President-elect Donald Trump's border czar Tom Homan has a warning for sanctuary cities considering trying to block the administration's plan for mass deportations: "Don't test us."

“Let me be clear, there is going to be a mass deportation because we just finished a mass illegal immigration crisis on the border,” Homan said when visiting the border near Eagle's Pass on Tuesday with Texas Governer Greg Abbott (R).

“If we don’t do it, what is the option? Let them stay? Cause if you let them stay, you’ll never fix the border. You’re gonna send a message to the rest of the world: enter the country illegally, which is a crime, ignore a court order … we’re telling the whole world it’s OK to enter this country illegally, you’ve never got to go home,” he added.

He also told state officials who would want to get in the way of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, "Don't cross that line."

Who is Homan?

Homan has been with U.S. Border Patrol since 1984.

He moved up the ranks and was named Executive Associate Directorof ICE at Headquarters in Washington, D.C. in 2013 under the Obama administration.

He was Director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement under Trump from January 2017 until June 2018, when he retired.

Homan left a private sector career as a best-selling author, consultant, and speaker to serve in Trump's second administrator.

A major election issue

Immigration was one of two major issues that seemed to decide the 2024 election, and Americans will be looking for results--namely, not letting illegal immigrants into the country and deporting many of the ones currently here waiting for asylum hearings.

According to data compiled by Center Square, more than 12 million illegal immigrants have entered the country since fiscal year 2021, the years the Biden administration has been in office.

While the Biden administration has not given a reason for its lax immigration policies, speculation is that Democrats support allowing illegal immigration so that at some point, they can give them amnesty and voting rights.

Democrats assume that most illegal immigrants will vote Democrat, but recent movement of many Hispanics toward the Republican Party may throw a kink in Democrats' plans, if they ever end up coming to pass.

Any plan for amnesty would need to pass through Congress, and the Senate has not had a filibuster-proof majority for either party since 1979.

Most Americans seem to understand that strong borders are essential to our homeland's security; maybe the Democrats will get it one day, too.