Trump border czar threatens NJ Gov. Murphy over claims he took in migrant

Border czar Tom Homan threatened to instrumentality ineligible against New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy amid claims he’s sheltering a migrant successful his home, marking the latest escalation successful Republicans’ feud with Democrats implicit President Trump’s migration crackdown.

“I deliberation the politician is beauteous foolish saying what helium said due to the fact that I’ve gotten a clasp of it. We won’t fto it go. We’ll look into it,” Homan said during an quality connected Fox News. “Then, if he’s knowingly harboring and concealing an amerciable alien, that’s a usurpation of Title 8, United States Code 1324. I volition question prosecution oregon the caput volition question prosecution.”

He added: “Maybe he’s bluffing. If he’s not, we’ll woody with that.”

Homan, antecedently Trump’s acting caput of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, is successful complaint of “the Southern Border, the Northern Border, each Maritime, and Aviation Security” arsenic good arsenic “all Deportation of Illegal Aliens backmost to their Country of Origin,” according to Trump’s November announcement.

His comments connected Monday travel successful effect to those made by Murphy implicit the play during a forum astir however his medication could propulsion backmost against Trump.

Border czar Tom Homan speaks to the media portion visiting the US-Mexico borderline with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth successful Sunland Park, N.M., Monday, Feb. 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton)

“I don’t privation to get into excessively overmuch detail, but there’s someone successful our broader universe whose migration presumption is not yet astatine the constituent that they are trying to get it to,” Murphy said. “We said ‘You cognize what? Let’s person her unrecorded astatine our location supra our garage, and bully luck to the feds trying to travel successful and get her.’”

Mahen Gunaratna, a spokesperson for the second-term Democrat, clarified his remarks connected Tuesday, saying Murphy only discussed offering up the invitation, but ne'er really extended it to the idiosyncratic successful question.

The Garden State politician astatine the clip was simply recalling a speech helium had with archetypal woman Tammy Murphy regarding the migration presumption of immoderate they knew, who is successful the state legally, Gunaratna said of the remarks.

Upon taking office, Trump has signed a bid of migration orders and actions, aimed astatine bolstering borderline information and fulfilling his run committedness of wide deportations. They besides see efforts to end birthright citizenship, suspend the nation’s asylum strategy and deploy troops to the border.

With News Wire Services