Border czar Homan slams Hochul over NYC subway safety boast
President-elect Donald Trump’s border czar Tom Homan slammed New York Gov. Kathy Hochul for boasting on X that she had improved subway safety just hours after an illegal migrant allegedly burned a sleeping passenger to death on an F train.
“Governor Hochul, shame on you. There’s nothing you can say that’s going to make this right in New York,” Homan said on “Fox & Friends” Monday morning as he ripped Hochul for supporting sanctuary laws and welcoming “thousands of illegal aliens to her state.”
Hochul’s office touted a decrease in overall subway crime hours after the fatal fire.
“In March, I took action to make our subways safer for the millions of people who take the trains each day,” Hochul wrote on X Sunday afternoon with photos showing her in the transit system alongside law enforcement and riders.
“Since deploying the [New York National Guard] to support [the NYPD] and [MTA] safety efforts and adding cameras to all subway cars, crime is going down and ridership is going up.”
Sebastian Zapeta-Calil, 33, a Guatemalan migrant, was arrested Sunday for allegedly lighting the sleeping subway rider on fire on an idling F train at the Coney Island-Stillwell Avenue station before he watched her burn to death.
“Here’s another example of an illegal alien killing an American citizen. It’s almost a daily occurrence now, because a historic number of criminal aliens are walking the streets, because of this administration’s policy in sanctuary jurisdictions and lax immigration enforcement,” said Homan, who recently met with New York City Mayor Eric Adams to discuss the migration issue.
Zapeta sneaked into the county illegally after being deported in 2018— and then stayed in the New York City shelter system, multiple sources confirmed to The Post Monday.
Police commissioner Jessica Tisch called the attack “one of the most depraved crimes one person could possibly commit.”
“As the train pulled into the station, the suspect calmly walked up to the victim, who was in a seated position at the end of a subway car … and used what we believe to be a lighter to ignite the victim’s clothing, which became fully engulfed in a matter of seconds,” Tisch said at a press conference.
