Tom Homan Denies ICE Racially Profiles Targets: I’m An ‘Equal Opportunity Deporter’

Trump border czar Tom Homan denied accusations that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents racially profile the people they target.

Fox News’ Kayleigh McEnany played a clip on Saturday’s episode of Saturday in America of Democratic Socialists of America candidate Angie Nixon (D-FL), who’s running in the special election for U.S. Senate, discussing ICE and profiling.

Nixon told the Miami Community Newspapers Podcast, “We’re Black, [ICE is] gonna profile us, too.”

She continued, “They can’t tell the difference between an African-American or, you know, a Black American that is a descendant of slaves here in this country, or someone from Jamaica or Nigeria. Like, they are going to racially profile us, and they are going to escalate things, and they are going to shoot and kill us.”

McEnany asked Homan what he thought of Nixon’s assertion.

“That’s a ridiculous statement,” Homan said. “Look, we don’t racially profile. Everybody we talk to we have reasonable suspicion of aliens to talk to them. And to arrest them, we need probable cause. That’s what the law says and that’s we do. We don’t arrest people based on the color of their skin.”

Homan said he’s an “equal opportunity deporter.”

“I’m actually an equal opportunity deporter,” he said. “I deported people to 180 countries last year. So, I don’t care if you’re from Asia, you’re from Europe, or you’re from other countries. If you’re in the country illegally, you’ll be deported, regardless of the color of your skin.”

Homan then lamented about how hard so-called sanctuary cities make it for ICE agents to operate.

“This is why, Kayleigh, we’ve got so many ICE agents out there. This is why we flooded the zone of sanctuary cities. Because if they don’t let us take apprehension of the bad guy in the safety and security of the jail, right? So, they’re going to release him, now I’ve got to send a whole team of six or seven people to go look for this person in the community,” he said.

Homan continued:

So, what sanctuary cities do is not only protect, give sanctuary to criminals, it makes the community less safe because they’re releasing public safety threats back into the public, and they don’t have to. It puts our officers at greater risk. It puts the alien at greater risk. Cause anything can happen during a street arrest. So, this is why we’re flooding the zone, this is why we’re concentrating most of our resources in sanctuary cities, because we have to go into the community to find people we should have gotten in jail.

Watch above via Fox News.

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