Trump Border Czar Tom Homan Vows to Flood New York with ICE Agents Despite Hochul Resistance

Trump administration border czar Tom Homan warned New York Gov. Kathy Hochul that he will flood the state with Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers despite her efforts to block federal operations.

Homan appeared on The Ingraham Angle to counter Hochul's statement that federal agents are not welcome in New York without her permission and that she is not requesting assistance. "Well, Governor Hochul, I'm not asking either. I said it. We're going to do it," Homan said Wednesday. "We're going to flood the zone in New York — we have to," he added.

The dispute started after Homan pledged more ICE agents to the state at the Border Security Expo in Arizona this week. He reacted to Hochul's proposed Local Cops, Local Crimes Act, which would prevent local police from aiding federal immigration officers and cancel current partnerships.

"All I'll say to Mr. Homan is that Donald Trump himself said he would not send a surge of ICE agents to the state of New York unless I ask," Hochul said Tuesday. "I'm not asking."

Homan refused to yield. "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," he said.

He claimed New York's move to end cooperation endangers public safety by complicating arrests of criminal illegal immigrants. "Since we lost the efficiencies of the jails that you want to lock us out of, now we got to send a whole team out there to find this person. So, of course, we're going to increase manpower — a lot," Homan said.

Hochul described her opposition as a response to dangerous federal overreach. In announcing the bill, she stated: "Over the last year federal immigration agents have carried out unspeakable acts of violence against Americans under the guise of public safety. These abuses — and the weaponization of local police officers for civil immigration enforcement — will not stand in New York."