Border Czar Tom Homan announced that the Trump administration will triple the number of immigration enforcement personnel deployed to sanctuary cities, declaring, “We’re gonna flood the zone with officers.”

The move comes after teenage illegal immigrants affiliated with “Los Diablos de 42”—described as a feeder group for the Venezuelan Tren de Aragua gang—allegedly assaulted NYPD officers in Times Square on Friday.

In response, New York Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch confirmed that the NYPD is coordinating with federal agencies but emphasized, “The NYPD does not engage in civil immigration matters—period.”

Homan slammed Tisch during an interview with Fox News’ Laura Ingraham.

“These people are in the country illegally, and the first thing the police commissioner did up there  — she’s ordered an internal affairs investigation,” he told the host. “Did someone call ICE? Because we happened to be at the precinct where some of these people were being processed by happenstance, but now all of a sudden there’s an internal affairs investigation.”

“Who called ICE? We just proved to the city commissioner, we proved to the city council, that wants to lock us out of Rikers Island, that working with Mayor Adams … we indicted 27 members of TdA through a RICO investigation,” he said.

“These are people who are murder-for-hire, drug traffickings, sex trafficking, gun trafficking. We took 27 TdA off the street. ICE, with the cooperation of the NYPD, we showed what our partnership can do,” he added.

In mid-April, the New York City Council filed a lawsuit seeking a temporary restraining order and a preliminary injunction to block Mayor Eric Adams’ Executive Order 50, which authorizes U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to establish an office within the Rikers Island jail facility.

“They’re already pulling back now,” Homan continued. “So the commissioner is more concerned with who called ICE rather than working with ICE to get these people not out of the street, (but) out of the country. … This is just another example of sanctuary cities not cooperating with ICE and look what happened: NYPD officers are attacked. If you’re brazen enough to attack an armed law enforcement officer, you’re much more dangerous to an unarmed civilian.”

Asked by the host for three illegal immigrants “still on the loose,” Homan replied, “We’re comin’ for ‘em.” He continued, “These are the type of people that AOC brags, ‘Why I’m educating people on their constitutional rights.’ We all know what she’s doing. She’s educating criminals now to evade law enforcement.”

“Well, you know, I’m gonna do a little educating myself: You don’t want to open the door; you don’t want to answer a question; you don’t want to help us with the travel documents that get you removed, that’s a violation of Title VIII, United States Code 1253. It’s a crime. And we’re going to start prosecuting those crimes tomorrow,” he said.

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“If you got a final order, and you want to hinder your removal, you want to put roadblocks up and not cooperate, you want to hide and not open the door, then the agency is gonna start prosecuting you criminally,” he warned. “Then, after you get out of jail from that prosecution, then we deport you. Game’s over. We’re gonna look for these public safety threats and we’re gonna take ‘em off the streets in New York and every other sanctuary city.

“As a matter of fact, every sanctuary city, we’re gonna triple the workforce. We’re gonna flood the zone with officers. If we can’t arrest them in the jail, we’re gonna arrest them in the community. If we can’t arrest them in the community, we’ll arrest them at their worksite,” Homan warned.