Trump administration Border Czar Tom Homan on Saturday ripped Democrat Newark Mayor Ras Baraka for claiming he was supporting the rule of law when he trespassed at the Delaney Hall ICE detention facility.
Baraka was arrested and briefly detained on Friday for “storming” the facility, The Daily Wire reported. The mayor and two other Democrats reportedly rushed into the center after gates were opened to allow a bus of apparent illegal criminals into the facility.
“We ask them to obey our laws, to obey the policies, the rules here, in the city and the state of New Jersey, not to run roughshod over the Constitution of the United States, the Bill of Rights, the 4th, 5th, the 14th Amendment, that everybody on this soil deserves due process,” Mayor Baraka said to the press on Friday.
“Well look, he’s not very smart,” Homan reacted on Fox News. “The bottom line is, that is what this facility is all about. This facility is about due process. This facility is where we put illegal aliens … this is where due process happens. We have to detain them to go through the due process of, sometimes seeing a judge,” or other processes, like sending them back to their country.
Homan went on to criticize the Democrats for rushing the facility and putting safety and security at risk for the public, illegal immigrants, and others. “You don’t make an unauthorized entry while they’re moving a bus of criminals into the facility,” he said.
The border czar said people don’t have to support ICE, but they can’t “cross that line.”
“You can’t cross that line of impediment, you can’t cross that line of knowingly harboring, concealing illegal aliens, and you certainly can’t trespass in a facility that’s contracted by the U.S. government to house criminals,” he said. “That’d be like breaking into a prison, not going through the proper protocols. This creates a huge safety crisis.”
“This is about politics” for those Democrats, Homan continued. “They simply don’t want these people removed from this country. They don’t want immigration enforcement in this country.”
As highlighted by The Daily Wire, Baraka is currently campaigning to be New Jersey’s next governor and has been protesting the ICE facility since it opened.
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