Border Czar Tom Homan is continuing his feud with Democrat New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and said that the “tables have now turned.”
“I take pleasure [that] I can live in her mind rent-free every day, but we all know exactly what she’s doing,” he said to Fox News host Laura Ingraham on Tuesday.
“She’s educating the worst of the worst [on] how do we evade law enforcement. But the tables have now turned. She’s educating people how to get prosecuted, because you have a final order,” she said.
“It is illegal to not comply with that order,” the border czar said.
“It’s a crime to take steps to… not comply with ICE [Immigration and Customs Enforcement] removal orders or not comply with ICE actions taken in custody. You can’t hinder your own removal that was ordered by the federal judge. I would like AOC to read Title 8, United States Code 1253 because it’s starting tomorrow,” she said.
It came after the firebrand representative dared Homan to “come” for her.
“Tom Homan said he was going to refer me to DOJ because I’m using my free speech rights in order to advise people of their constitutional protections. To that I say: Come for me. Do I look like I care?” she said at her town hall in Jackson Heights, Queens.
But Homan hit back at the representative, saying that the games are “over.”
“Game’s over. We’re going to look for these public safety threats, and we’re going to take them off those streets in New York and every other sanctuary city,” the border czar said.
“As a matter of fact, every sanctuary in the city, we’re going to triple the workforce. We’re going flood the zone with officers. If we can’t arrest them in the jail, we’ll arrest them in the community. If we cannot arrest them in the community, we will arrest them on their work site.
“We’re taking these public safety threats off the streets with your help or without your help,” he said.
And he is not the only administration official who has taken aim at the New York Democrat.
Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem spoke to Fox News host Sean Hannity on Monday and said it would be “entirely appropriate” for the Department of Justice to look into the Democrat-Socialist representative for a webinar she did where she advised illegal immigrants on what they can do if confronted by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
When asked about Rep. Ocasio-Cortez’s town hall comments, Noem said that perhaps the Department of Justice should investigate what she did.
“I think the Department of Justice absolutely should look into this situation,” she said. “We’ve seen not just those that serve in public office be willing to break the law to facilitate the invasion that has happened and allow criminals to stay here. We’ve also seen judges take radical action to help protect these criminals. It’s time that we stand for what’s right.”
“The American people are sick of these people abusing our system to try to promote an agenda. Remember, the Democrats are using fear to control people. They’re out there motivating people by fear, and they’re standing alongside known terrorists in order to endanger our future,” the Homeland Security chief said.
“So I think it’s entirely appropriate that the Department of Justice look into these situations,” she said.
On Feb. 12, Ocasio-Cortez made waves when she hosted the webinar, titled “Know Your Rights With ICE.”
“We see how ICE often uses rhetoric to criminalize immigrants, to normalize their tactics and justify what they’re doing,” she said as she described the encounters as “often very aggressive.”
On her website, Ocasio-Cortez also had a flyer that told illegal immigrants about “their rights.”
It said, “You do not have to open the door” for Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers.
It also told them that ICE agents can’t go into someone’s home without a valid warrant signed by a judge. The poster said, “Ask them to put the warrant under the door.”
Her office also helps illegal immigrants get free legal help so they don’t have to be deported.