Tom Homan: ‘Damn Straight’ We’re Going to Increase the Number of ICE Agents in Chicago

KUDLOW: “I don’t — listen. Again, I’m no expert. I hear it in New York. I mean, I love to talk to cops. I’m a big supporter of the police and ICE and all the efforts that you’re making and Kristi Noem and so forth and the president. But I hear it all the time, the blue line here in New York love what you’re doing and would like to see a lot more. They’d like to see a lot more of almost everything, including, by the way, even more cops on the street, besides more ICE. Now, are you going to increase the volume of ICE agents in Chicago and these other cities?”

HOMAN: “Damn straight. We’re going to flood the zone. So, look, we don’t have that problem in Florida, where Governor DeSantis is requiring every sheriff and chief to work with us. We don’t have that problem in Texas. We have the problem in sanctuary cities, so where are we going to put majority of our resources? In sanctuary cities, because we know we have a problem. We know public safety threat, illegal aliens are released from the jails every single day, which makes it dangerous for the community, makes it dangerous for the officers, makes it dangerous for the alien because anything can happen on the street arrest. You would think they’d let us in the jail to arrest that public safety threat in the safety and security of a jail where we know weapons aren’t involved. But yeah, we’re sending a bunch of resources to sanctuary cities. And look, we’re hiring 10,000 more officers. Where are most of them going? Sanctuary cities, because that’s where the problem is. We’re going to send our firefighters to the biggest fires, and those fires are in the sanctuary cities.”

KUDLOW: “Wow, 110,000, that’s a tremendous number. That’s a wonderful number.”

HOMAN: “10,000. 10,000 new agents.”

KUDLOW: “10,000. That’s a good number too. I thought you said 110,000.”

HOMAN: “I wish. I wish.”

KUDLOW: “Well, who knows how it’s going to play out.”