Border czar Tom Homan vowed Thursday that far-left groups funding and coordinating attacks on Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents and operations will face consequences.

“About the organization and the funding of the attacks on ICE, I’m not going to answer a lot about that because I’m not going to show our hand, but they’ll be held accountable. Justice is coming,” the border czar declared during a press conference in Minneapolis. 

Homan also decried the harsh rhetoric coming from Minnesota and across the country directed at ICE and other immigration law enforcement officers, pleading with everyone to tone it down. 

“I begged for the last two months on TV for the rhetoric to stop. I said in March — if the rhetoric doesn’t stop, there is gonna be bloodshed. And there has been. I wish I wasn’t right. I don’t want to see anybody die,” Homan said. 

The border czar, whom President Trump dispatched to Minnesota earlier this week, explained that if there was less hostility towards the feds, then the Trump administration would be able to draw down its presence in Minneapolis by an even larger amount than it is currently planning. 

Homan claimed that the forthcoming reduction in personnel in Minnesota is the result of discussions he’s had with top state officials, including Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Attorney General Keith Ellison. 

“Based on the discussions I’ve had with the governor and the AG, we can start drawing down those resources,” Homan said, noting that the feds will likely now be able to target criminal illegal immigrants “in a jail with much less people.”

“So the drawdown is going to happen based on these agreements, but the drawdown could happen even more if the hateful rhetoric and impediments stop.”

The border honcho had long called for access to local jails in Minnesota as a condition for reducing personnel on the ground. Homan did not specify how large the drawdown will be, but caveated that it will be “dependent upon cooperation” from local authorities and that there will be redeployment if cooperation stops. 

At the moment, there are roughly 3,000 ICE and Border Patrol officers in Minneapolis, Homan confirmed. That dwarfs the roughly 600-member local police force in Minneapolis. 

Homan, who vowed to stay “until the problem’s gone,” crowed that “we’ve made a lot of progress” since Trump sent him to the beleaguered city earlier this week.  

Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey had publicly railed against the Trump administration’s Operation Metro Surge in the city, alleging that the feds essentially wanted the local authorities to do their job for them on immigration enforcement. Homan underscored that’s not the case. 

“To be clear, we did not agree with Minnesota’s state and local officials that they would be involved in immigration enforcement,” Homan said. “I’m asking them to be cops working with the cops to help us take criminal aliens off the street.”

Under the new approach Homan outlined, the federal government will be more targeted in its operations and specifically take aim at criminal illegal immigrants, though no one in the US illegally is ever off the hook, according to the border czar. 

“If you’re in the country illegally, you’re never off the table,” Homan cautioned.”We are not surrendering our mission at all. We are just doing it smarter,” Homan added.