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Border Czar Tom Homan was accused of "crashing out" after he complained about the "pathetic and disgusting" criticism of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents amid a surge of violence.
Homan spoke to reporters outside the White House on Monday, where he complained about having to have his security detail at mundane places, like the grocery store, because of heckling.
"We're enforcing the laws they wrote, and they appropriate us money to enforce. Now, I'll say it once again. If ICE these agents act inappropriately or illegally, they'll be held accountable, just like they were held accountable in Minnesota," Homan said. It comes after Homan refused to defend his predecessor, Kristi Noem, after shocking allegations against her.
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"All these agents are mom and dads, too. They don't hang their heart on a hook every day to do this job. And it's just not attacking ICE agents, it's attacking their spouses and children. And no one knows that better than me. I can't even go get a quart of milk at a grocery store without a security detail. Why? Because I'm enforcing laws in this country. It's pathetic and it's disgusting," he added.
Users on social media were quick to troll Homan for his bizarre tirade, with independent journalist Aaron Rupar writing on X, "big tough guy Tom Homan crashes out and huffs away from reporters after complaining about having to have security at the grocery store."
"Tough guy Homan melts down over grocery store security then storms away from reporters like a fragile snowflake," another user posted sarcastically.
"Who buys milk by the quart anymore anyway?" a third user joked, while another sarcastically joked, "maybe do the job correctly."
Homan’s comment came after he announced ICE officers will be required to record vehicle stops with at least one body camera following the deaths of two immigrants in Maine and Texas this month.
“They exonerate more law enforcement than they convict, and I want officers to wear body cameras because I want the American people to see what the officers saw when they took that action,” Homan said over the weekend on Fox & Friends.
In a separate interview, Homan claimed that money for body cameras was held up during the partial government shutdown earlier this year, which was triggered after Democrats refused to pass the budget for ICE after the killings of American citizens Renee Good and Alex Pretti by federal agents during anti-ICE protests.
“The cameras have been purchased right now,” Homan said. “They’re training the trainer in deploying the cameras nationwide.”
Homan comments come amid a surge in ICE violence
Homan’s recent comments also follow a surge in violence stemming from ICE immigration crackdowns. Two weeks ago, an ICE officer fatally shot 52-year-old Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, of Houston, after federal agents driving unmarked vehicles pursued him while he was taking his construction crew to a job site.
Similarly, earlier this week, an ICE agent shot 25-year-old Colombian immigrant Joan Sebastian Guerrero earlier this week as he was starting his shift as a food delivery driver. In Florida on Tuesday, a third man in roughly a week died during an encounter with immigration officers. This time, a 28-year-old man was killed after he was hit by a tractor-trailer while running from immigration and other federal officers, authorities said.
The incidents led the Trump administration to suspend most ICE vehicle stops. The suspension of vehicle stops allows room for exceptions when executing a criminal warrant or working with partner agencies, a person told The Associated Press during the initial suspension.
However, President Donald Trump quickly reversed that decision, writing on Truth Social, “we CANNOT give up one of I.C.E.’s most important and effective Crime Fighting tools, THE TRAFFIC STOP! Once we do, we are playing right into the criminal’s hands.”
The shootings come amid a Trump administration push to carry out its mass deportation agenda. During the five-day period at the end of June, ICE arrested more than 10,000 people.
The figures indicate that while the administration is no longer cracking down on individual cities, the arrests are surging. The administration’s enforcement efforts were widely condemned last winter after the killings of Alex Pretti and Renee Good in Minnesota.
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