Trump Border Czar: States That Don’t ‘Cooperate’ With Deportations Will See Funding Cut

Donald Trump’s incoming “border czar” Tom Homan says the administration will revoke federal funding for states that refuse to “cooperate” with the administration’s plans to conduct mass deportations. 

In a Sunday interview with Fox News’ Mark Levin, Homan said that “those mayors and those governors who say they’re going to stop ICE from doing their job, stop me from doing this job,” would face the retribution of the federal government. 

“If you have a governor who says I am not going to cooperate, I’m going to block you … federal funds should be slashed to that state,” Levin asked in a hypothetical to Homan. 

“That’s going to happen. President Trump will do that,” Homan replied. 

“President Trump has made it clear, we’re going to prioritize public safety threats and national security threats right out of the gate because they pose the most danger to this country. What governor or mayor doesn’t want public safety threats and national security threats out of their neighborhoods, out of their communities? That’s their number one responsibility,” he added. 

Homan was one of Trump’s first picks for his incoming administration. He previously served as acting director of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) under Trump’s first administration. His new position would not need Senate confirmation, and gives Homan wide latitude to oversee Trump’s plans to round up and deport millions of undocumented migrants and a topline priority of his second term. 

As director of ICE’s deportation operations under Former President Barack Obama, Homan broke record for removals, and began shaping the outline of what would become his most infamous policy to date: the forced separation of undocumented children and their parents while in ICE detention. 

Last month, when asked if he would institute family separation under a second Trump administration, Homan offered a solution: “Families can be deported together.”