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BumRushDaShow

(172,302 posts)
Thu May 7, 2026, 10:48 AM May 7

Trump's border czar threatens to flood New York with ICE: 'More agents than you've ever seen before'

Source: The Independent

Thursday 07 May 2026 08:59 EDT


Tom Homan, President Donald Trump’s border czar, has doubled down on his threat to flood New York City with ICE agents as part of the administration’s illegal immigration crackdown. Guesting on Fox News’s The Ingraham Angle with Laura Ingraham Wednesday, Homan was shown a clip of New York Gov. Kathy Hochul saying Trump had promised her there would be no surge of federal forces into the Big Apple unless she asked for it, adding: “I’m not asking.”

Invited to respond, Homan chuckled and answered: “Well Governor Hochul, I’m not asking either. I said it. We’re going to do it.”. Homan complained that Hochul had attempted to put a number of legislative roadblocks in his way, which he said would slow the capture of undocumented migrants suspected of engaging in additional criminal activity who might pose a threat to U.S. citizens.

“She wants to end the partnerships we currently have, which means now we have to send a whole team to look for a criminal that we could have arrested in the safety and security of a jail, which is safer for the officers, safer for the alien, certainly safer for the community,” Homan said. “So you’re forcing us into the neighborhoods to find this person, since we lost the efficiency of the jails, that you want to lock us out of. Now we’ve got to send whole teams out there to find this person so of course we’re going to increase manpower, a lot.

“And not only that – she says she wants to protect migrant communities. Really? Because now we arrest an illegal alien, we can’t rent a bed from any of the sheriffs in New York state so what’re we going to do? We’re going to fly them to Texas, Arizona, to one of our detention facilities there, away from their families, away from their attorneys. “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.”

Read more: https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/tom-homan-ice-new-york-immigration-b2972223.html



They are flailing and this Bovino knock-off needs to be locked up.
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Trump's border czar threatens to flood New York with ICE: 'More agents than you've ever seen before' (Original Post) BumRushDaShow May 7 OP
Bring it motherfucker. Ray Bruns May 7 #1
They seemed surprised by the resistance they met in Chicago and Minneapolis. tanyev May 7 #4
Why would you think NYC is tougher on this than Chicago and Minneapolis? Prairie Gates May 7 #6
Uhhhhhhh... GenThePerservering May 7 #17
Start anytime Prairie Gates May 7 #19
Seriously! Drum May 7 #13
Tom Homan, humaniod target dave99 May 7 #2
ICE never goes into dangerous areas. travelingthrulife May 8 #20
I may be a pacifist, but would I cry if someone slapped him "silly" (and by that, I don't mean hlthe2b May 7 #3
If I was gonna lay a bet on who will win this fight.... ashredux May 7 #5
Democratic state senator Pat Fahy told Politico Wednesday that the border czar's threats were only making lawmakers mor riversedge May 7 #7
Mr. Potato Head... GiqueCee May 7 #8
Mr Potato Head GenThePerservering May 7 #18
Being a NYer from birth though I don't live there anymore, I'm sure the people of NY will accept it AZLD4Candidate May 7 #9
When the people rise and ICE is laying in the street, broken, BidenRocks May 7 #10
I'll be following their activity in the Russian neighborhoods. bluedigger May 7 #11
Won't end well -- Minniapolis times ten North Coast Lawyer May 7 #12
MANY men down dave99 May 8 #22
In many cases, these "agents" are rubes who proudly avoid cities, ESPECIALLY New York. Drum May 7 #14
This guy takes bribes in paper bags Blues Heron May 7 #15
...the agency was also hiring quickly, with 2,500 new attorneys to prosecute cases in immigration court, 11,000 deportat riversedge May 7 #16
Quick.... Look over there! Sowhat13 May 8 #21
NYC - 8 million people GenThePerservering May 8 #23
Don't these fools realize what they are doing to our tax base?? travelingthrulife May 9 #24

tanyev

(49,688 posts)
4. They seemed surprised by the resistance they met in Chicago and Minneapolis.
Thu May 7, 2026, 11:13 AM
May 7

They think they can waltz into NYC?

Prairie Gates

(8,479 posts)
19. Start anytime
Thu May 7, 2026, 10:24 PM
May 7

you're ready to say something that wouldn't be considered loopy by anyone west of the Hudson and east of Rancho Cucamonga.

Drum

(10,767 posts)
13. Seriously!
Thu May 7, 2026, 01:58 PM
May 7

Don’t take bets on all of them making it outta this city…they’d sure better travel in groups.

dave99

(272 posts)
2. Tom Homan, humaniod target
Thu May 7, 2026, 11:04 AM
May 7

"Well there are certain sections of New York, Major, that I wouldn't advise you to try to invade."
- Rick, from CASABLANCA

hlthe2b

(114,697 posts)
3. I may be a pacifist, but would I cry if someone slapped him "silly" (and by that, I don't mean
Thu May 7, 2026, 11:07 AM
May 7

a "gentle, genteel slap..." He definitely more than deserves it. No real harm, natch, but damn, smack the grotesque, condescending, smirk off that ugly face.

ashredux

(2,960 posts)
5. If I was gonna lay a bet on who will win this fight....
Thu May 7, 2026, 12:39 PM
May 7

I bet on New York. I’m not sure the New York cops will be glad to see a bunch of ICE assholes

riversedge

(81,552 posts)
7. Democratic state senator Pat Fahy told Politico Wednesday that the border czar's threats were only making lawmakers mor
Thu May 7, 2026, 12:55 PM
May 7




........As Homan alluded to on Fox, the legislation in question would limit to extent to which New York police departments can cooperate with federal immigration authorities and direct where civil deportation warrants can and cannot be executed.

Hochul has also pushed for an agreement with state lawmakers on blocking ICE agents from covering their faces and empowering citizens to sue the agency if they believe their constitutional rights have been violated.


The governor’s moves are part of an effort to try to prevent a repeat of the chaos seen in Minnesota in January, when the adverse reaction to Operation Metro Surge sparked widespread unrest and saw two demonstrators shot dead.

Democratic state senator Pat Fahy told Politico Wednesday that the border czar’s threats were only making lawmakers more resolved to pass the bills in question. “If anything, it makes me want to double down,” he said.

“We have to show that when you have people who are out on the streets like a reign of terror, armed masked agents wreaking havoc, we have to show it will not be tolerated.”


https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/tom-homan-ice-new-york-immigration-b2972223.html

GiqueCee

(4,746 posts)
8. Mr. Potato Head...
Thu May 7, 2026, 12:56 PM
May 7

... is used to people cowering and complying with his belligerent demands. Governor Hochul has essentially told him to stuff it. He is a malicious pig who has to be dealt with accordingly.

AZLD4Candidate

(6,964 posts)
9. Being a NYer from birth though I don't live there anymore, I'm sure the people of NY will accept it
Thu May 7, 2026, 01:11 PM
May 7

like a human body accepts the wrong blood type.

BidenRocks

(3,498 posts)
10. When the people rise and ICE is laying in the street, broken,
Thu May 7, 2026, 01:15 PM
May 7

the age of chump will be over.
The rest will run from fear of reprisals!

Independence Day 2026!

Freedom From Chump!

bluedigger

(17,450 posts)
11. I'll be following their activity in the Russian neighborhoods.
Thu May 7, 2026, 01:31 PM
May 7

Or as I suspect, their inactivity.

Drum

(10,767 posts)
14. In many cases, these "agents" are rubes who proudly avoid cities, ESPECIALLY New York.
Thu May 7, 2026, 02:02 PM
May 7

They’ll likely be scared to death of all of this.

riversedge

(81,552 posts)
16. ...the agency was also hiring quickly, with 2,500 new attorneys to prosecute cases in immigration court, 11,000 deportat
Thu May 7, 2026, 03:28 PM
May 7



Border czar promises 'mass deportations are coming' to fulfill Trump's promises
May 7, 20265:00 AM ET


Ximena Bustillo



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Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons, who is retiring by the end of the month, said the agency was also hiring quickly, with 2,500 new attorneys to prosecute cases in immigration court, 11,000 deportation officers and 3,500 special agents.............

https://www.npr.org/2026/05/07/g-s1-120580/trump-border-czar-mass-deportations

Sowhat13

(41 posts)
21. Quick.... Look over there!
Fri May 8, 2026, 01:40 AM
May 8

The War, Epstein, Tariffs, Health Insurance costs, and gas prices were starting
to overwelm MAGA's conditioning. Quick, fire up rightwing militia theater to
distract the MAGA, before they turn on their Masters.......

GenThePerservering

(3,717 posts)
23. NYC - 8 million people
Fri May 8, 2026, 10:50 PM
May 8

a deep tradition of immigration and 300+ years of practice. I just hope when these yokels in their face coverings and tacti-cool equipment come hauling in mob-handed on a hot July day in the middle of a sticky heat wave, the New Yorkers can keep peaceful and strong - taking a page from Minn, or it'll be helter-skelter in the summer swelter as the old song has it. OTOH, if that guy in the white cowboy hat from the LA video comes waddling in, they may just be prostrated with laughter.

travelingthrulife

(5,580 posts)
24. Don't these fools realize what they are doing to our tax base??
Sat May 9, 2026, 10:12 AM
May 9

I know they don't care about people but they usually care about their pocketbooks.

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