(The Center Square) – Former Trump administration official Tom Homan had a blunt response for Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson’s vow to keep local police from cooperating with federal immigration enforcement: “Good luck.”
Homan, who served as the Trump administration’s border czar, said the federal government plans to ramp up immigration enforcement and emphasized the scale of the challenge.
“For those that say 3,000 [arrests] a day is too much, do the math,” Homan said. “We’d need to arrest 7,000 every single day for the rest of this administration just to catch the ones [former President Joe] Biden released into the country.”
The recently passed “One Big Beautiful Bill” dedicates $170 billion to border security, including $45 billion for detention centers and $30 billion for increased ICE personnel and transportation.
At a press conference Tuesday, Mayor Johnson firmly stated that the Chicago Police Department will not cooperate with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
“Our local police department will not ever cooperate with ICE,” Johnson said, adding that Chicago will instead work with other sanctuary cities to navigate what he described as a hostile federal approach.
“To the extent in which we’re going to have to rely upon one another, other cities and states coming together, to find the best way in which we can interact with a federal government that is quite hostile towards states and cities,” Johnson said.
Homan responded during an appearance on Fox Business, warning that sanctuary cities that keep ICE out of jails will see increased street-level enforcement.
“What you’re going to get, sanctuary cities, is exactly what you don’t want — more agents in your communities and more collateral arrests,” he said. “That’s what we’re going to do. We’re doubling down, tripling down. So to those who say they’re going to keep ICE out of their city, good luck with that.”
Currently, Chicago, Cook County, and the state of Illinois are named in a lawsuit filed by the U.S. Department of Justice over policies that prevent local law enforcement from working with federal immigration authorities.
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