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Tom Homan Suggests ICE Agents Can Briefly Detain Individuals Based on Physical Appearance
https://aaronparnas.substack.com/p/news-tom-homan-suggests-ice-agents?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email#media-c64185e7-010a-478d-a5ee-d06f2c318d8fVideo at link
This morning on Fox News, Tom Homan, currently serving as Border Czar under President Donald Trump’s administration, made a legally dubious and deeply concerning claim about the power of immigration enforcement agents.
“People need to understand ICE officers and Border Patrol don't need probable cause to walk up to somebody, briefly detain them, and question them … based [in part] on their physical appearance,” Homan said.
This statement is both misleading and dangerous — and it’s simply not true under U.S. law. No officer of the law, including those with ICE or Border Patrol, can stop and detain someone solely because of how they look, sound, or dress. That is racial profiling, and it violates the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments of the U.S. Constitution.
Immigration enforcement agents need a legal justification to briefly detain someone — specifically, they must have a reasonable suspicion, based on specific facts, that a person is in violation of immigration laws. Skin color, clothing, language, or accent do not count as legitimate justification.
Homan’s comment, coming from a high-ranking federal official, dangerously distorts this legal standard. It suggests that ICE officers have more power than the law allows and encourages unconstitutional practices.
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It may well be a 'lost cause'. I don't care...
enforcement and removal operations in 2013.
By 2014, under the Obama administration, Homan began to argue that separating children from their caregivers would be an effective means of discouraging illegal border crossings.
The journalist Caitlin Dickerson describes him as the "intellectual father" of the policy, which he outlined years before it was adopted by the Trump administration. "Most parents don’t want to be separated", Homan told Dickerson. He argued that this fact made separation an effective tool for immigration enforcement: "I’d be lying to you if I didn’t think that would have an effect."
In 2015, Obama awarded him a Presidential Rank Award as a Distinguished Executive. The Washington Post article at the time stated, "Thomas Homan deports people. And he's really good at it."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Homan#Obama_administration_(2014%E2%80%932016)
By 2014, under the Obama administration, Homan began to argue that separating children from their caregivers would be an effective means of discouraging illegal border crossings.
The journalist Caitlin Dickerson describes him as the "intellectual father" of the policy, which he outlined years before it was adopted by the Trump administration. "Most parents don’t want to be separated", Homan told Dickerson. He argued that this fact made separation an effective tool for immigration enforcement: "I’d be lying to you if I didn’t think that would have an effect."
In 2015, Obama awarded him a Presidential Rank Award as a Distinguished Executive. The Washington Post article at the time stated, "Thomas Homan deports people. And he's really good at it."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Homan#Obama_administration_(2014%E2%80%932016)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2016/04/25/meet-the-man-the-white-house-has-honored-for-deporting-illegal-immigrants/
https://archive.ph/YaQFC
Homan is the Washington bureaucrat in charge of rounding up, detaining and kicking illegal immigrants out of the country. As Americans fight over whether the next president should build a wall on the Mexico border to keep migrants out or protect millions of them from deportation, Homan is actually hunting undocumented immigrants down right now, setting strategy for 8,000 officers on the front lines.
He was honored last week with the government’s highest civil service award, bestowed on federal leaders whose work gets “extraordinary” results. According to his bosses at the Department of Homeland Security, not only did Homan successfully handle an unexpected surge of unaccompanied children and families who have streamed here from Central America across the Southwest border, but last year his operations set records for the share of illegal immigrants expelled from the U.S. who had criminal records.
Many of President Obama’s immigration policies have been unpopular with immigration advocates who say he has not done enough to overhaul a system that relies on deportations. But Homeland Security officials were intent on plugging Homan’s success.
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If Donald Trump or Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) gets to the White House, this former New York police officer could be the person charged with deporting approximately 11 million people who are in the United States illegally. Or he could delay kicking out about 5 million undocumented migrants whom the Obama administration has sought to allow to work here legally, making its case last week before the Supreme Court.
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His ugly face is enough to make one lose their lunch. 
