Incoming Border Czar Tom Homan has warned that he will double manpower in “sanctuary cities” that interfere and push back against the Trump administration’s deportation operation.
Homan discussed his plans on Friday’s episode of Fox News Channel’s “Hannity.”
One of the big problems in the current immigration system, Homan explained, is that many agents are stuck performing administrative duties.
To solve the problem, Homan said he intends to contract out as much work as possible to perform tasks that don’t require law enforcement officials.
“[M]y plan is, and I’ve been very vocal about this, we’re going to contract as much work out as we can, work that doesn’t require a badge and a gun, because I need badges and guns on the street to do the deportation operation,” Homan explained.
“So, when it comes to driving a bus, transportation, whether it’s ground or air, whether it’s processing, whether it’s other administrative duties, contract that work out, because right now, we’ve got badges and guns doing that work,” he continued. “Get them out of that administrative work, put more on the street, and that’s what we’re going to do.”
Homan warned that “if these sanctuary states and cities keep pushing back, I’ll have the extra resources to double manpower in those sanctuary cities. Because if we can’t arrest the bad guy in the jail with one agent, it means I’ve got to send a whole team out into the field to find this person, and, for officer safety reasons, we need a whole team, rather than just one person.”
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