President Donald Trump’s “border czar” Tom Homan met with Republican lawmakers in Albany before headlining a news conference on GOP-sponsored bills that would repeal some of New York’s pro-immigrant policies and force the state to cooperate more with federal officials.

Several dozen Democrats gathered outside the door as Homan spoke with the press, and angrily confronted him and followed him down the hall as he exited while chomping on an apple.

Among the critics was Assemblymember Zohran Mamdani, a Queens Democrat running for mayor, who got within a foot or two of Homan and shouted: “Do you believe in the First Amendment, Tom Homan? What charges did you detain [Columbia activist] Mahmoud Khalil on?”

It was a sharp contrast with Homan's reception at City Hall, where Democratic Mayor Eric Adams has extended his cooperation with Trump's immigration crackdown as the administration moved to dismiss the federal corruption charges against him.