White House border czar Tom Homan took on claims made by a liberal CNN host that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) purposefully tries to “terrorize” children, shooting holes all through the accusations during an interview on the left-leaning news network. Homan’s comments were made during a segment on State of the Union during a conversation with host Dana Bash.
According to Homan, ICE “is not in the business of terrorizing children,” he told Bash during the interview. The comment came in response to remarks made by Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) who claimed in a post on X that “ICE was arresting parents at school bus stops” in Danbury, Connecticut. Bash opened the segment by asking Homan if the claims were true.
“Senator Chris Murphy said ICE officers targeted parents at school bus stops this week. He said — quote — ‘In Danbury, they are just targeting parents sitting at school bus stops just to terrorize little kids,’” Bash went on to say before asking the border czar, “Are ICE officers detaining parents at school bus stops?” Homan’s response was perfect.
“ICE isn’t in the business of terrorizing children. That’s just political fire,” Homan replied. “ICE is out there enforcing [a] law that was enacted by Congress, then we arrest illegal aliens. Are some parents? I’m sure many are. But we’re not out there to terrorize children. We’re out there to look for illegal aliens with final orders of removal, those who overstayed, those that are criminals, and we’re out there looking for them and arresting them. ICE has no intention of terrorizing children.”
According to a report from The Daily Caller, Homan said that Murphy’s outrageous claim was “just a political statement made to enrage the American people” — what the kids call “ragebait” — and that statements like that are a “reason assaults against ICE officers are up over 9,000% — the threats — and no other law enforcement agency in the world has that percentage of increase in threats.”
“And I say most of it is based on hateful rhetoric and mischaracterization of what ICE does,” Homan said before bringing up an incident that occurred at the Delaney Hall detention facility located in New Jersey. “Delaney Hall was a big story. Everybody’s protesting up in Newark [in New Jersey] on Delaney Hall, said there was a hunger strike,” Homan continued.
“People weren’t eating at the cafeteria, but they’re eating in the commissary. And no one was missing medication. They said one person — one father — was arrested while buying diapers. No, he was arrested at a jail, and he was there for domestic violence charges,” the border czar explained. He then said that “all these false stories come out, and people buy off on them” but when the administration proves them fake “no one ever covers that.”
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“No one ever says, ‘OK, we were wrong. There actually wasn’t a hunger strike. There wasn’t actually mistreatment at that facility,’” Homan told Bash. Conservatives have pointed out that the only violence ICE has ever engaged in was when agents’ lives were threatened, such as in the case of Renee Nicole Good and Alex Pretti.
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