Trump administration border czar Tom Homan issued a blunt challenge to Democrats after MSNBC host Jen Psaki suggested he should be targeted for congressional investigations if the left retakes the House.
During a segment with Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., Psaki openly floated the idea of a partisan hit list of Trump-era officials, naming Homan and Border Patrol Chief Greg Bovino among those she believed should be scrutinized. According to Fox News, Psaki asked Khanna, Is holding them to account at the top of your priority list? on The Briefing with Jen Psaki Friday.
Khanna replied, absolutely, and vowed that House Democrats would prioritize investigations into figures like Bovino and Homan, signaling yet another attempt to criminalize policy differences rather than debate them. Homan, appearing on Saturday in America, answered the threat with a terse rejoinder rooted in defiance: Come get some.
Homan, who served under President Donald Trump and has long urged lawmakers to stop demonizing Immigration and Customs Enforcement, directly rebuked Psaki and Khannas rhetoric as dangerous and dishonest.
Were just enforcing laws that Congress enacted. And for a member of Congress to say, We are going to investigate officers for enforcing laws that we wrote, thats just ridiculous, he said, underscoring that ICE agents are carrying out statutes passed by the very politicians now vilifying them.
While several Democratic leaders have spent years attacking the Trump administrations immigration enforcement policies, some have gone so far as to demand that ICE be dismantled altogether. That radical posture moved from rhetoric to reality this week, as a bill to abolish Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) was introduced in Congress, reflecting a broader progressive push to weaken border security and undermine the rule of law.
Homan warned that this kind of hostile political messaging is not just irresponsible but is actively fueling violence against federal officers on the ground. He singled out Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, arguing that their public statements have helped inflame tensions rather than calm them.
Rhetoric from the mayor and the governor emboldens that small percentage who go beyond protesting to criminal activity, he said, pointing to a climate in which agitators feel licensed to cross the line from dissent to assault. Both Frey and Walz have called for immigration enforcement efforts to be suspended in Minnesota, a move cheered by the activist left but viewed by many conservatives as an abdication of their duty to uphold federal law.
Their demands followed the shooting death of Minneapolis woman Renee Nicole Good by a federal immigration agent earlier this month, an incident that sparked weeks of protests across the city and was quickly weaponized by anti-ICE activists. Describing the resulting unrest, Homan said, They feel empowered to interfere, impede ICE officers, put their hands on ICE officers, throw weapons, throw stones and frozen water bottles at ICE officers. I begged the politicians to stop with hateful rhetoric.
The Department of Homeland Security reported on Jan. 8 that ICE officers have faced a more than 1,300% increase in reported assaults, a 3,200% rise in vehicular attacks and an 8,000% spike in death threats, numbers that underscore Homans warnings about the real-world cost of political grandstanding.
For those who believe in secure borders, respect for law enforcement and basic institutional sanity, the question now is whether elected officials will rein in the incendiary languageor continue to endanger the very officers tasked with carrying out the laws they themselves wrote.
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