Homan won’t be ‘intimidated’ by protesters showing up on his doorstep

SACKETS HARBOR, N.Y. — In an interview with WWNY, Trump “border czar” Tom Homan– a North Nation native and Sackets Harbor neighbor– says “they can rally and protest all they want, but I’m not gonna be bullied– I’m not gonna be intimidated. We’re gonna do our job.”

Homan was responding to a question about an upcoming protest motion, organized in response to the detention of a Jefferson County mom and her youngsters. Homan says the household had been taken into custody as potential witnesses to, or victims of, a suspect wanted by Customs and Border Safety.

Based on a legal criticism filed within the Northern District of New York by a CBP officer, a person residing in Sackets Harbor shared baby sexual assault materials with an undercover Homeland Safety agent, who had beforehand recognized themselves as a 13-year-old lady (the agent despatched AI-generated photos to masks their id). The messages had been traced to their supply, and on or round March 25, 2025, Choose Miroslav Lovric issued search warrants for the suspect’s individual, property, and gadgets.

The criticism says the search was executed on March 27, alongside brokers from Homeland Safety’s Syracuse workplace. Afterward, the suspect was dropped at a New York Police barracks, the place he was learn his Miranda rights and brought into custody. The criticism makes no point out of the dairy farm the place the household had been allegedly discovered, nor does it point out another houses or properties being included within the licensed search.

CBP informed North Country Public Radio that the mom, her youngsters, and as much as 4 others (stories differ concerning the actual quantity) had been “encountered” within the midst of their different investigation. CBP confirmed that the household and others had been faraway from the state and had been awaiting deportation (in his interview with WWNY, Homan says they’re being stored in an “open-air” facility). The New York Immigration Coalition believes they’re being held in Texas– regardless of their potential connection to against the law in New York, and their progress alongside the authorized pathway to citizenship, which has been famous by Sackets Harbor group members.

Tom Homan says that “after we do the victim review,” Immigration and Customs Enforcement will make a willpower concerning the “conditions of [the family’s] release.” That is unlikely to occur earlier than April 5, when a protest march is scheduled to finish in entrance of his Sackets Harbor house. He says the protesters “certainly have their 1st Amendment rights.”