President Donald Trump’s border czar visited Seattle and Tacoma this week.
Tom Homan wrote in an X post that he traveled to so-called sanctuary cities along the West Coast to speak with Immigration and Customs Enforcement and U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers.
Homan said he spoke to the men and women of ICE and CBP and “let them know that President Donald Trump and I have their six."
"We will not negligently ignore the laws that Congress has enacted nor will we turn our backs on U.S. communities when criminal illegal aliens are plaguing their streets," Homan said.
Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell's office did not know Homan was visiting the city.
"As I wrote to President Trump and Attorney General Bondi this week, Seattle won't change our values and policies in response to baseless threats and bullying,” Harrell said in a statement to The Seattle Times.
ICE did not respond to repeated requests for comment. CBP declined to say anything.
Trump’s eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., referred to Seattle and Portland as “craphole cities” in an interview with Newsmax on Thursday when speaking about the administration’s takeover of the Washington D.C. police force.
He also suggested the possibility of a federal takeover of police forces in the two cities.
“Maybe we should roll out the tour to Portland, Seattle, the other craphole cities of the country,” Trump Jr. said in the interview. “Not because they’re crapholes but because Democrats made them so. Maybe we’re going to expand this.”
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