President-elect Donald Trump’s incoming “border czar” is going on a warpath after liberal leaders began issuing warnings in recent days that they plan to defy the administration’s mass deportation orders.
Tom Homan, a former Immigration and Customs Enforcement acting director in Trump’s first term, made perhaps his most striking remark Tuesday, when he threatened to throw the Democratic Denver mayor in jail if it came to that.
“He’s willing to go to jail. I’m willing to put him in jail,” Homan said of Mayor Mike Johnston during a television interview.
Homan then rattled off a federal statute he has cited in several interviews as his answer for defiant mayors. The statute, found under Title 8, Section 1324, prohibits “bringing in and harboring certain aliens.”
“Read about that, and don’t cross that line because it is a felony to harbor and conceal…
