Thomas Homanwhom President-elect Donald Trump called a “border czar” on Sunday night, has a clear message for any Democratic governor who opposes the planned mass deportation operation.

“If they’re not willing to help, then get the hell out of the way because (ICE) is going to do its job,” said Homan, who served as acting ICE director during the first Trump administration. Fox News Digital in an interview Friday.

Trump announced Sunday that Homan would be named “border czar” and be in charge of borders and “all deportations of illegal aliens back to their country of origin” in the new administration.

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Before the announcement, Fox News asked Homan about comments from Democratic governors who indicated they would not work with the administration on mass deportation of illegal immigrants.

Mass. Governor Maura Healey said last week that “every tool in the toolbox must be used to protect our citizens, to protect our residents and to protect our states, and to hold the line on democracy and the rule of law as a basic principle.”

“Not. Absolutely not,” she said last week when asked if state police would help with deportations.

Thomas Homan speaks on Day 3 of the Republican National Convention at the Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee on July 17, 2024. (REUTERS/Mike Segar)

Homan, a Fox News contributor, suspects some “sanctuary” jurisdictions will work with the administration.

“They won’t say it, but with all the alien murders and the young women being sexually assaulted and killed, some sheriffs showed up and worked with us behind the scenes,” he said.

However, while he said it would be helpful to have the “force multiplier” of assistance from state and local governments and for agents to have access to county jails where serious illegal immigrant criminals are being held, he said the lack of that help would not stop operations.

“If you don’t want to work with us, then screw it, we will. What that means is that instead of sending 100 people to Boston, we’re going to send 200 agents. in Boston. We will do the job,” he said.

“We have a mandate. I think the American people just gave President Trump a mandate. That’s why he was elected — to secure the border, save lives, and deport people, especially threats to national security and threats to public safety. So if you’re not going to help us, get out of the way, but don’t stand in our way, because there will be consequences.”

Homan said the immediate focus would be on those illegal immigrants with criminal convictions or charges, as had been the focus under the first Trump administration.

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“It’s not going to be a massive neighborhood sweep, it’s not going to be massive raids. It’s going to be a targeted enforcement operation,” he said.

However, he cautioned that this does not mean that no one is off the table. “If you’re in a country illegally, you have a problem.”

Then-President Trump, left, and acting Director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement Thomas Homan speak during an enforcement roundtable on sanctuary cities in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, Tuesday, March 20, 2018, in Washington, DC (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Homan argues that since millions of people have entered illegally across the southern border under the Biden administration, there must be consequences for those who do not have a valid asylum claim or there is no true due process.

“There will be a massive deportation operation because we have never seen it before illegal immigration where 90% will be ordered removed. It’s common sense,” he said.

He also said many illegal immigrants are likely to leave on their own when the incentives to cross the border end. How many can be removed, he says, will depend on the resources made available.

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“It depends on the resources, it depends on the money. But I guarantee you that President Trump means what he says and there will be a green light to enforce our laws and secure that border. And that will require a mass deportation operation,” he said . said.

Homan, a former NYPD officer, Border Patrol agent and ICE chief, was expected to play a key role in mass deportation operation. A 2016 Washington Post article said Homan “deports people. And he’s very good at it.”

Homan said Friday about his potential role in the administration: “Here’s what I will say. I didn’t ask for a position. I certainly didn’t ask for a cabinet position. President Trump knows that if he needs me to do a deportation operation. , if he needs me to secure the border I am ready to help in any way and he will decide what he wants me to do or if he wants me to do it.

Instead, he emphasized the threat posed at the border and the determination in the incoming administration to address it.

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“The southern border is the biggest national security vulnerability I’ve seen in my lifetime. It should be a nonpartisan issue. People shouldn’t be making death threats against me, hating me. Securing the border should to be a nonpartisan issue,” he said. “And we’re going to do it… I don’t care what people think, we’re going to do it.”