why? Not because [they’re a] blue city or blue state, because we know that’s where the problem is,” he went on. “They’re releasing public safety threats and national security threats to the streets every day because they don’t honor our [requests they be] detained.”
Mamdani, who won the Democratic primary last month in an upset over former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, has called ICE a “rogue agency.”
“We have to stand up and fight back,” Mamdani told NBC’s “Meet the Press” June 29. “We saw ICE agents arrest a migrant at Federal Plaza, and then we saw NYPD officers arresting a pastor who was peacefully observing that arrest.”
“Those days are going to come to an end when I’m the mayor.”
Earlier this month, Trump threatened to arrest Mamdani if he attempted to block ICE operations.
“[Trump’s] statements don’t just represent an attack on our democracy but an attempt to send a message to every New Yorker who refuses to hide in the shadows: If you speak up, they will come for you,” Mamdani shot back. “We will not accept this intimidation.”
Incumbent Mayor Eric Adams has been cooperative with the Trump administration on key immigration issues, something Mamdani has used against Hizzoner.
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But Homan warned Monday that ICE will persevere no matter who is in Gracie Mansion.
“I’ve said it before, we’ll flood the zone with sanctuary cities. If they don’t let us arrest a bad guy in the county jail, they’re going to arrest them in the community, we’re going to arrest them at a work site,” he said.
“So we’re going to increase community operations, we’re going to increase work enforcement operations. We’re going to get the bad guys, so if they don’t want to help, get out of the way, we’re coming to do it.”
The Post reached out to Mamdani’s campaign for comment.
