The brave agents in Border Patrol and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) continue trying to do their difficult jobs in the face of much leftist agitation and violence, something that makes an already dangerous and hard job all the more so.
As such, Trump Administration Border Czar Tom Homan has demanded that Pam Bondi’s Department of Justice get to work and start prosecuting those who are getting in the way of his brave agents as they go about their jobs.
Such is what Mr. Homan argued when he appeared on Fox News Channel’s “Ingraham Angle” on Tuesday, March 17, saying that the DOJ and other prosecutorial agencies and departments have not been “doing enough” to charge and go after those who are impeding ICE agents.
He added that such incidents, where ICE agents are attacked or impeded, need to be met with a zero-tolerance policy, so the administration sends a message and dissuades lefitsts from acting in such manner in the future, or just takes them off the streets, which would make their work far easier moving forward.
Homan’s comments came when FNC host Laura Ingraham directly asked him if enough is being done to hold the wrongdoers accountable, based on what happened in Minnesota and elsewhere. She began, “Do you think, right now, we are doing enough to arrest and prosecute those who are impeding ICE?”
Continuing, she said, describing the leftist playbook for obstructing ICE, “Because they think they have the playbook down pat, Tom. They do what they did in Minnesota, and, eventually, ICE will pull back. They make a scene, and, eventually, the deportations will slow, at least a little bit. To me, these people have to do real time or this is going to continue.”
Responding, Homan said that the DOJ is not doing enough to crack down on the wrongdoers, and that a zero-tolerance policy is clearly justified, appropriate, and needed here. He began by noting that the DOJ and others have not been doing enough, telling Ingraham, “You’re right. And, no, we’re not doing enough.”
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Continuing, he argued that zero tolerance policy needs to be instituted so that the proper message is sent. He said, “There needs to be zero tolerance on anybody impeding a law enforcement officer. We need DOJ to really step up on this and to focus on this, because we’ve got to send a message.”
He then commented on the fact that sending the clear message that obstructing, impeding, or assaulting ICE officers would be met with stern reprisals would largely fix the issue, saying, “When they start seeing consequences, when they start going to prison for doing stuff like that…”
Further, he commented on the fact that their blocking ICE puts communities generally more at risk, saying, “because not only are they putting the ICE officer’s life in danger, they’re putting the community in danger, because the child rapist that we couldn’t arrest for a month later, how many little kids did he rape in that month that he was walking around?”
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