Exclusive: Government doesn't know if any illegal aliens registered for draft, as they are required to do, during Biden surge



The Oversight Project sent a Freedom of Information request earlier this year to the U.S. Selective Service System seeking data on illegal aliens who failed to register for the draft.

Now with the responses in, it appears that the watchdog group's hypothesis — both that the SSS during former President Joe Biden's tenure made little effort to ensure that male illegal aliens ages 18-26 were registered for the draft, as required by law, and that multitudes of military-age male illegal aliens likely slipped through the cracks as a result — was right on the money.

Mike Howell, president of the Oversight Project, told Blaze News, "The fact that the Biden administration purposefully ignored having the biggest invasion of military-age males in American history fulfill their legal obligations is a massive scandal."

Background

Immigrant men ages 18-25 must register for the draft within 30 days of arriving in the country. According to the SSS, this includes parolees, illegal aliens, legal permanent residents, asylum-seekers, refugees, and all men with visas of any kind that expired more than 30 days ago. Those on current non-immigrant visas are exempt so long as their visas remain valid until they turn 26.

The Oversight Project filed a FOIA request in late January for documents pertaining to whether inadmissible and deportable aliens have been registering for the Selective Service.

The request noted that the SSS stated on its website that it does "not now, or in the past, collect or share any information which would indicate a man's immigration status, either documented or undocumented"; that it lacked the "authority to collect such information"; and that it had no use for such information "irrelevant to the registration requirement."

'Your agency would have seen unprecedented increases in registrations over the Biden administration.'

The Oversight Project appeared eager to square the agency's apparent refusal to collect data on multitudes of draft-eligible men on account of their undocumented status with the SSS' assertion that it plays a critical role in ensuring American readiness in a time of crisis and how "high registration rates across the nation serve as the foundation of fairness and equity for full operations."

The watchdog group also appeared interested in determining whether the SSS witnessed a spike in registrations during the unprecedented flood of illegal aliens into the United States during the Biden administration, noting that SSS data provided to Congress showed the agency received over 23,000 registrations in 2023 from the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services but alternatively provided no data for entities that handle illegal immigration.

"If male inadmissible aliens between 18 and 26 were registering for the Selective Service, which is usually their duty under law, then your agency would have seen unprecedented increases in registrations over the Biden administration," said the FOIA request. "The absence of such a surge indicates that there is widespread criminal noncompliance by such aliens."

FOIA answered

The SSS informed the Oversight Project that it has no records for the period beginning Jan. 20, 2021, and ending March 20, 2025, sufficient to show how many:

  • draft-eligible inadmissible aliens either registered or failed to register for the draft;
  • draft-eligible males entered the country and either registered or failed to register for the draft;
  • aliens who entered the U.S. as unaccompanied alien children that have since registered or failed to register for the draft;
  • asylum applicants have registered or failed to register for the draft;
  • aliens with final orders of removal have registered or failed to register for the draft; and
  • draft-eligible males who registered or failed to register for the draft have also received or have applications pending for immigration parole, Temporary Protected Status, deferred enforcement departure, or Deferred Action on Childhood Arrival.

The SSS revealed further that it had no registration records from U.S. Customs and Border Protection, which does not register immigrants but provides non-immigrant visa information regarding ineligible men living in the country on temporary visa status.

'Luckily, this provides an opening for the Trump administration.'

The agency also noted that it receives printed copies of completed registration records for immigrants legally entering the country via U.S. Citizenship and Immigrant Service — but that this information is entered into the Selective Service database without indications of whether the registrant is a legal immigrant or whether the records were provided by USCIS.

Relevance

The information concerning male illegal aliens' registration or failure to do so — which appears presently out of reach — is relevant for a number of reasons.

First, a knowing and purposeful failure to register on the part of an illegal alien is a felony offense under the Military Selective Service Act of 1917 and a deportable offense under the McCarran-Walter Act of 1952.

The Congressional Research Service indicated that the Department of Justice rarely pursues felony cases against those who fail to register for the draft — there were no criminal prosecutions between January 1986 and 2021. A failure to prosecute in decades past does not, however, mean that the Trump administration cannot start anew.

"Luckily, this provides an opening for the Trump administration, which is focused on removing criminal illegal aliens as a priority," Howell told Blaze News. "Now they can turn every military-age male illegal into a criminal overnight, drawing in way more government resources to support mass deportations."

Blaze News reached out to the DOJ for comment about prosecuting such offenses but did not receive a response by deadline.

Second, where relevance is concerned: Male illegal aliens who fail to register can be precluded from obtaining U.S. citizenship and are ineligible for certain federal and state employment opportunities and education benefits.

Third, the absence of an increase in registrations amid the unlawful deluge of military-age men into the U.S. during the Biden administration could serve as an indictment of elements of the previous government.

Fourth, American men might be interested to know in the event of a war necessitating the draft how many military-age foreign nationals have or have not registered to join them in risking all abroad to protect the United States and the vulnerable citizens who remain behind. Eligible citizens, like the SSS, might also have an interest in "fairness and equity" and like to know whether illegal aliens are willing to sacrifice for the nation into which they have stolen.

Willful blindness

Documents obtained by the Oversight Project revealed both an awareness behind the scenes that the SSS was failing to capture information on potential illegal alien registrants and an interest in omitting the requirement that illegal aliens register for the draft.

Craig Brown, who stepped into the role of acting director of the SSS in January 2021, appeared to confirm that the agency was consciously missing a big piece of the puzzle, noting in an April 28, 2023, email that "undocumented immigrants are by definition not giving data. We get info on every male trying to legit stay in the country."

'President Trump should fire Biden holdover Craig Brown.'

In a December 2022 email chain between Selective Service employees concerning the estimated cost of a legislative proposal that would automatically register all eligible men on their 18th birthdays, an employee then working as deputy general counsel, legislative affairs, noted, "We may want to consider omitting the requirement that undocumented immigrants register."

"President Trump should fire Biden holdover Craig Brown," said Howell. "It looks like he purposefully failed to realize that the biggest invasion of military-age males meant he should probably get them registered for the draft. That is his job, after all."

A Selective Service spokesman did not respond to a question about Brown's email but said in response to the Oversight Project's broader critique, "U.S. citizens and immigrants residing in the United States (except for those on non-immigrant visas) are required to register with the Selective Service System within 30 days of their 18th birthday. The law permits men to register up until they turn age 26."

"The agency works to raise awareness of the legal requirement to register with all men within this age range," added the spokesman.

The spokesman told Blaze News that the agency "would not speculate on outcomes" when asked whether U.S. District Court Judge Trevor Neil McFadden's ruling earlier this month enabling the Trump administration to proceed with its requirement that everyone in the country illegally must register with the federal government might result in an increase in Selective Service registrations.

The Oversight Project made clear in its FOIA request why continued apathy on this matter is unacceptable, noting:

Failure to register for Selective Service is a felony, and thus the pool of potential criminal illegal aliens is much larger than believed. Moreover, an illegal alien's failure to register for Selective Service reflects that they are not coming to America for a better life with a desire to contribute to society. At the end of the day, they seek to illegally obtain the freedoms offered by America while at the very same time violating their legal duty to defend the country. Every illegal alien who submits an absurd asylum claim, is "paroled," or "gets away" after illegal[ly] crossing the border quite literally seeks to avail themselves of American freedoms on the backs of everyday Americans who complied with their Selective Service registration requirements and if it becomes necessary would defend those freedoms with their lives.

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Oversight Project exposes Democrat-aligned NGO's 'conspiracy' to undermine immigration enforcement



Undercover footage obtained by Anthony Rubin's watchdog outfit, Muckraker, and published by the Oversight Project shows the Chinese-American Planning Council, a taxpayer-funded group based in New York City, provide training on how to prevent U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials from enforcing federal law and removing illegal aliens from the homeland.

Mike Howell, president of the Oversight Project — now a 501(c)(4) organization independent of the Heritage Foundation — told Blaze News, "This type of conduct supported by taxpayers and far left politicians transcends just policy disagreements. This is a conspiracy of individuals and organizations to thwart law enforcement."

Howell indicated that the Oversight Project has referred this matter to the Trump administration as well as to Mayor Eric Adams (D).

"We will find out if Mayor Adams is serious about being tough on illegal immigration or just talks a big game for politics," said Howell.

The leftist group

The stated purpose of the CPC, supposedly "the nation's largest Asian American social service organization," is to address "the evolving needs of Chinese American, immigrant, and low-income communities and promot[e] an inclusive environment where everyone can thrive."

The organization has enjoyed the support of various Democratic lawmakers from New York, including U.S. Sens. Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand, Reps. Dan Goldman, Grace Meng, Jerry Nadler, and Nydia Velazquez, and New York Gov. Kathy Hochul.

According to its latest financial statement, it received over $46.8 million in government grants and contracts between July 2023 and June 2024.

'We have a few ways that you can get ready.'

The leftist organization has made no secret of its opposition to the proper enforcement of American immigration laws.

The group has, for instance, condemned government policies that "target communities through raids, arrests, and separations," as well as American policies that "passively but intentionally erode existing pathways to immigration and naturalization."

In addition to providing illegal aliens with advanced warnings of ICE raids, the group has held multiple "Know Your Rights" seminars "explaining how New Yorkers can protect themselves and their communities from the overreach of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement."

The CPC scrubbed its page of evidence of a March 13 "Know Your Rights" webinar but not before Blaze News was able to capture a screenshot, below.

Rubin indicated that Rep. Goldman, who apparently requested $1 million federal taxpayer dollars for the CPC, was featured on promotional material for one of these anti-ICE events.

The footage

In the footage published by the Oversight Project, Carlyn Cowen, the chief policy and public affairs officer of the CPC, provided would-be subversives with an example of an ICE-evasion tactic used in a restaurant where she works weekends.

"What we train everybody to do is if we see ICE come to the door, we actually enter a button in our [point-of-sale] system that says 'la migra' and you click it, and then it prints a ticket to everywhere else in the restaurant so that everybody knows, right?" said Cowen. "So different kinds of protocols based on the type of organization or space."

"No matter what kind of organization or business that you're in, we have a few ways that you can get ready," said Cowen. "Number one is hardening your physical space."

'Such gross misuse of taxpayer funds by partisan activist organizations must be swiftly addressed.'

"Number two is doing a data audit and updating your data protection polices," continued the radical. "Number three, identifying a list of individuals that are authorized to respond if ICE comes to the door and then having a clear protocol. And then number four, training everybody who's going to be involved in the proper procedure and making sure they feel ready and confident to respond."

In another clip taken at the same ICE evasion seminar, a leftist social worker named Janice Northia played footage of Trump's border czar, Tom Homan, discussing the efforts by NGOs to help illegal aliens avoid deportation.

"[Homan] is very upset that the community is getting to know their rights," said Northia. "So when we see that's the message that they're giving us, it's showing, right, what it's — the fact that we're being informed is making it difficult for them to do their job."

Northia subsequently ran the audience through ways to identify and avoid ICE agents.

Blaze News reached out to the CPC for comment but did not receive a response by deadline.

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"Where are the Chinese-Americans and the Planning in this Council?" Howell quipped on X.

The Oversight Project president told Blaze News, "Opposing basic immigration enforcement policy is one thing, actually being aware of and supporting efforts taken to impede it is a whole different ballgame and one that can get into criminal territory fast."

"Why are our taxpayer dollars going to radical political organizations, which actively seek to undermine the rule of law in our country?" said Anthony Rubin of Muckraker. "Organizations such as the CPC should have no place receiving taxpayer dollars while they engage in anti-law, pro-illegal immigration activism. Such gross misuse of taxpayer funds by partisan activist organizations must be swiftly addressed."

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'You're a moron': White House dunks on Dem senator for melting down over Lara Trump fan account



Connecticut Sen. Chris Murphy (D) tried scoring political points against Vice President JD Vance on Valentine's Day. It did not go well.

Murphy centered his attack on an embarrassing error — an error that multitudes of critics and even the White House seized upon as possible evidence of an intellectual deficit on the part of the Democratic senator.

Murphy was among the Democrats, liberal pundits, and foreign dignitaries who took issue with Vance's Friday speech where the vice president criticized various European nations over their brazen suppression of free speech, political movements, and religious liberties.

The 51-year-old Democrat tweeted, "It takes some f***ing gall to have Vance lecturing Europe on 'free speech' when at the exact same time the Trump regime is threatening Democrats back home with arrest if they even explain people's rights to them."

Murphy provided a screenshot of the supposed threat — a tweet that read, "If you support Border Czar Tom Homan arresting AOC for giving illegal aliens instructions on how to avoid deportation, post a [thumbs up] in the comments. Make your voice heard."

The tweet was posted by a Lara Trump fan account, not by the president's daughter-in-law, who formerly co-chaired the Republican National Committee.

'We do, however, support your right to make such a statement.'

Murphy was widely criticized over his error, which was quickly highlighted by community notes on X.

The White House's rapid response account, which tasks itself with holding "the Fake News accountable," responded to Murphy, writing, "You are a moron, Chris. It is obvious this page is not affiliated with President Trump, his family, or to the administration."

Had Murphy checked Lara Trump's official website, he would find that it links to her proper X account.

"We do, however, support your right to make such a statement, no matter how imbecilic it makes you look," the White House account added.

Rather than admit his error or apologize, Murphy doubled down in a series of responses to the White House.

"Oh you're free speechers now?" wrote Murphy, suggesting the White House's denial of Oval Office access to the factually challenged Associated Press was evidence to the contrary. "Also don't pretend you didn't threaten AOC. you did."

'Maybe AOC is going to be in trouble now.'

In a subsequent tweet further evidencing Murphy's loose relationship with the facts, the Democratic senator claimed that the White House was "gaslighting" and that Homan "announced on live TV that he was working with the Department of Justice to explore arresting Ocasio-Cortez for telling immigrants their rights."

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y) hosted a Facebook webinar on Feb. 12 advising migrants not to open their doors when Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents come looking for them.

Contrary to Murphy's suggestion that Homan was working with the DOJ to explore arresting Ocasio-Cortez, Trump's border czar told Fox News host Laura Ingraham on Thursday that he wrote to the Department of Justice asking whether Ocasio-Cortez's webinar qualified as "impeding our law enforcement efforts."

"Maybe AOC is going to be in trouble now, but I need the AOG to opine on that, because there's an impediment — it's impediment in my opinion, I'm not a prosecutor, but we need some further guidance on that," said Homan, making no mention of possibly arresting the New York congresswoman.

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'There will be violence': Homan issues warning to cartels, tells Glenn Beck next steps



Border czar Thomas Homan minced no words when speaking to Blaze Media co-founder Glenn Beck on Wednesday, detailing what's next when it comes to the Trump administration's securement of the southern border, its removal of illegal aliens, its neutralization of cartel militants, and its response to obstructionist politicians.

Homan not only put cartels on notice, indicating that any attempt on their part at retaliation will result in their erasure from existence, but made clear — specifically calling out New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy as well as the Democratic politicians in Colorado who stood by while Tren de Aragua gangsters terrorized their cities — that there will be consequences for politicians who harbor or conceal illegal aliens.

Greasing the way out

The border czar noted at the outset that "border crossings are down almost 90% across the southern border" and that not a single one of the nearly 500 people who tried stealing into the homeland on Tuesday were successful.

Evidently impressed by the difference between the outrageously high border-crossing figures during former President Joe Biden's tenure and the figures cited by Homan, Beck asked the czar whether there was yet any indication how many illegal aliens are self-deporting.

While presently uncertain about the current number of illegal aliens seeing themselves out, Homan indicated the administration has cooked up an incentive that might help them "catch that metric."

Illegal aliens who are caught then deported face a bar on legal entry, which can last for multiple decades. Homan indicated that in the coming weeks, an announcement will go out informing illegal aliens that they will receive "credit" for reporting to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement before they self-deport or stop at a port of entry.

"If you get formally deported, there's a bar that's placed on you from five to 20 years," Homan told Beck. "We're going to have a massive push in about 10 days getting people to self-deport and send 'em home."

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Annihilation

Blaze News previously reported that the El Paso Sector Intelligence and Operations Center received information on February 1 indicating that "Mexican cartel leaders have authorized the deployment of drones equipped with explosives to be used against U.S. Border Patrol agents and U.S. military personnel currently working along the border with Mexico."

'He'll wipe them off the face of the earth.'

Online posts cited by Customs and Border Protection apparently urged the very militants whom President Donald Trump has moved to designate as terrorists to assassinate ICE agents.

Referencing both the drug cartels' recent threats as well as their potential fury over losing indirect access to American foreign aid, Beck asked Homan whether he was concerned about retaliation.

Homan noted that he was very concerned and takes the threats seriously, especially since proper border enforcement under the Trump administration has cut off multiple sources of cartel income and left them scrambling.

While acknowledging "there will be violence on the border" and "more armed encounters," Homan noted that any retaliation on the part of the cartels would constitute their final mistake.

"The Border Patrol is prepared. We get great intel on this. The U.S. military is prepared," said Homan. "If they harm a single Border Patrol agent or solider, President Trump will rain hell down on them, and I think he'll wipe them off the face of the earth."

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Accountability

Homan suggested that it was shameful for any American politician to impede the deportation of illegal aliens "because we made it clear that we're prioritizing public safety threats."

'It's a felony.'

"I find it hard to believe that any politician whether Republican, Democrat, independent, does not want public safety threats removed from their communities," Homan told Beck. "But if they don't want to help, step aside, [and] we'll do it for them."

Homan, who previously emphasized that obstructionists read Title 8, United States Code 1324, which makes it a punishable offense if one "conceals, harbors, or shields from detection, or attempts to conceal, harbor, or shield from detection" illegal aliens, told Beck that "if there is a politician that knowingly and actively impedes a federal law enforcement officer, it's a felony."

While the border czar indicated that he does not believe any one politician has "crossed that line yet," he indicated that Democratic New Jersey Gov. Murphy would have been in trouble had his recent boast been true.

Murphy, who has prohibited state and local law enforcement from aiding with deportation and immigration enforcement, suggested to a leftist activist group on Feb. 1 that he was harboring an illegal alien inside his garage, adding, "Good luck to the feds coming in to try to get her."

Murphy has since indicated he misled his fellow travelers, suggesting he was actually referring to a legal resident.

Homan noted that Attorney General Pam Bondi, who directed the Department of Justice to halt all federal funding for sanctuary cities after her swearing in on Wednesday, will "have no problem if I recommend prosecution of a politician for impeding or knowingly harboring and concealing an illegal alien."

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CNN admits Trump's deportation plans resemble those of  'deporter in chief' Barack Obama



President-elect Donald Trump has taken a great deal of abuse for proposing the deportation of millions of illegal aliens, potentially as many or even more than Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush deported while in office — 12.29 million and 10.32 million, respectively if counting both formal removals and returns. Leftists and liberal publications, including some that previously tried to blame the Republican for Obama's "cages," have characterized Trump's plan not only as unprecedented but as authoritarian, brutal, costly, fascistic, illegal, racist, and xenophobic.

CNN admitted Wednesday that Trump's supposedly unthinkable plan is not only business as usual where immigration enforcement is concerned — discounting the past four years — but reminiscent of the approach taken by an idol of the American left: former President Barack Obama.

"While Trump's allies have floated draconian measures to detain and deport people residing in the U.S. illegally, the plans are, in many ways, consistent with the way Immigration and Customs Enforcement has often carried out operations," wrote CNN's White House correspondent Priscilla Alvarez.

Not only is there a resemblance in approach, the personnel executing the plan are in some cases carryovers.

Trump's border czar nominee Tom Homan was appointed by Obama in 2013 as Immigration and Customs Enforcement's executive associate director of enforcement and removal operations. Homan did such a good job kicking criminal noncitizens out of the country that the Democratic administration gave him the Distinguished Rank Award in 2015.

'They're not doing anything new.'

"A lot of the same tactics are being dusted off," John Sandweg, who served as an acting ICE director under Obama, told CNN. "What Tom is talking about are Obama-esque things. He's going to have to do more draconian things to do a million deportations in a year."

When accounting for both removals and returns, the Migration Policy Institute indicated Obama deported over 5.2 million noncitizens between 2009 and 2016 and sent nearly one million noncitizens (973,937) packing in his first year. If strictly counting deportations through removal orders, then Obama oversaw more than any other American president up until that time — at least 2.9 million noncitizens.

While the liberal press remained more or less deferential, the Latino advocacy group National Council of La Raza (now UnidosUS), the ACLU, and other leftist groups dubbed the Democratic president the "deporter in chief."

Trump, evidently held to a different standard, has previously alluded to the efficacy of President Dwight D. Eisenhower's "Operation Wetback," where the U.S. Military helped deport up to 1.3 million illegal aliens within a few months. While CNN noted a similar operation would constitute a dramatic shift in interior enforcement by recent standards, the publication reiterated that the plan so far articulated by Trump aides, again, resembles actions taken during Obama's tenure.

For instance, Homan told Center Square last month the "priorities will focus on public safety threats, national security threats and fugitives." CNN noted that "ICE has generally been instructed to follow that protocol, including under President Joe Biden."

Although critics have pounced on Homan for telling the Washington Examiner and indicating the same in other interviews that "in sanctuary cities, expect a lot of collateral arrests," that was similarly the case during enforcement operations under previous administrations.

The use of military bases to temporarily detain illegal aliens, the return of family detention, and other elements of Trump's quickly solidifying plan were also championed, implemented, and/or expanded by past Democratic administrations.

"They're not doing anything new. None of these ideas that are being tossed about are new," Jason House, former ICE chief of staff under the Biden administration, told the liberal publication.

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'She's not very smart': Boston mayor vows to hinder deportation of illegal aliens. Homan signals it won't matter.



Boston's Democratic mayor has worked hard to depreciate the value of citizenship and degrade the quality of living in her city.

Michelle Wu, a soft-on-crime defender of race-segregated events who drafted a list of critics for police to check on, has funneled taxpayer funds to nonprofits that aid illegal aliens; advocated for closing the Boston Police gang database as well as for allowing noncitizens to vote in local elections; conditioned participation in city life on vaccination status; stood idly by while undocumented migrants overwhelm her city; and looked to noncitizens and children to make potential budgetary decisions.

Given her track record and Boston's "sanctuary city" status, Wu's recent suggestions that Beantown might try to hinder the incoming Trump administration's efforts to deport criminal illegal aliens were altogether unsurprising. She may have, however, been surprised by the frankness of the response by President-elect Donald Trump's incoming "border czar."

'They can't cross a clear line.'

Wu, who is planning to run for re-election in 2025, reminded GBH News last week that Boston law prohibits police and city officials from helping federal authorities track down and deport illegal aliens. While the laws on the books only guarantee passivity from local law enforcement, she intimated that the city might take an active role in impeding deportation efforts, noting that she has been planning for a number of different scenarios.

"We still have other mechanisms where we can identify spaces that might be most targeted and think about protections there," said Wu.

When speaking to WCVB-TV on Sunday, Wu appeared to suggest that the city will exhaust its options when protecting illegal aliens from consequence.

What we can do is make sure that we are doing our part to protect our residents in every possible way, that we are not cooperating with those efforts that actually threaten the safety of everyone by causing widespread fear and having large-scale economic impact. And then we are providing the spaces to reach out directly to our residents because the last thing we want is for people who are part of our economy, part of our school system, part of our community and the fabric of our city to feel that all of a sudden, they have to retreat in the shadows.

In response to Wu, former acting director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Thomas D. Homan told Newsmax TV's Greg Kelly, "She's not very smart."

"President Trump is going to prioritize public safety threats. What mayor or governor doesn't want public safety threats out of their communities? That's our number one responsibility: to protect their communities, and that's exactly what we're going to do," said Homan. "So she helps us [or] she gets the hell out of the way because we're going to do it."

Homan stressed that federal law is explicit and Wu would do best to follow it.

"There's a clear line here. They can't cross a clear line. I would suggest that she read Title 8, United States Code 1324 iii that says you can't harbor, conceal an illegal alien from federal law enforcement officers," said Homan. "I hope she don't cross that line. They can not cooperate, but there are certain laws in place that they can't cross."

The law that Homan referred to makes it a punishable offense if one "conceals, harbors or shields from detection, or attempts to conceal, harbor or shield from detection" illegal aliens.

If violating the statute and placing someone's life in jeopardy, the offender could be fined and/or imprisoned for up to 20 years for each alien involved. If by violating the statute an individual gets someone killed, then the offender could be "punished by death or imprisoned for any term of years or for life."

Like Wu, Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey (D) has indicated that she would use "every tool in the toolbox" to shield "residents" from accountability.

Blaze News previously reported that Homan intends to send more ICE officers to sanctuary jurisdictions that refuse to cooperate with federal immigration officials.

"If they're not gonna help us, then we'll just double the manpower in those cities. They don't want ICE agents in their neighborhoods, but they don't let ICE agents in the jail. They don't understand, if you let us in the jail, that'd be less agents in your neighborhood," Homan told "Fox News Live."

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Trump names his border czar, revealing he means business



President-elect Donald Trump announced Sunday that former acting director of U.S. Immigration and Custom Enforcement Thomas D. Homan will serve as "border czar" in his incoming administration.

"The Former ICE Director, and stalwart on Border Control, Tom Homan, will be joining the Trump Administration, in charge of our Nation's Borders ('The Border Czar'), including, but not limited to, the Southern Border, the Northern Border, all Maritime, and Aviation Security," Trump noted on Truth Social.

"I've known Tom for a long time, and there is nobody better at policing and controlling our Borders. Likewise, Tom Homan will be in charge of all Deportation of Illegal Aliens back to their Country of Origin," continued Trump. "Congratulations to Tom. I have no doubt he will do a fantastic, and long awaited for, job."

Homan, the president and CEO of Border911, has proven himself to be a no-nonsense law enforcement official, unwavering in his belief that like other criminals, illegal aliens "should be afraid" when flouting America's laws.

Trump promoted Homan to acting ICE director in January 2017, then nominated him as director. According to the New York Times, illegal immigration arrests skyrocketed 38% under Homan from Jan. 22 to April 29, as compared with the previous year under former President Barack Obama, who gave him the government's highest civil service award in 2015.

"These statistics reflect President Trump's commitment to enforce our immigration laws fairly and across the board," Homan said at the time.

Extra to criticizing so-called sanctuary cities and demonstrating a willingness to go after any of the tens of millions of illegal aliens who had stolen into the homeland, Homan helped blow up Democrats' family-separation talking point, underscoring that the U.S. has separated minors and adults at the border for over three decades.

'I got down on my knees, put my hand on the child's head, and said a prayer.'

When Homan — whose Senate confirmation never came — retired in April 2018, former Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen stated,

Under his exceptional leadership, the men and women of ICE have made significant progress in restoring the rule of law to our immigration system. Consistent with the priorities set out by President Trump, the past year has seen arrests increase by 40 percent, interior removals increase by 30 percent, and the highest number of MS-13 arrests since 2008. But perhaps most important to Tom is that employee morale at ICE is the highest it has been since 2010, which I believe is due in large part to his passionate leadership.

While the liberal media has attempted in recent years to characterize Homan as callous, he revealed to the Atlantic in 2022 that his desire to end illegal immigration and secure the border was not born solely out of a sense of duty to the nation and his fellow citizens but also out of a sense of humanitarian responsibility to would-be border-jumpers.

In 2003, he was reportedly called to a crime scene in Victoria, Texas, where over 70 illegal aliens had been found crammed into a semitruck. When the trailer was opened, corpses tumbled out. Seventeen were dead, and two more would ultimately die. Among the dead was a 5-year-old boy — the same age as Homan's son at the time.

"I got down on my knees, put my hand on the child's head, and said a prayer, because I could only imagine what his last hour of life must have been like, how scared he must have been. Couldn't breathe, pitch black, begging his father to help him. His father couldn't help," said Homan. "What was his father thinking? He'd put him in that position, right? His father was probably saying, 'I can't believe I did this.'"

'What price do you put on national security?'

Homan added, "That one instance made me who I am today, because it's preventable. We could stop this."

Homan demonstrated the continued strength of his resolve in an interview last month with CBS News' "60 Minutes." When asked about the potential cost of deporting one million illegal aliens a year, Homan said, "What price do you put on national security?"

The former ICE boss further revealed a resistance to emotional manipulation.

Correspondent Cecilia Vega concern-mongered about the possibility families might be separated as a consequence of mass deportation. Homan reassured Vega, "Families can be deported together."

While Homan is likely to succeed in the position, the previous border czar, failed presidential candidate Kamala Harris, set the bar incredibly low. After all, she oversaw the illegal entry of tens of millions of foreign nationals into the country, including terroristic gang members and human traffickers.

Homan told Fox News over the weekend that the deportation campaign is "going to be a well-targeted, planned operation conducted by the men of ICE. The men and women of ICE do this daily. They're good at it."

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