Border Czar Homan Shrugs Off Ocasio-cortez's Ice Arrest Warning, Tells Her 'you Can't Intimidate Me'

Border czar Tom Homan brushed speech a informing Thursday from Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., complete nan imaginable apprehension of Democratic lawmakers for an ICE protestation clash.

Three New Jersey Democratic members of Congress – Reps. Bonnie Watson Coleman, Robert Menendez and LaMonica McIver – were accused of storming a Newark ICE installation connected Friday, on pinch Newark Mayor Ras Baraka, who was arrested and charged pinch trespassing.

While nan Department of Homeland Security is considering arresting nan Democratic lawmakers, Ocasio-Cortez warned against location being immoderate consequences for them. 

In a video published connected Instagram Saturday, she said, "You laic a digit connected personification – connected Bonnie Watson Coleman aliases immoderate of nan representatives that were location – you laic a digit connected them, we’re going to person a problem."

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Border czar Tom Homan shrugged disconnected disapproval from Rep. Ocasio-Cortez. (CNN)

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"If anyone's breaking nan rule successful this situation, it's not members of Congress. It's nan Department of Homeland Security. It's group for illustration Tom Homan and Secretary Kristi Noem," Ocasio-Cortez added.

Homan was asked astir nan video during an question and reply pinch CNN’s Jake Tapper connected Thursday, wherever he brushed disconnected her comments.

"First of all, you can’t intimidate me. Come on. Give maine a break," Homan replied. 

"I was wearing a greenish uniform, Border Patrol supplier for 5 years earlier she was moreover born. I had much than 3 decades enforcing migration rule earlier she became a personnel of Congress," he said. "I worked for six presidents. I‘ve seen policies. I‘ve seen hundreds of policies. Some worked, immoderate didn‘t. But you can‘t contradict nan occurrence of nan Trump management erstwhile it comes to separator security. Again, nan astir unafraid separator successful nan history of this nation."

The separator czar past made a favoritism betwixt disliking ICE and refusing to cooperate pinch them. 

"I’ve said from time one, and she knows this: You tin not support ICE. Shame connected you. You tin support sanctuary cities. Shame connected you. But you can‘t transverse nan line," he said. "You can‘t knowingly impede ICE rule enforcement officers. That is simply a felony. You can‘t harbor and conceal, knowingly harbor and conceal forbidden aliens from ICE. That is simply a felony. And you surely can‘t perpetrate criminal trespass."

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., speaking astatine a municipality hallway successful Queens, left, and Tom Homan. (David Dee Delgado/Getty, Jim WATSON / AFP, right. Images, left, )

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Homan past slammed Ocasio-Cortez, arguing nan Trump management serves her constituents amended than she does.

"You know, and arsenic acold arsenic New York, her district, this management has done much to protect her territory than she has," he argued. "The number of criminal aliens we took disconnected nan streets of New York made her organization overmuch safer. She ought to beryllium thanking nan members of this administration, nan men and women of ICE, who protect this state and make her organization safer."

He concluded, "So, you know, it‘s authorities complete nationalist safety. It‘s conscionable ridiculous. She ought to emotion her organization much than she hates Trump, because we‘re doing a batch to protect her community."

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., speaks astatine nan NYCLU's May Day rally for workers' and immigrants' authorities astatine Foley Square, Thursday, May 1, 2025, successful New York. (AP Photo/Angelina Katsanis)

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Homan has brushed disconnected AOC's disapproval before, saying, "I wish she'd do her job. She's a legislator, right? Why doesn’t she walk immoderate legislation… and really amended this state for illustration President Donald Trump is already doing?" 

They person besides fought complete nan New York congresswoman school forbidden immigrants really to "evade" ICE raids. 

Fox News' Charles Creitz and Elizabeth Elkind contributed to this report.