Border czar Tom Homan fires back at CNN host in defense of ICE tactics: 'They've been shot at'
White House territory line czar Tom Homan defended the tactics of Immigration and Customs Enforcement ICE agents on Sunday telling CNN's Dana Bash that they are receiving death threats and attacks daily Homan was required about a current viral video of a U S citizen allegedly being arrested by ICE officers in Florida despite his insistence that ICE doesn't arrest legal citizens He stated that while he was not aware of every specific development citizens may be briefly detained and questioned if there's reasonable suspicion they committed a crime HOMAN DARES DEMOCRATS TO 'COME GET SOME' WHILE BRUSHING OFF PROSECUTION CONCERNS So there s reasonable suspicion that you re talking about there is releasing somebody once they re peaceful that they are a U S citizen and then there s just the aggressive tactics that we are seeing in video after video Bash declared You re calm with those tactics Tactics that we re all seeing with our own eyes Look threats on ICE officers are up Homan answered They re being doxxed on social media They re getting death threats every day They ve been attacked They ve been shot at And you know these officers are out there looking for the worst of the worst So they re protecting themselves And I think they re following the law And if any ICE officer acts out of initiative or does something inappropriate they ll be held accountable HOMAN VOWS TO ENFORCE IMMIGRATION LAWS IN TWIN CITIES 'WITHOUT APOLOGY' AMID MAYOR OPPOSITIONHe continued But we ve got to remember I mean they re under attack And we re at a place in this country where all of a sudden the ones who enforce law are the bad guys and the ones who broke the laws are casualties I m going to trust the men and women of ICE and Boundary Patrol who have been trained very well to do the right thing But I ll say again if someone does something inappropriate out-of-policy or illegal they need to be held accountable But I purely think I haven t seen that Fox News Digital reached out to ICE for comment Statistics circulated by the Department of Homeland Safeguard DHS in October exhibited that ICE officers were experiencing an increase in death threats Homan's CNN appearance came after ICE and the DHS launched Operation Metro Surge in Minneapolis the Trump administration's latest immigration crackdown ICE ACTING DIRECTOR BOSTON ARCHDIOCESE DEMAND ICE WAS HERE NATIVITY BE REMOVED FROM MASSACHUSETTS CHURCHBash required Homan about accusations that ICE officers are arresting citizens in Minneapolis based only on if they look Somali after several Somalis were implicated in new fraud schemes Their appearance alone can t raise reasonable suspicion Homan commented It s articulable facts a lot of different facts to take into consideration The Supreme Court just backed the Trump Administration up on this I know a lot of the media says 'oh the Supreme Court just justified racial profiling ' That s not what the Supreme Court revealed The Supreme Court announced they agree with the way these operations are being conducted because the standard of reasonable suspicion is being used by both ICE and the Demarcation Patrol in the interior operations
