Acting Immigration and Customs Enforcement Director Thomas Homan is disregarding the uproar over Donald Trump‘s immigration policy, suggesting the president’s critics in Congress don’t actually want to resolve the issue
Homan, spoke to Fox & Friends on Wednesday, with Steve Doocy started off by falsely claiming the child separation policy has “been on the books a long time.” (The White House started carrying out their zero-tolerance policy in April by choice.)
Homan dismissed the family separation outrage by citing the argument that the children at the border were already taken away by criminals and human traffickers. The ICE director who struggled yesterday when asked if the Trump Administration’s policy was “humane,” so Brian Kilmeade and Ainsley Earhardt gave Homan a couple of do-overs by asking him that question again.
“It is not inhumane,” Homan said, insisting that migrant children have been well cared and the current policy isn’t as harsh as the problems and dangers involved in illegally crossing the border. He also wrote off the outrage as “political” and argued that Trump is “right on point” by saying its up to Congress to change the country’s immigration laws, not himself.
“Bottom line is I don’t think Congress wants to fix it,” Homan said. “There is certain segment those on [Capitol Hill] want this to be issue…They don’
Homan continued on to say that “The American people need to understand you’re being fed a falsehood by many people in the media and the Hill.”
“Congress needs to sit down and do its job rather than going down to their dog and pony shows on the southwest border, rather than vilifying the men and women of ICE, rather than call us Nazis and racists, sit down, do your job and fix it.”
Watch above, via Fox News.
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