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CHICAGO — Donald Trump\u2019s choice to lead border security efforts promised a hard line on enforcement in a speech Monday to Chicago Republicans, with apparently little room for leniency even for the U.S.-born children of illegal immigrants.<\/p>\n

Tom Homan, who has been picked to serve as \u201cborder czar\u201d in the new administration, said the children of non-citizens would be part of the wave of deportations promised by the incoming administration.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen you have a child, that’s on you. I’m not looking to separate families at all. That’s not my goal. My goal is to enforce the law,\u201d Homan said. \u201cBut if you put yourself in that position, it may happen.\u201d<\/p>\n

His remarks showed none of the flexibility that Trump himself seemed to suggest in a weekend interview, when he said that he favored some kind of resolution for the status of people brought to the country long ago as children by illegal immigrants \u2013 so-called \u201cdreamers.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have to do something about the dreamers because these are people that have been brought here at a very young age,\u201d Trump said in an interview with NBC News\u2019 \u201cMeet the Press with Kristen Welker.\u201d<\/p>\n

Homan, Trump\u2019s former acting U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement director offered a red meat approach to an audience that represents a small group \u2013 Republicans in a city that voted 77 percent for Vice President Kamala Harris.<\/p>\n

\u201cChicago is in trouble because your mayor sucks and your governor sucks,\u201d Homan said in reference to Gov. JB Pritzker and Mayor Brandon Johnson.<\/p>\n

Once the applause subsided, Homan called on Johnson and Pritzker, along with other Democrats who favor shielding migrants in \u201csanctuary\u201d cities and states, to work with immigration enforcement authorities like Mayor Eric Adams has done in New York.<\/p>\n

Pritzker has pushed back at the promised wave of mass deportations that Trump has said would be a feature of his second administration. \u201cYou come for my people, you come through me,\u201d the governor said recently<\/u><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Homan said he would \u201cwelcome\u201d Illinois Democratic leaders to \u201ccome to the table,\u201d on enforcement. \u201cHelp us protect you,\u201d he said. \u201cPlease. But if you don’t, get the hell out of the way.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re gonna get some results,” he said. “We\u2019re gonna be arresting a hell of a lot more people.” <\/p>\n

As he left the event, Homan told Blue Light News he had not reached out to the governor or mayor and that they should call him. \u201cThey need to reach out to me. Just like the mayor of New York reached out.\u201d<\/p>\n

Chicago Alderman Nicholas Sposato, one of less than a handful of Trump supporters on the 50-member City Council, said he liked what he heard from Homan and doesn\u2019t think Illinois or Chicago\u2019s sanctuary status needs to precent ICE from doing its work. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt means law enforcement just has to stay out of the way,\u201d Sposato said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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