Border Czar Tom Homan turned heads during an interview on Sunday when he revealed who he and other immigration authorities are looking at for potential prosecutions in the future.
Speaking with Fox News host and former Utah Republican Congressman Jason Chaffetz on Sunday, Homan suggested that individuals and groups who are funding violent anti-ICE protests could also be subject to arrest, especially if they are providing weapons and other items that can harm immigration agents.
“We know a lot of these protesters are being paid,” Homan said. “Many of them [have] admitted to it. So yes, there’s a whole effort right now in identifying those who are funding these operations, those who fund the weapons that are being used.
“They’ll be held accountable too, to the highest standards of the law,” he continued. “They will be prosecuted too.”
He went on to emphasize that ICE agents are merely enforcing immigration laws that were duly passed by Congress and signed by presidents. “If you don’t like what ICE does, then go protest Congress,” Homan said. “We’re not making this stuff up.”
“What’s most insulting is you have members of Congress comparing ICE to Nazis and terrorists and racists,” Homan added. “Well, if they’re racist for enforcing the law, what’s that make them? They wrote the law.
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Homan has criticized members of Congress – Democrats, mostly — in the past who have denigrated ICE agents.
In July, he called on Democratic politicians to tone down their rhetoric against immigration officials following the shooting of a Texas police officer outside a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention center.
“The rhetoric against the men and women of ICE is skyrocketing, especially by members of Congress,” Homan told “America’s Newsroom” on Monday. “We have senators, we have congresspeople [who] compare ICE to the Nazis, compare ICE to racists, and it just continues. So the public thinks, well, if a member of Congress can attack ICE, why can’t we?”
The rhetoric “has to stop,” he warned, “or it’s a matter of time one of the ICE officers goes down or a criminal goes down. We’ve already seen an officer go down.”
The officer was shot in the neck near the Prairieland Detention Facility in Alvarado, Texas, authorities said. He was treated and released from a nearby medical facility.
The Department of Homeland Security reported that more than a dozen agitators slashed tires on federal vehicles and damaged security cameras at the ICE facility. This attack comes amid ongoing protests outside a DHS detention center in Portland, sparked by backlash against President Donald Trump’s immigration enforcement efforts.
Homan stated that attacks targeting ICE officers and federal agents involved in immigration enforcement have increased by nearly 700% compared to the same period last year.
Democratic Rep. Stephen Lynch of Massachusetts and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz faced criticism from Republicans in June after likening federal immigration operations to the Gestapo, the notorious secret police of Nazi Germany.
Homan urged blue state politicians to exercise greater responsibility in their criticism of immigration officials, pointing out that these officers have families as well and are merely doing the jobs they were hired and trained to do.
“We’re talking about life and death here. These men and women of ICE, the men and women of border patrol, they’re mothers and fathers too. They don’t hang their heart on a hook when they go to work,” he said.
The border czar also told protesters then that if they disagree with the country’s immigration laws, they should “go protest Congress.”
The attack on law enforcement came shortly after President Trump signed his $3.3 trillion “big, beautiful bill” into law on Friday. The legislation includes funding for 10,000 new ICE agents, among other border and immigration line items including finishing the border wall.