President-elect Donald Trump’s incoming border czar, Tom Homan, said this week that there will be major immigration raids throughout the country shortly after Trump takes office.
Homan made the remarks during an interview with Fox News’ Jesse Watters on Friday evening, just a couple of days before Trump is sworn into office, when asked if there were going to be big raids happening in Chicago on Tuesday.
“There’s going to be a big raid all across the country,” Homan said. “Chicago is just one of many places.”
“We got 24 field offices across the country,” he continued. “On Tuesday, ICE is finally going to go out and do their job. We’re going to take the handcuffs off ICE and let them go arrest criminal aliens. That’s what’s going to happen.”
When asked what ICE has been doing for the last four years, Homan said: “They haven’t been able to do much because…