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‘They Don’t Work With Us’: Tom Homan Defends Feds, And Not ‘Sanctuary’ Minnesota, Probing ICE Shooting

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Border czar Tom Homan questioned Sunday why Minnesota authorities should be involved in investigating an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent’s fatal shooting of a woman, arguing that they have thus far failed to cooperate with the Trump administration.

An ICE agent fatally shot Renee Good while carrying out an enforcement operation in Minneapolis on Jan. 7, prompting emotional reactions from Democratic Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota and Democratic Mayor Jacob Frey of Minneapolis. Homan told “Fox News Sunday” guest host Jacqui Heinrich that Walz and Frey’s “irritates” him after Heinrich mentioned Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s comments defending the agent’s actions.

“It is a federal crime to impede or interfere with an ICE officer. … we can see what’s happening throughout the country, I think it’s a funded, organized attack against ICE officers,” Homan said. “And what irritates me is, the left wants to play this game that ICE  they’re not law enforcement officers. They are federal law enforcement officers. Impeding them or interfering with them is a crime.”

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“No one would be arguing if we arrested people that interfere with DEA [Drug Enforcement Administration] arresting a drug dealer,” the border czar continued. “If someone stood in your way, that’s a crime, you’d be arrested. They normalize, the media is normalizing interference with ICE. It is a crime to impede ICE officers.”

Frey demanded ICE cease its operations in Minneapolis while raging during a Wednesday press conference, while Walz compared ICE to the Gestapo, the secret police of Nazi Germany, in a May commencement address for the University of Minnesota law school. Heinrich asked Homan if the refusal to collaborate with Minnesota authorities on the probe into the shooting was a “one-time decision.”

“They [local Minnesota authorities] don’t work with us and that’s one of the problems here,” Homan told Heinrich, pointing out that Minnesota is a “sanctuary” state. “It’s one of the reasons we are in the position we are in, in that city. Because law enforcement response has been sporadic at best. This is a sanctuary city. Let’s remember, why are we in the city right now? Because they are a sanctuary city that purposefully releases public safety threats back into the public. I just mentioned about all these cases. Child sex crimes, child sodomy, child rape. They release [them] back into the community. These are people we have to go look for.”

Homan then excoriated Democrats, whom he said were silent during the Biden administration, when authorities encountered millions of illegal immigrants at the U.S.-Mexico border, many of whom were released into the United States according to figures released by Customs and Border Protection (CBP).

“And who set the stage on this?” Homan asked. “So, all these people on the Democratic side and all these liberal people want to scream and yell about our law enforcement activities, they didn’t say a word when there’s an open border, they didn’t say a word when half a million children were smuggled into this country and lost track of 300,000, and they weren’t even looking for them.”

“President Trump and this administration has found 129,000,” the border czar added. “They were silent then. They were complicit on millions of people being released into the country, many of them criminals. They didn’t say a word and now all of a sudden, because we are trying to fix four years of an open border, now all of a sudden, they got an opinion.”