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The acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement told a Fox News host the agency would increase its presence in California in response to the state's so-called sanctuary state law.
"California better hold on tight," Homan said. "They're about to see a lot more special agents, a lot more deportation officers in the state of California."
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cn...rnia-immigration-customs-ice-homan/index.html
Homan forcefully denied the accusation on "The Ingraham Angle," questioning why Congress would want any federal agency not to enforce the laws.
"I didn't think Congress was in the business of enacting laws they didn't want law enforcement to enforce. ... We enforce the laws that Congress enacted," he said, adding that the state's sanctuary law is "forcing" him to devote more enforcement resources to California.
"No one asks the FBI or DEA or ATF or local police departments not to enforce the law."
Homan said the agency is going after illegal aliens who have been arrested previously, not "choir boys."
http://insider.foxnews.com/amp/article/59880
The acting director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said politicians who run sanctuary cities should be charged with crimes.
Thomas Homan said in an interview Tuesday with Fox News Channel's Neil Cavuto that the Department of Justice needs to file charges against municipalities that don't cooperate with federal immigration authorities and deny them funding.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nbclosangeles.com/news/politics/Acting-ICE-Director-Wants-Politicians-in-Sanctuary-Cities-Charged-467905023.html?amp=y
The country's top immigration cop said Friday his agents "will have no choice" but to conduct workplace and neighborhood immigration raids in light of California's new sanctuary law.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Acting Director Thomas Homan said in a statement Friday that California Gov. Jerry Brown's (D) decision to sign the law, SB54, would "undermine public safety and hinder ICE from performing its federally mandated mission."
"ICE will have no choice but to conduct at-large arrests in local neighborhoods and at work sites, which will inevitably result in additional collateral arrests, instead of focusing on arrests at jails and prisons where transfers are safer for ICE officers and the community," Homan warned.
https://www.google.com/amp/thehill.com/latino/354307-ice-director-well-be-forced-to-conduct-workplace-raids-in-california?amp
Thomas The acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement told a Fox News host the agency would increase its presence in California in response to the state's so-called sanctuary state law.
Speaking to Neil Cavuto on Fox News on Tuesday, Thomas Homan said he couldn't believe California had voted to become a sanctuary state, calling the decision terrible and saying the state wants "to put politics ahead of public safety."
"California better hold on tight," Homan said. "They're about to see a lot more special agents, a lot more deportation officers in the state of California."
"If the politicians don't want to protect their communities," he said, "then ICE will."
http://www.cnn.com/2018/01/04/us/california-immigration-customs-ice-homan/index.html
The recent announcement by California Attorney General Xavier Becerra that he will prosecute any California employer that cooperates with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (“ICE”) in the enforcement of federal immigration law deserves a swift and hard-hitting response by federal law enforcement officials. U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions should throw the proverbial book at Becerra by having him arrested and charged, at a minimum, with conspiracy and obstruction of justice.
When then-Maricopa County, Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio stood up to the Obama Administration’s lax immigration enforcement policy, the United States Department of Justice under Attorney General Loretta Lynch’s stewardship showed no hesitancy in prosecuting him for criminal contempt charges. Arpaio was subsequently convicted and but for President Trump’s pardon, he might well be in jail today.
The shoe is now on the other foot.
https://www.google.com/amp/www.foxn...ral-who-wont-enforce-immigration-law.amp.html
Governor Jerry Brown’s decision to sign SB54 and make California a sanctuary state for illegal aliens – including those who have committed crimes – will undermine public safety and hinder ICE from performing its federally mandated mission. The governor is simply wrong when he claims otherwise.
Ultimately, SB54 helps shield removable aliens from immigration enforcement and creates another magnet for more illegal immigration, all at the expense of the safety and security of the very people it purports to protect.
Despite the severe challenges that this law creates for ICE, we remain committed to our public safety mission and we will continue to do our sworn duty to seek out dangerous criminal aliens and other immigration violators. ICE seeks straightforward cooperation with all sheriffs and local elected officials. This misguided legislation will severely undermine those efforts.
For the full response from ICE click here:
https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/statement-ice-acting-director-tom-homan-california-sanctuary-law
California's response:
In an announcement Thursday, Attorney General Xavier Becerra warned California businesses against voluntarily supplying ICE agents with their employees' information, violating their privacy rights.
"No one - but more specifically, employers - [can] voluntarily give up ... employees' rights to privacy," Becerra said. "If you do so, you are subjecting yourselves to fines - up to $10,000 for violations."
"Ignorance of the law is no excuse if you violate it," he added. "We will prosecute those who violate the law."
https://www.google.com/amp/thehill.com/latino/369701-calif-ag-warns-businesses-not-to-share-employee-info-with-ice?amp
Law enforcement officials from Northern California said they will refuse to assist federal authorities in the upcoming sweeps that aim to capture more than 1,500 illegal immigrants, the San Francisco Chronicle reported Wednesday.
https://www.google.com/amp/www.foxn...operate-in-upcoming-ice-raids-report.amp.html
OAKLAND (CBS SF) — Just hours after the Oakland City Council voted unanimously to end any cooperation with agents from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Mayor Libby Schaaf said Wednesday she would go to jail if needed in her opposition to ICE raids.
http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/20...eral-immigration-agents-braces-for-ice-raids/
http://www.oaklandpost.org/2018/01/19/oakland-city-council-passes-kaplans-resolution-cut-ties-ice/
California’s Democratic politicians have forcefully condemned the reportedly planned raids.
“This Administration has continually put a target on the back of California,” Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) told HuffPost in a statement Wednesday, adding, “These broad brush raids will instill fear in immigrants who are terrified they will receive a midnight knock on the door and be deported or separated from their families.”
“The Trump Administration’s deeply shameful plans to conduct immigration raids in California are an act of pure malice,” House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said in a statement.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_5a5fcddce4b046f0811ccfc7/amp
“San Francisco is and will continue to be a sanctuary city,” San Francisco Acting Mayor London Breed reaffirmed. “We will not abandon our values because the federal administration makes threats against our community and our city San Francisco will come from a position of power, not panic.”
Breed also reiterated that San Francisco Police will not assist with any immigration enforcement action and the San Francisco Police Chief William Scott said that, “that has been a long standing law of the city and policy of the SFPD.”
https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/...ut-Following-ICE-Raid-Concerns-470206203.html
As Congress faces a deadline to deal with the DACA program, a story in Washington state is revealing how divisive the issue of illegal immigration is.
Democratic Gov. Jay Inslee recently learned the state’s Department of Licensing was sharing information with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). It prompted Inslee to put up his own wall to block any future cooperation and protect those in the country illegally.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/201...ver-licensing-bureau-not-to-help-ice.amp.html
California this spring will begin automatically registering adults who obtain or renew a driver’s license to vote, including potentially large numbers of noncitizens and immigrants illegally living in the state.
The only way drivers who say they are legal won’t have their information sent to state voter rolls under the latest implementation of the California Motor Voter Act is if they opt out -- which opens the door to the potential of widespread voter fraud, according to critics of the plan.
“You’re setting the state up for a disaster. They don’t seem to have a process in place to verify that people are who they say they are. It’s a free-for-all, a process that can be manipulated,” said Catherine Engelbrecht, founder of True the Vote, a national organization that unsuccessfully pressed Gov. Jerry Brown to veto the law allowing automatic voter registration.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/01/2...ens-door-to-illegal-immigrant-voting.amp.html
"California better hold on tight," Homan said. "They're about to see a lot more special agents, a lot more deportation officers in the state of California."
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cn...rnia-immigration-customs-ice-homan/index.html
Homan forcefully denied the accusation on "The Ingraham Angle," questioning why Congress would want any federal agency not to enforce the laws.
"I didn't think Congress was in the business of enacting laws they didn't want law enforcement to enforce. ... We enforce the laws that Congress enacted," he said, adding that the state's sanctuary law is "forcing" him to devote more enforcement resources to California.
"No one asks the FBI or DEA or ATF or local police departments not to enforce the law."
Homan said the agency is going after illegal aliens who have been arrested previously, not "choir boys."
http://insider.foxnews.com/amp/article/59880
The acting director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said politicians who run sanctuary cities should be charged with crimes.
Thomas Homan said in an interview Tuesday with Fox News Channel's Neil Cavuto that the Department of Justice needs to file charges against municipalities that don't cooperate with federal immigration authorities and deny them funding.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nbclosangeles.com/news/politics/Acting-ICE-Director-Wants-Politicians-in-Sanctuary-Cities-Charged-467905023.html?amp=y
The country's top immigration cop said Friday his agents "will have no choice" but to conduct workplace and neighborhood immigration raids in light of California's new sanctuary law.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Acting Director Thomas Homan said in a statement Friday that California Gov. Jerry Brown's (D) decision to sign the law, SB54, would "undermine public safety and hinder ICE from performing its federally mandated mission."
"ICE will have no choice but to conduct at-large arrests in local neighborhoods and at work sites, which will inevitably result in additional collateral arrests, instead of focusing on arrests at jails and prisons where transfers are safer for ICE officers and the community," Homan warned.
https://www.google.com/amp/thehill.com/latino/354307-ice-director-well-be-forced-to-conduct-workplace-raids-in-california?amp
Thomas The acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement told a Fox News host the agency would increase its presence in California in response to the state's so-called sanctuary state law.
Speaking to Neil Cavuto on Fox News on Tuesday, Thomas Homan said he couldn't believe California had voted to become a sanctuary state, calling the decision terrible and saying the state wants "to put politics ahead of public safety."
"California better hold on tight," Homan said. "They're about to see a lot more special agents, a lot more deportation officers in the state of California."
"If the politicians don't want to protect their communities," he said, "then ICE will."
http://www.cnn.com/2018/01/04/us/california-immigration-customs-ice-homan/index.html
The recent announcement by California Attorney General Xavier Becerra that he will prosecute any California employer that cooperates with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (“ICE”) in the enforcement of federal immigration law deserves a swift and hard-hitting response by federal law enforcement officials. U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions should throw the proverbial book at Becerra by having him arrested and charged, at a minimum, with conspiracy and obstruction of justice.
When then-Maricopa County, Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio stood up to the Obama Administration’s lax immigration enforcement policy, the United States Department of Justice under Attorney General Loretta Lynch’s stewardship showed no hesitancy in prosecuting him for criminal contempt charges. Arpaio was subsequently convicted and but for President Trump’s pardon, he might well be in jail today.
The shoe is now on the other foot.
https://www.google.com/amp/www.foxn...ral-who-wont-enforce-immigration-law.amp.html
Governor Jerry Brown’s decision to sign SB54 and make California a sanctuary state for illegal aliens – including those who have committed crimes – will undermine public safety and hinder ICE from performing its federally mandated mission. The governor is simply wrong when he claims otherwise.
Ultimately, SB54 helps shield removable aliens from immigration enforcement and creates another magnet for more illegal immigration, all at the expense of the safety and security of the very people it purports to protect.
Despite the severe challenges that this law creates for ICE, we remain committed to our public safety mission and we will continue to do our sworn duty to seek out dangerous criminal aliens and other immigration violators. ICE seeks straightforward cooperation with all sheriffs and local elected officials. This misguided legislation will severely undermine those efforts.
For the full response from ICE click here:
https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/statement-ice-acting-director-tom-homan-california-sanctuary-law
California's response:
In an announcement Thursday, Attorney General Xavier Becerra warned California businesses against voluntarily supplying ICE agents with their employees' information, violating their privacy rights.
"No one - but more specifically, employers - [can] voluntarily give up ... employees' rights to privacy," Becerra said. "If you do so, you are subjecting yourselves to fines - up to $10,000 for violations."
"Ignorance of the law is no excuse if you violate it," he added. "We will prosecute those who violate the law."
https://www.google.com/amp/thehill.com/latino/369701-calif-ag-warns-businesses-not-to-share-employee-info-with-ice?amp
Law enforcement officials from Northern California said they will refuse to assist federal authorities in the upcoming sweeps that aim to capture more than 1,500 illegal immigrants, the San Francisco Chronicle reported Wednesday.
https://www.google.com/amp/www.foxn...operate-in-upcoming-ice-raids-report.amp.html
OAKLAND (CBS SF) — Just hours after the Oakland City Council voted unanimously to end any cooperation with agents from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Mayor Libby Schaaf said Wednesday she would go to jail if needed in her opposition to ICE raids.
http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/20...eral-immigration-agents-braces-for-ice-raids/
http://www.oaklandpost.org/2018/01/19/oakland-city-council-passes-kaplans-resolution-cut-ties-ice/
California’s Democratic politicians have forcefully condemned the reportedly planned raids.
“This Administration has continually put a target on the back of California,” Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) told HuffPost in a statement Wednesday, adding, “These broad brush raids will instill fear in immigrants who are terrified they will receive a midnight knock on the door and be deported or separated from their families.”
“The Trump Administration’s deeply shameful plans to conduct immigration raids in California are an act of pure malice,” House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said in a statement.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_5a5fcddce4b046f0811ccfc7/amp
“San Francisco is and will continue to be a sanctuary city,” San Francisco Acting Mayor London Breed reaffirmed. “We will not abandon our values because the federal administration makes threats against our community and our city San Francisco will come from a position of power, not panic.”
Breed also reiterated that San Francisco Police will not assist with any immigration enforcement action and the San Francisco Police Chief William Scott said that, “that has been a long standing law of the city and policy of the SFPD.”
https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/...ut-Following-ICE-Raid-Concerns-470206203.html
As Congress faces a deadline to deal with the DACA program, a story in Washington state is revealing how divisive the issue of illegal immigration is.
Democratic Gov. Jay Inslee recently learned the state’s Department of Licensing was sharing information with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). It prompted Inslee to put up his own wall to block any future cooperation and protect those in the country illegally.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/201...ver-licensing-bureau-not-to-help-ice.amp.html
California this spring will begin automatically registering adults who obtain or renew a driver’s license to vote, including potentially large numbers of noncitizens and immigrants illegally living in the state.
The only way drivers who say they are legal won’t have their information sent to state voter rolls under the latest implementation of the California Motor Voter Act is if they opt out -- which opens the door to the potential of widespread voter fraud, according to critics of the plan.
“You’re setting the state up for a disaster. They don’t seem to have a process in place to verify that people are who they say they are. It’s a free-for-all, a process that can be manipulated,” said Catherine Engelbrecht, founder of True the Vote, a national organization that unsuccessfully pressed Gov. Jerry Brown to veto the law allowing automatic voter registration.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/01/2...ens-door-to-illegal-immigrant-voting.amp.html
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