ICE won’t ‘raid’ jobs for illegal immigrants in DC for the first few days: Tom Homan

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EXCLUSIVE – President-elect Donald Trump’s incoming border czar, Tom Homan, denied a media report that said the transition team plans to conduct workplace raids targeting illegal immigrants in Washington, DC, in the days after the inauguration.

In a phone call with Washington examiner on Thursday, Homan said no such plans had been discussed or talked about and that he would be privy to that information, given his role overseeing all immigration and border-related policy implementations.

“I can tell you we don’t have any plans on that. I talked to the upcoming team. Nobody knows anything about this,” Homan said when asked about an NBC News report that a “high-profile raid” was allegedly planned for the first days of Trump’s second term.

The Trump administration plans to deport criminal illegal immigrants and anyone an immigration judge has already ordered removed from the country, a total of one million to 2 million people. Under the Biden administration, the Department of Homeland Security began prioritizing people with serious criminal convictions as opposed to focusing on employers who have illegal immigrants on the books.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement, a DHS agency, employs 7,000 officers who carry out 250,000 deportations a year, according to the agency. If the Trump administration wanted to quadruple that number, as Trump has promised, training academies would likely be unable to handle a deluge of new hires.

Trump nominated Gov. Kristi Noem (R-SD) to serve as DHS secretary in his second administration a week after he won the election.

He also announced immigration hawks Stephen Miller and Homan for key roles in the White House to carry out the deportation of illegal immigrants and conduct border policy. Miller will be Trump’s deputy director of policy. Unlike Noem, Miller and Homan do not need to be confirmed by the Senate.

Homan told Washington examiner in mid-December that there would be “a lot of security arrests” in addition to the aforementioned — meaning that illegal immigrant children and family members living with criminals would also be swept up and deported.

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“In sanctuary cities, you can expect a lot of security arrests,” Homan said. “I mean, not priority criminal arrests. We can’t put the bad guy in jail. That means we have to go into the communities and find them, and there may be others. We expect a lot of security arrests.”

Trump’s transition team, DHS, ICE and Washington, DC Mayor Muriel Bowser did not respond to requests for comment.