The Trump administration is reportedly preparing a major surge of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents into New York City, escalating a growing confrontation with Democrat Gov. Kathy Hochul over President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown.

Trump border czar Tom Homan revealed Monday that the administration has already drawn up an operational plan and warned Hochul before she signed legislation late last month restricting ICE activities and banning masked immigration agents in New York.

"You're going to see more ICE than you've ever seen in New York City, and it's coming," Homan said, according to Bloomberg. "I just reviewed an operational plan. I'm not going to tell you exactly when it's going to happen, but it's coming."

The planned deployment would mark one of the administration's most aggressive immigration enforcement efforts in the nation's largest city, where state and local leaders have frequently clashed with federal authorities over immigration policy.

Trump and Homan have repeatedly threatened to boost ICE operations in New York City but have not yet carried out the kind of large-scale enforcement actions seen in other Democrat-led jurisdictions.

Homan has argued that immigration agents can more safely arrest illegal immigrants while they are already in custody rather than attempting arrests in neighborhoods and public spaces.

Bloomberg reported that Homan said he privately warned Hochul that efforts to block ICE from taking custody of detainees would trigger a significant federal response.

The Trump border official reportedly told the governor he would flood New York City with ICE personnel if the state prevented agents from arresting individuals already being held by law enforcement.

The latest warning comes as protests and tensions continue at Delaney Hall, a federal immigrant detention facility in neighboring New Jersey, where demonstrators have violently clashed with federal immigration authorities over the Trump administration's expanded immigration enforcement efforts.

The facility has drawn protests from immigration activists and Democrat officials seeking to limit the administration's enforcement actions.

Federal authorities, however, have defended Delaney Hall as a critical asset in carrying out Trump's promise to secure the border and remove illegal immigrants from the country.

The dispute has created friction between the administration and Democrat leaders in New Jersey, who have challenged federal immigration policies in court and in public.