Name: Border czar claims sanctuary cities are restricting access to jails
Uploaded: 2026-01-14T00:39:18.901Z
Duration: 4 min 47 s
Description: Trump border czar Tom Homan is calling for federal immigration agents to be let into local jails to pursue detained targets suspected of being in the country unlawfully.

Trump border czar Tom Homan is calling for federal immigration agents to be let into local jails to pursue detained targets suspected of being in the country unlawfully.

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Federal and local officials are at odds as Minnesota sues the Trump administration, alleging that ICE's immigration enforcement tactics violate federal law and endanger public safety. The Department of Homeland Security defends its actions, citing constitutional authority, while the Trump administration moves to end temporary protected status for Somali immigrants, putting approximately 2,500 individuals at risk of deportation.

The conflict has been heightened by sanctuary policies in Democratic-led jurisdictions, which restrict cooperation with ICE and prevent local jails from honoring ICE detainers. Federal officials argue that these policies force agents to conduct more arrests in the community, while sanctuary jurisdictions maintain they lack legal authority to hold individuals ordered released and that cooperation with ICE undermines trust in immigrant communities.

Border czar claims sanctuary cities are restricting access to jails

Officials in Minnesota are suing the Trump administration over ICE activity in the state. They argue the federal immigration operations have violated federal law, claiming ICE agents quote, reckless tactics endanger the public safety and that their policing tactics provoke the protests the federal government seeks to suppress. The Department of Homeland Security says the lawsuit brought by Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison is quote, prioritizing politics over public safety, adding quote, we have the constitution on our side on this and we look forward to proving that in court. The uptick in federal officials in the state began when the Trump administration started investigating an alleged fraud scandal implicating members of the Somali American community. And now our Camila Montoya-Galvez is reporting the Trump administration is terminating their temporary protected status program. Roughly 2,500 Somali immigrants are now at risk of deportation when they lose their legal status and work permits March 11th, March 17th rather. The White House is urging TPS holders whose status will lapse to self-deport. The Department of Homeland Security says those who comply will be given a plane ticket, $1,000 exit bonus and the opportunity for potential future legal immigration. As federal immigration agents publicly feud with local authorities, president Trump's borders are Tom Holman is once again calling for agents to be let into local jails to pursue detained targets suspected of being in the country unlawfully. We would have had less officers in the community if we were in the jail. Bottom line, we are forced into the community because the governor of that state and the mayor support sanctuary cities where child rapists are released back in the community. They create a huge public safety threat. So if you want less officers in the street, then let us in the jail. CBS News immigration politics reporter Camila Montoya-Galvez is here with me in Studio 57 with some new reporting. So Camila, thank you for being here. I mean, for starters, are these statements from Holman accurate or Democrat led cities and states allowing federal agents into jails? Well, Lindsay, it is true that there are some Democratic led jurisdictions across the country that do not cooperate or work with federal immigration agencies like ICE, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and also Customs and Border Protection. That often entails local rules that prohibit and bar officials in local state county jails from honoring what are known as ICE detainers. These are requests by ICE for local officials in jails to hold on to non-citizen inmates before they are released, so ICE can come and pick them up and detain them pursuant to a deportation proceeding. We're talking about people who have been arrested, charged or convicted with local crimes and are set to be released because the judge has ordered them to be released or they have served their sentence for that alleged crime. That is the case in cities like New York City, states like California and also counties like Hennepin County, which is home to Minneapolis, of course, now home to that massive deployment of federal immigration agents. And ICE has long argued under Democratic and Republican administrations that that non-cooperation, rather, forces the agencies to go into communities, to go into the streets of many cities to find and arrest the individuals who they could have picked up and arrested in local jails. And that because of that lack of cooperation and the fact that many sanctuary cities continue to adopt these policies, the agency has to go into communities to arrest individuals who are here illegally but also have serious criminal records. What is the justification for not allowing these agents into these jails and would access make a big difference? Well, the Democratic-led jurisdictions that have these so-called sanctuary policies say that they do not have the legal or constitutional authority to retain custody of noncitizens who have been order-released by judges for the purposes of letting ICE come to their facilities to pick them up. More broadly, sanctuary jurisdictions also say that working with ICE and Border Patrol in the first place creates distrust within the immigrant communities that they serve, blurring the lines between local police departments and federal immigration agents, and scaring immigrants in their communities from reporting crimes. We should know that some of these sanctuary jurisdictions have exceptions for serious offenders, so they do transfer some serious criminals to federal immigration agents. And lastly, I should point out that critics of the administration would also say that this is not the only reason why ICE and Border Patrol is increasingly going into communities to arrest people in Home Depot parking lots or on the street, because many of the people they are arresting are people who are undocumented here illegally but don't have any criminal history and never were in a local jail to begin with. Camilo Montoya Galvez, thank you.

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