Border Czar Vows ICE Surge in New York After State Bans Masked Agents (opens in new tab)

Days after Kathy Hochul signed New York's MELT Act banning masked ICE agents and barring local police from immigration work, border czar Tom Homan said a deportation surge into New York City is coming. The standoff turns a blue state's defiance into a test of who controls enforcement on a city's streets.