Kathy Hochul looked Tom Homan in the eye, heard exactly what would happen, and signed the law anyway.
Now Homan just reviewed the operational plan for New York City.
He told America it's coming – and he's not saying when.
The Deal Hochul Could Have Taken
Homan sat down with Governor Hochul months ago and made her an offer.
Work with ICE the way local sheriffs did in Minnesota.
Let federal agents arrest criminal aliens in the controlled environment of a county jail – one agent, one target, one safe transfer.
"If we can work with the sheriffs and arrest a bad guy in the safety and security of a jail," Homan explained Monday on Fox & Friends, "that means less teams into the neighborhoods, which causes a lot of panic, a lot of problems."
He told her exactly what the alternative looked like.
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Send teams into neighborhoods to hunt down people who don't want to be found – on their turf, with access to weapons, no warning for the community.
"Now we've got to send a whole team into the neighborhood to find this person that didn't want to be found," Homan said. "He has access to no-op weapons. Now we've got to arrest this guy in his turf."
Hochul signed the law anyway.
New York's new legislation – the New York for All Act and the Dignity Not Detention Act, tucked into the state's fiscal year 2027 budget – bans local jails from holding anyone on behalf of ICE, prohibits 287(g) cooperation agreements, and bars agencies from sharing personal information with federal immigration authorities.
Homan's offer expired the moment she put pen to paper.
New York Just Bought Itself the Minnesota Treatment
The last governor who forced Homan's hand got 4,000 ICE arrests and 3,000 federal agents running operations across the state for two and a half months.
Minnesota's Tim Walz refused cooperation. Homan surged.
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Operation Metro Surge ran from December 2025 through February 2026, with agents arresting more than 60 people per day at its peak – including 14 people with homicide convictions, 139 with assault convictions, and 87 who had committed sex offenses.
New York isn't Minnesota.
New York City is home to more than 3 million immigrants, the most entrenched sanctuary infrastructure in the country, and a mayor – Zohran Mamdani – who ran on abolishing ICE outright.
Homan knows the math.
Refusing jail cooperation doesn't make the targets disappear – it just means more agents, more neighborhood operations, and more risk for everyone involved.
DHS was already running at an extraordinary pace before Hochul's new law.
From January 20, 2025 through last summer, ICE issued 6,025 detainer requests in New York City alone – compared to just 9,472 during the entire four-year Biden administration.
That's a 400 percent increase.
And New York honored almost none of them.
This Is What Sanctuary Cities Actually Buy
New York politicians sell sanctuary status as protection for immigrants.
What it actually does is force federal agents into streets instead of jails, trade controlled transfers for unannounced neighborhood operations, and put the same targets at greater risk – not less.
New York City became a sanctuary city in 1989.
Thirty-seven years later, a Department of Justice lawsuit against the city documented that over 50 percent of illegal aliens apprehended in a recent enforcement operation had significant criminal convictions or active charges – murder, assault, arson, sex crimes.
Those are not people ICE invented.
Those are people New York's own policies let walk.
Hochul had a way out – and Homan is counting on every other Democrat governor watching her take the wrong one.
This is the playbook now: Homan offers cooperation, the governor refuses, Homan surges, and suddenly every blue-state capitol is on the phone asking how to make it stop.
New York isn't a problem to solve – it's a demonstration for every state still deciding which side of that call they want to be on.
The operational plan is already reviewed.
Kathy Hochul just handed Homan the one thing he needed most: a second example.
Sources:
- Jeff Poor, "Homan Vows More ICE Agents Than 'You've Ever Seen in New York City,'" Breitbart, June 8, 2026.
- Department of Homeland Security, "Sanctuary City NYC Sees a More Than 400% Spike in ICE Detainers," DHS.gov, July 23, 2025.
- U.S. Department of Justice, United States v. City of New York, DOJ.gov, 2025.
- Spectrum News, "Hochul Signs Measures to Limit ICE Cooperation, Restrict Mask Use by ICE Agents," May 29, 2026.
- CBS News, "Border Czar Says 1,000 Immigration Agents Have Left Minnesota," February 16, 2026.