Harold Hutchison, Daily Caller News Foundation | December 23, 2024
Border czar-designate Tom Homan on Monday criticized Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul of New York after a woman died Sunday after a migrant allegedly lit her on fire while on the New York City subway.
Sebastin Zapeta, a 33-year-old Guatemalan illegal immigrant previously deported by the Trump administration, was arrested Sunday by the New York Police Department in connection with the incident, Fox News reported. Homan ripped Hochul, who touted the subway’s safety after the killing, about the incident.
“This is another example of an illegal alien killing American citizen. It’s almost a daily occurrence now. You know, because [a] historic number of criminal aliens [are] walking the streets because of this administration’s policy and sanctuary jurisdictions and lax immigration enforcement,” Homan told “Fox and Friends co-host Brian Kilmeade. “ICE has their hands tied. Secretary Mayorkas have given them priorities that they can’t even go arrest illegal alien anymore unless is he convicted, convicted, of a serious crime then maybe they can arrest him. So this is on this administration.”
“As far as Governor Hochul, shame on her. She supports sanctuary status in that state. She welcomed thousands of illegal aliens to her state,” Homan continued. “She sent them to Buffalo and Syracuse. Murders occurred by illegal aliens in Buffalo and Syracuse. She had the green light law. ICE and CBP can’t even work with local law enforcement. Local law enforcement can’t share DMV data with these people. Governor Hochul, shame on you, there is nothing can you say that’s going to make this right in New York.”
President-elect Donald Trump announced Homan, a former acting director of United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement, would serve as “border czar” on Nov. 11. During the 2024 presidential campaign, Trump highlighted a series of crimes involving illegal immigrants, including the murders of Rachel Morin, Laken Riley and Jocelyn Nungaray and the struggles experienced by the city of Springfield, Ohio, after an influx of over 20,000 Haitian migrants.
“Sebastian Zapeta-Calil, 33, is an unlawfully present Guatemalan citizen who entered the United States without admission by an immigration official,” ICE spokesperson Jeff Carter told the Daily Caller News Foundation. “U.S. Border Patrol in Sonoita, Arizona, encountered Zapeta June 1, 2018, and served him with an order of expedited removal and Enforcement and Removal Operations removed Zapeta from the U.S. to Guatemala June 7, 2018.”
Homan also called out Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas, accusing the impeached cabinet secretary of telling “nothing but lies” in an interview with CBS, before highlighting the number of children the Biden administration allegedly lost track of.
“Under his guidance, under his leadership, first of all, it’s his policies that caused over half a million children being smuggled in this country, trafficked in this country and they – they lost track of 340,000 of them,” Homan said. “When his lips are moving, is he lying and he needs to be held accountable. Nothing he said in that interview was truthful.”
At least 85,000 children placed into the custody of the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) are unaccounted for, according to a February 2023 report by The New York Times.
The Border Patrol encountered over 7.4 million illegal immigrants since the start of fiscal year 2021, according to figures released by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP).
Harold Hutchison is a reporter at the Daily Caller News Foundation
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