{"id":44010,"date":"2025-11-18T20:17:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T20:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/44010\/"},"modified":"2025-11-18T20:17:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T20:17:10","slug":"nyc-reps-vow-to-push-back-on-trump-border-czar-tom-homans-threat-to-step-up-ice-raids-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/44010\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC reps vow to push back on Trump border czar Tom Homan\u2019s threat to step up ICE raids here"},"content":{"rendered":"

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President Trump\u2019s border czar, Tom Homan (r.), with New York City Mayor Eric Adams during a Fox News interview in February 2025.<\/p>\n

Photo by John Lamparski\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

Tom Homan, President Trump\u2019s border czar, said on Tuesday that he will be ramping up ICE\u2019s<\/a> operations in New York \u201csoon\u201d beyond the courtroom hallways of 26 Federal Plaza.<\/a><\/p>\n

Homan made the ominous statement during a Nov. 18 appearance on Fox News, during which he said that he himself would be coming to the Big Apple in the \u201cnear future.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

\u201cI plan on being in New York City in the near future. We are going to do operations in New York City,\u201d Homan said. \u201cWe will be coming to New York City; we are already there now, but we will increase the enforcement presence in New York City again because they are a sanctuary city, and we know that we have an issue there.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Trump administration has long opposed New York City\u2019s sanctuary status because it limits local agency cooperation with federal immigration enforcement efforts.\n<\/p>\n

This comes on the heels of last month\u2019s ICE raid along Canal Street in Chinatown<\/a> that saw a slew of vendors arrested<\/a> along with four American citizens<\/a> who were cuffed by federal agents as a spontaneous protest erupted over the detainments.<\/p>\n

Residents have also reported an increased sightings of masked men, presumably ICE agents, dragging people off the street<\/a> and shoving them into unmarked vehicles.<\/p>\n

Mamdani team pushes back on Homan\u2019s ICE threat
\n\"\"<\/a>ICE detains a street vendor along Canal StreetPhoto by Dean Moses<\/p>\n

A spokesperson for Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani stated that the incoming administration will do everything in its power to protect those it will soon serve.<\/p>\n

\u201cNew York City\u2019s more than three million immigrants are central to our city\u2019s strength, vitality, and success. The Mayor-elect remains steadfast in his commitment to protecting the rights and dignity of every single New Yorker and upholding our sanctuary laws,\u201d Dora Pekec, Mamdani\u2019s spokesperson, said.<\/p>\n

Outgoing Mayor Eric Adams\u2019 office did not immediately respond to amNewYork\u2019s request for comment. Adams and Homan have met<\/a> multiple times since President Trump\u2019s re-election last year<\/a> to discuss ways the city government could cooperate with the federal government on stopping illegal immigration.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, other New York elected officials vowed not to be intimidated by Homan or the Trump administration.\n<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s just a continuation of absolutely draconian immigration enforcement from this federal administration. We won\u2019t be intimidated. We have a responsibility more than ever to protect New Yorkers from threats like this from the federal government,\u201d Senator Julia Salazar told amNewYork.<\/p>\n

City Comptroller Brad Lander also spoke to amNewYork, adding that people can aid layers of protections against ICE by placing \u201cemployee only\u201d signs on doors at places of work, something that will force the Feds to obtain warrants in order to enter portions of the premises. Still, he also echoed Salazar\u2019s comments, adding that locals will not be intimidated either.<\/p>\n

\u201cNew Yorkers are not going to allow Tom Homan and his brown shirted ICE agents to occupy our city with impunity,\u201d said the outgoing comptroller. \u201cWe\u2019re not going to let them violate the rule of law, abduct our neighbors without judicial warrants, without identifying themselves, while wearing masks without due process, grabbing people into cars, taking parents while their kids are in school. We\u2019re not going to let that happen. And you can see New Yorkers rising up in that way all over the place. Those folks on Canal Street just knew it was wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Congressman Dan Goldman said that four of the people arrested during the Canal Street ICE raid on Tuesday were American Citizens, and they were held at 26 Federal Plaza overnight.Photo by Dean Moses<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"President Trump\u2019s border czar, Tom Homan (r.), with New York City Mayor Eric Adams during a Fox News…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":44011,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[8069,25311,2035,9,24,63,134,136,135,11877,1069,82],"class_list":["post-44010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-staten-island","tag-brad-lander","tag-feds","tag-ice","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-staten-island","tag-staten-island-headlines","tag-staten-island-news","tag-tom-homan","tag-trump","tag-zohran-mamdani"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44010\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}