Border czar Tom Homan tells NY sanctury city cops blasted for helping ICE that help is coming!

Border czar Tom Homan on Friday huddled with a Rochester police union to offer “his unwavering support” after some local cops were ripped by the “sanctuary city’’ for helping Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents at a traffic stop.“I stand with the officers of the Rochester, New York Police Department that answered the emergency assistance call from the U.S Border Patrol,’’ Homan tweeted after the meeting.“That is the way it should be.Law enforcement officers should not be abandoned in the time of need because of politics.“Sanctuary policies endanger our police and the public.

… Help is coming!” he vowed.Homan’s comments came as a growing number of critics decried the upstate New York city’s “criminal-coddling’’ mayor and police chief — who publicly condemned the officers rushing to aid federal agents asking for emergency police assistance during a traffic stop Monday.The cops responded to the scene, where an estimated eight people were in a van and were not immediately complying with the ICE workers.The officers helped get the people in the van out and put them in cuffs.It’s not clear why the van was being stopped.But Democratic Mayor Malik Evans later chastised the cops, saying, “City police officers do not help or participate in federal immigration activities.”Police Chief David Smith also admonished his Finest.

“From watching the body-worn camera footage, what is concerning to me is despite the fact that we were called, we went lights and sirens.“We are not to be handcuffing subjects” in those circumstances, he said.

“We are not to be doing pat frisks on subjects, and we are absolutely not going to be detaining them or putting them into our cars.”The local cop union, the Rochester Police Locust Club, tweeted around 2:40 p.m.Friday that its president and lawyer had “just met privately’’ with Homan and that the border chief “offered his unwavering support and encouragement to the men and women of...