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(NewsNation) — President-elect Donald Trump's incoming "border czar" told NewsNation the medication volition aggressively enforce migration laws successful sanctuary cities and whitethorn question prosecution of officials who "knowingly harbor" undocumented immigrants.
"Sanctuary jurisdictions aren't going to halt what we're going to do," Tom Homan said successful a NewsNation interview Thursday. "If they don't privation to support their communities, past the Trump medication will."
Homan said migration officers would absorption connected "public information threats" and emphasized that sanctuary jurisdictions could look ineligible consequences if they actively interfere with national enforcement efforts.
"They tin basal by and ticker america bash it, but they cannot impede us," Homan said. "They cannot knowingly harbor and conceal an amerciable from ICE. Those are crimes."
He warned that forcing immigration agents to marque arrests successful communities alternatively than jails would apt effect successful much "collateral arrests" of undocumented immigrants who are not superior targets.
Regarding delicate locations specified arsenic churches and hospitals traditionally considered off-limits to migration enforcement, Homan indicated the argumentation is nether review. He said determination are already exceptions for "significant nationalist information threats" oregon nationalist information issues.
Homan dismissed sanctuary metropolis officials' claims that their policies assistance support transgression victims and witnesses, calling it "a stone-cold lie."
"The victims and witnesses of transgression surely don't privation the atrocious feline released backmost into their neighborhood," helium said.
Republican strategist Katie Frost said that fixed the situation on the U.S. confederate border, "all options request to beryllium connected the table" erstwhile it comes to enforcement.
"We person to bash immoderate is indispensable to find radical who broke our laws, came into this state illegally and person overstayed their visas, " Frost told NewsNation.
Frost pointed to the lawsuit of the pistillate who was set connected occurrence connected a New York City subway by a antheral that constabulary said entered the U.S. illegally. She said that the question that has to beryllium answered is, "When is capable beryllium enough?"
Frost said that 1 of the reasons Trump defeated Vice President Kamala Harris successful November was due to the fact that Americans are sick of however the Biden medication has handled securing the confederate border.
However, Democratic strategist David Carlucci, says that the details of however the incoming Trump medication handles wide deportations go a captious portion of the issue.
Carlucci told NewsNation that based connected what helium has heard from Homan, the "border czar" does not person a factual program for carrying retired wide deportations. Instead, Carlucci believes Homan conscionable going to effort to drawback amerciable immigrants.
He said Homan needs to specify however helium plans to transportation retired zeroing successful connected convicted criminals who entered the state illegally arsenic helium has projected erstwhile helium archetypal announced wide deportations.
Homan told NewsNation, however, that if amerciable immigrants who bash not person transgression backgrounds with those who do, they tally the hazard of being arrested arsenic well. Carlucci said that could person unsafe ramifications.
"Is this going to beryllium immoderate benignant of authorities government wherever we'll each beryllium questioned and audited for harboring amerciable immigrants?" Carlucci said. "At what ends bash we spell to? The incoming Trump medication should beryllium moving with section officials alternatively of trying to marque immoderate benignant of scapegoat."
