White House border czar Tom Homan on Tuesday blamed New York Gov. Kathy Hochul for a promised surge of Immigration and Customs Enforcementofficers to New York City.

But Homan would not say when he expected that surge of ICE agents to happen, when questioned by reporters at the White House.

“You can expect more ICE agents to go to New York because Gov. [Kathy] Hochul signed legislation that ended our … agreements” that allowed the agency to delegate state and local law enforcement officers to perform immigration enforcement functions under ICE oversight, he said.

The agreements under ICE’s 287(g) program were used to identify and process removable immigrants who were in jail after being arrested by local authorities on unrelated charges.

“We’re going to surge resources in New York,” he said. “We have to.”

But Homan separately said on Chris Cuomo’s SiriusXM show that a surge of ICE agents to New York will not use the same tactics as in a prior surge of thousands of immigration agents in Minnesota, where two U.S. citizens were killed by federal agents in separate incidents in January amid weeks of tense clashes between residents and federal agents.

“You will not see a Minnesota. I will not let Minnesota happen,” Homan said Tuesday on that show.

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