ALBANY — Gov. Kathy Hochul warned President Trump’s border czar Tom Homan that she doesn’t want ICE to expand its presence in the Empire State during a high-stakes sit-down Friday.

The admonition — which Hochul recounted to reporters after the hour-long, closed-door chat with Homan in Albany – came amid a flurry of ICE-related controversies in New York and beyond.

“We do not want to see any large-scale detention centers or expansion of detention centers here in New York,” Hochul said, declining to reveal details of Homan’s side of the conversation.

Rumors had swirled ICE planned to build a massive detention center in the Hudson Valley, until the immigration agency shot them down. 

But escalating worries over the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement prompted Hochul to take concerns directly to the president in a recent White House meet, leading to the follow-up confab with Homan, the Democratic governor said.

Hochul’s office also released a statement revealing the governor made clear she won’t be asking for more ICE agents in New York.

“President Trump promised he would not engage in a federal immigration enforcement surge in New York unless we ask for it — and I made clear to Homan today that the request would never come,” the statement read.

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The governor said she and Homan also spoke specifically about how federal immigration agents pick up detainees at New York jails.

“Just a conversation about what happens after people have served their time in our prisons,” she said.

The pair’s closed-door powwow followed Homan’s meetings with Republican state Assembly members, as well as GOP gubernatorial candidate and Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman, on Thursday, sources said.

The czar’s meeting with Hochul arguably could be the most consequential as the governor seeks to wage war on Trump’s immigration agenda. 

Hochul, who is up for re-election in November, vowed to restrict ICE activity in New York after immigration agents killed two US citizens in Minneapolis earlier this year.

The governor maintained she wants to prohibit local facilities, such as those in Nassau County, from agreeing to hold inmates for immigration authorities. But Hochul said she did not specifically address that legislative proposal with Homan during their face-to-face.

State operations director Jacki Bray, a top aide to the governor who was in on the meeting, said Hochul is still pushing to keep ICE from signing local agreements despite receiving reassurances, including directly from Trump several weeks ago.

Hochul said she also demanded recourse for federal agents leaving a blind migrant on the streets of Buffalo to die last month.

The governor, who met with the man’s widow this past week, said she demanded that Homan get the feds to provide visas for family members of the refugee still living in Myanmar.

White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson struck a subdued tone when asked about Hochul’s meeting with Homan.

“As the Trump Administration has repeatedly stressed, we want to work with local leaders to keep their communities safe from dangerous, criminal illegal aliens,” she said. 

“The Administration, including Tom Homan, remains committed to having these conversations with anyone willing to have them. And we will continue acting on our mandate to enforce federal immigration law.”

Homan’s meeting with Republican lawmakers on Thursday revolved around technicalities in agreements, such as Nassau County’s, with ICE.

He also assured the GOP pols that federal immigration agents wouldn’t be repeating some of the “issues” that occurred in Minnesota in January, according to a source in the room.

Under pressure from lefty lawmakers ahead of state budget talks, Hochul has promised to pass legislation to enshrine statewide sanctuary policies after the controversial deaths of Alex Pretti and Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis. 

She also pushed a proposal to end existing agreements between local and federal law enforcement — a direct shot at Blakeman’s deal in Nassau County, in which ICE can use jail cells and local detectives directly cooperate with immigration officials.

ICE agents’ detainer requests — essentially, a heads-up that an immigrant will be released from jail — in the Big Apple more than doubled last year after Trump took office, the Queens Daily Eagle reported.

But officials in New York City — a sanctuary jurisdiction where the law limits cooperation with federal immigration authorities, except in violent or serious crimes — only honored a relative handful, according to the report.

A native of New York’s north country, Homan drew fury from Democratic lawmakers when he met with and spoke alongside Republicans in the state Capitol last year.

“New York state, you’ve got to change your sanctuary status and if you don’t, get out of the way. We’re going to do our job,” Homan said during last year’s appearance at the Capitol.

Mayor Zohran Mamdani, then a state assemblyman polling at just 8% in the Democratic mayoral primary race, used the opportunity to scream at Homan.

“How many more New Yorkers will you detain? How many more New Yorkers without charges? Do you believe in the First Amendment, Tom Homan?” Mamdani shouted as he was blocked by state troopers during the confrontation with the border czar in a Capitol hallway.

Mamdani met with his unlikely texting bud Trump in the White House last week, bringing along a list of people detained by immigration officials that he hoped would be set free.

The president agreed to release Columbia University student Elaina Aghayeva.

Hochul did not meet with Homan last year. She was out of town attending the funeral of former NAACP president Hazel Dukes.

— Additional reporting by Craig McCarthy