Border czar Tom Homan is doubling down on his claim that the recent fatal shootings involving ICE officers would not have happened if the victims had just obeyed law enforcement.
“It comes down to one simple fact ― these people failed to comply with law enforcement,” he said while speaking to reporters outside of the White House on Monday about ICE’s mass arrests and deportations.
“All they had to do is simply comply with law enforcement,” Homan said. “If you don’t like what law enforcement did to you, then go to the courts, sue, call the ACLU. Do whatever you wanna do, but you should always comply with law enforcement. If they did, they’d be alive today.”
In the last two weeks, two men have been killed in their vehicles by ICE agents. Last week, Joan Sebastián Guerrero, a 25-year-old father from Colombia, was fatally shot by an ICE officer in Maine. The incident occurred just six days after ICE officers fatally shot Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a 52-year-old father of three and longtime Houston resident, in Texas.
Federal immigration officers have fatally shot at least 11 people since the start of President Donald Trump’s deportation crackdown, with the majority of these lethal encounters involving agents firing into moving vehicles.
