Homan warns Spanberger blocking access to Virginia jails could force more ICE street operations: ‘Do the job’

President Donald Trump’s border czar, Tom Homan, blasted Democratic Virginia Gov. over her policies surrounding federal immigration officials and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detainer requests that have been ignored by the state under her leadership. 

Homan sat down with Fox News Digital for an exclusive interview, where he said if Spanberger is unwilling to cooperate with federal law enforcement, the border czar is willing to “send more teams into the streets.” 

“Elections have consequences,” Homan explained. “[Spanberger] ran on a law enforcement position that she was a career law enforcement person. [She] is a much different person now since shes in that governors slot.”

“Bottom line is, I wish she’d take a page out of the Minnesota chapter when the president sent me to Minneapolis to get more cooperation with the county jailers, which means less public safety threats in the communities,” Homan added.

The border czar said, “ICE is not going to stop ” and that if blue states like Virginia continue to uphold strict sanctuary laws, the Trump administration will deploy more immigration enforcement agents into the streets.

“We’ll just send more teams into the streets, into the neighborhoods,” Homan told Fox News Digital. “Because we’re going to do the job that President Trump promised, to make his country safer again, especially against illegal aliens that committed other crimes while they’re here.”

A Washington Post-Schar School poll released earlier this week showed a dramatic 46% of Virginians disapprove of — the lowest since 1994 compared to previous Republican and Democratic Virginia governors.

During a press gaggle on Wednesday, Spanberger said it is an “absolute lie” that state and local police are unwilling to work with federal agencies, including ICE, and addressed her poll numbers. 

“Virginia State Police is a top-notch law enforcement agency, and I dont think it’s responsible for us, for me as governor, for the commonwealth of Virginia, to put Virginia State Police under the supervision or direction of ICE,” Spanberger told reporters. “That is a change I made, I think it is the right one, I know it is the right one, and I stand by it.”

The Virginia governor also addressed the recent poll when speaking with the press. 

“I would say if everyone hated me, then why is everyone putting my face on their mailers, for the referendum, would be question number one,” Spanberger said. “The only poll that matters, is my election, 17 point win, and now I’m doing the work for Virginians, so what matters to me in the end, is what I’m delivering for the people.”

In early February, Spanberger issued an executive directive between state agencies and federal immigration officials.

She also put in place by former Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin. 

Youngkins program authorized local law enforcement to carry out certain immigration enforcement duties while operating under ICE supervision. This includes stopping the with criminal records and helping federal immigration agencies identify those already held in local jails.

Homan said the concept of of committing crimes from jail without notifying ICE is “ridiculous.”

“These people are in the country illegally, they commit a serious crime, public safety crime, and the local jurisdiction chooses to release them into the community rather than turning them over to ICE,” Homan told Fox News Digital. 

“The Department of Justice has got lawsuits pending against sanctuary jurisdictions,” Homan added. “I think they’ll win them in the long run, because I think are illegal.”

“We’re out there trying to educate these sanctuary cities that if you let us in the jail… that means less of our agents are in the street,” he said.

Homan also said the administration has their “foot on the gas” when it comes to enforcing the presidents campaign promise to secure the border and depo