Sanctuary Jurisdictions Must Comply Or Face More ICE Boots On The Ground: Homan
by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),
Sanctuary jurisdictions in the United States will see more Immigrati
What the Documents Show
Homan is characterizing his threatened deployment as compulsory retaliation, not inevitable resource allocation. The trigger for Homan's ultimatum is specific: New York Governor Kathy Hochul's proposed Local Cops, Local Crimes Act, which would bar state and local police from signing or maintaining Section 287(g) agreements with ICE. These agreements—authorized under federal law—permit ICE to delegate immigration enforcement functions to local officers, including the detention of suspected undocumented immigrants. Hochul's bill would void all existing Section 287(g) agreements in New York. According to Homan's account, he personally briefed Hochul on what he framed as the consequences of refusing cooperation.
Follow the Money
"I said, Look, you end cooperation in the jails, we're going to have to send more agents to do the job," Homan told the Daily Signal. Hochul, Homan claims, proceeded anyway. What's striking about Homan's framing is the conflation of two distinct scenarios. He argues that ending jail-based cooperation forces ICE to deploy "a whole team, six or seven agents" into communities to apprehend individuals, rather than managing arrests within the controlled environment of detention facilities. This is presented as an inevitable operational reality—safer for agents, safer for detainees, safer for communities. But his repeated vow to send "more agents" in response to non-cooperation reveals the underlying threat: comply with federal immigration enforcement desires, or face more federal boots on the , full stop.
What Else We Know
Hochul's office declined to bend. According to Homan's own account, she was "totally briefed" and "decided to go ahead and do it anyways." This matters because it establishes that New York's leadership made a conscious choice about what it considers appropriate cooperation with ICE, eyes wide open to Homan's warnings. The other sanctuary jurisdictions now have a clear signal: refuse ICE cooperation agreements, and the federal government will treat you as non-compliant, justifying expanded federal enforcement operations within your borders. Homan's threat to deploy teams of agents as punishment for local policy choices establishes a new operating principle: federal immigration enforcement personnel as a coercive tool against state and local governments that prioritize different policing priorities. --- THE TAKE What I find striking is that Homan has essentially admitted the federal government uses expanded ICE deployments as a punishment mechanism for political defiance, not as a purely operational response to enforcement gaps. This reveals a critical pattern: the weaponization of federal law enforcement to override local democratic choices.
Primary Sources
- Source: ZeroHedge
- Category: Government Secrets
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