‘Don’t test us’: Trump’s border tsar threatens sanctuary city leaders seeking to block mass deportations

Donald Trump’s new border tsar has warned there will be harsh consequences for those who threaten to block mass deportation efforts.

President-elect Donald Trump’s border tsar Tom Homan vows to instil harsh consequences on sanctuary city leaders who are threatening to block immigration authorities from carrying out their planned mass deportation – telling them plain and simple: “Don’t test us.”

“Let me be clear, there is going to be a mass deportation because we just finished a mass illegal immigration crisis on the border,” Mr Homan said during a visit to the border on Tuesday in Eagle Pass, Texas, alongside Governor Greg Abbott.

“If we don’t do it, what is the option? Let them stay? Cause if you let them stay, you’ll never fix the border. You’re gonna send a message to the rest of the world: enter the country illegally, which is a crime, ignore a court order … we’re telling the whole world it’s OK to enter this country illegally, you’ve never got to go home,” he added, the New York Post reports.

Tom Homan has vowed to instil harsh consequences on those who threaten to block mass deportation efforts. Picture: Megan Varner/Getty/AFP

To leaders threatening to get in the way of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Homan warned, “Don’t cross that line.”

“It is a felony to knowingly harbor or conceal an illegal immigrant from immigration authorities. Don’t test us.”

One of those leaders is Denver Mayor Mike Johnston, who recently pledged to shield migrants in his sanctuary city from Trump’s mass deportation by using local cops and 50,000 residents “stationed at the county line” – calling it a “Tiananmen Square moment.”

“More than us having (federal agents) stationed at the county line to keep them out, you would have 50,000 Denverites there,” Mr Johnston recently told the outlet Denverite.

“It’s like the Tiananmen Square moment … right?” he said, referring to the famous caught-on-video showdown between a Chinese student and government tank in Tiananmen Square in China during the 1989 rebellion.

“You’d have every one of those Highland mums who came out for the migrants. And you do not want to mess with them,” Mr Johnston said of Denver residents prepared to go to the mat against the federal government.

Donald Trump this month appointed Tom Homan as the ‘border Tsar’. Picture: Chris Unger/Zuffa LLC/Getty

Trucks wait on a queue to cross to the US next to the border wall at the Otay commercial crossing port in Tijuana, Baja California state, Mexico. Picture: Guillermo Arias/AFP

Mr Homan recently told The Post that he hopes the incoming Trump admin will file lawsuits and withhold federal funding to sanctuary cities.

If that doesn’t work, he said, the White House will “flood” ICE officers to those areas, where they will be waiting outside local jails for illegal migrants to be released.

Mr Homan said the admin will prioritise illegal migrant criminals first for deportation.

Of the nearly 7.8 million illegal immigrants who are in the United States and on the radar of federal immigration officials, 662,586 are convicted felons or have criminal charges pending.

In New York City alone, “it would take a lifetime” to deport the city’s migrant criminals, the head of ICE’s field office in the Big Apple recently told The Post.

This article originally appeared in the New York Post and has been reproduced with permission.