Homan joined “The Ingraham Angle<\/a>” to respond to Hochul\u2019s claim that federal agents aren\u2019t welcome in her state without permission and that she is not asking for help.<\/p>\n “Well, Governor Hochul, I\u2019m not asking either. I said it. We\u2019re going to do it,” Homan said Wednesday.<\/p>\n “We’re going to flood the zone in New York \u2014 we have to,” he added later.<\/p>\n Their feud began after Homan promised to send more ICE agents to the state at the Border Security Expo in Arizona<\/a> this week. He was responding to proposed legislation, the “Local Cops, Local Crimes Act,” which would stop local police from helping federal immigration officers and void existing partnerships.<\/p>\n TRUMP’S ‘BORDER CZAR’ WARNS DEM GOVS REJECTING TRUMP DEPORTATION PLAN: \u2018GET THE HELL OUT OF THE WAY\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n White House border czar Tom Homan delivered the keynote address at the Border Security Expo Tuesday in Phoenix. Homan said New York\u2019s efforts to limit cooperation with federal immigration authorities could lead to increased enforcement activity. (Rebecca Noble\/Bloomberg via Getty Images)<\/p>\n “All I’ll say to Mr. Homan is that Donald Trump<\/a> himself said he would not send a surge of ICE agents to the state of New York unless I ask,” Hochul said Tuesday. “I’m not asking.”<\/p>\n TRUMP ‘DRUG CZAR’ WARNS OF DEADLY ‘RHINO TRANQUILIZER’ KILLING AMERICANS AS CARTEL CRACKDOWN ESCALATES<\/a><\/p>\n But Homan said he\u2019s not going to back down, stating: “This is what we have to do because she forces this position. And we’re going to do it. They’re not going to stop us. They can put all the roadblocks they want, but we’re [going to] do this job.”<\/p>\n New York Gov. Kathy Hochul spoke during a news conference at the WIN NYC family shelter on March 5 in New York City. (Adam Gray\/Bloomberg via Getty Images)<\/p>\n He argued that New York\u2019s push to end cooperation hurts public safety by making it more difficult to arrest criminal illegal immigrants.\u00a0<\/p>\n “Since we lost the efficiencies of the jails that you want to lock us out of, now we got to send [a] whole team out there to find this person. So, of course, we’re going to increase manpower \u2014 a lot,” Homan added.<\/p>\n ICE DEPORTS ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT CONVICTED OF ATTEMPTING TO KILL NEWBORN AFTER BLUE STATE PRISON RELEASE<\/a><\/p>\n Hochul has noted her resistance is in response to what she called “dangerous federal overreach.” In proposing the bill, she said:<\/a><\/p>\n White House border czar Tom Homan attends a press conference in Minneapolis on Jan. 29. (Shannon Stapleton\/Reuters)<\/p>\n CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE FOX NEWS APP<\/a><\/p>\n “Over the last year federal immigration agents have carried out unspeakable acts of violence<\/a> against Americans under the guise of public safety. These abuses \u2013 and the weaponization of local police officers for civil immigration enforcement \u2013 will not stand in New York.”<\/p>\n![\"Tom](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/tom-homan-border-security-expo-fox-news.jpeg\")
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