'Go Ahead And Watch': Tom Homan Promises Major Crackdown On Illegal Immigration In Chicago

Speaking to reporters outside the Oval Office on Monday, Border Czar Tom Homan discussed a crackdown on illegal immigration in Chicago, Illinois.

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00:00Can you talk about what these two operations in Boston and Chicago mean in practice?

00:06Does it mean a surge in ICE agents on the ground?

00:11Does it mean that National Guard troops are moving in?

00:15How does this change the operation on the ground?

00:17National Guard, they're always on the table, right?

00:20But right now it's a surge of law enforcement officers.

00:24And look, the president was clear on that two months ago.

00:27We said it's going to prioritize enforcement in sanctuary cities, and we talked about that before.

00:31Why?

00:32Because we know we have a problem in sanctuary cities.

00:34We know for a fact they're releasing illegal aliens, public safety threats, every day.

00:39So, like I said before, we don't have that problem in Florida, right, where every sheriff and chief works with us.

00:43So where are we going to send additional assets?

00:46Sanctuary cities where we know it's a problem.

00:49And despite what Mayor Wu says, I got the data to back it up.

00:54We know how many criminal animals are being released there.

00:55Look at the number of child predators we're wrestling, not just in Boston, but outlying communities in Massachusetts.

01:04I mean, I spoke at the CPAC conference when I said it.

01:06I just got done breeding a total of nine child predators released to the streets.

01:11So, you know, we have the data.

01:13They are a sanctuary city.

01:14That state's a sanctuary state.

01:16I know Governor Healy made a statement of why am I so infatuated with Massachusetts.

01:21I'm infatuated with every sanctuary city.

01:23We're going to send resources there.

01:25We're going to, if they don't want to help us to get out of the way, we'll make your city safer.

01:28But today, President Trump said he's waiting for a call from Chicago.

01:31Does that mean he's waiting for local leaders to call him before sending in National Guard troops?

01:37They've had plenty of chances to call.

01:40We're going to go ahead and do operations in Sanctuary City.

01:42I think the president's referring to it.

01:44I'm not familiar with that.

01:45But I think he wants to talk about what more can we do to make us more efficient and more meaningful.

01:51But, again, if they don't want to come to the table and work with us, we're going to do it anyway.

01:55If they want to sit there and watch us make their city safer, then go ahead and watch.

01:58The operation you're talking about right now is about immigration.

02:01The operation we're talking about right now is immigration, but we're still prioritizing public safety threats and national security threats.

02:09But I've made this clear from the beginning.

02:10In Sanctuary City, if we can't get the bad guy into jail because they've released him to the street, we're going to go to the street.

02:16We're going to find him.

02:17If he's with others, may not be a criminal threat, but they're illegal in the United States, they're coming too.

02:22I've made that clear for months.