White House Border Czar Tom Homan said that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement will resume vehicle stops, underscoring that border enforcement will not be sidelined despite recent controversy.
According to the Daily Caller, the brief pause in vehicle stops followed two fatal shootings involving ICE agents, but President Donald Trump moved quickly to reverse that directive roughly a day after it was issued. While a broader review of ICE operations is underway, Homan told CNNs State of the Union that vehicle stops will proceed under new oversight measures designed to strengthen accountability without weakening enforcement.
We always evaluate training, Homan said, emphasizing that such reassessments are standard practice in policing and not an admission of systemic failure. Its something law enforcement does all the time. So I wouldnt say now that were evaluating some additional training that mistakes were made. We will see. Its all being reviewed. We will see where it lies.
CNN host Dana Bash pushed back, asserting that we have seen with our own eyes mistakes were made, deadly mistakes were made, and claiming there had been at least five such incidents. Homan, however, maintained that the administrations approach balances public safety with the rule of law, declining to concede broader fault before the review is complete.
Pressed on how a meaningful review could occur during a roughly one-day pause, Homan explained that ICE leadership had already implemented concrete changes that did not require a prolonged halt to operations. The acting director of ICE [David Venturella] did make some immediate changes. Right now, on all vehicles stops, theres at least one body camera on site to record the entire event, he said, adding, Journeymen agents are assigned to each stop. Its all under review. The trainings under review. The stops are under review.
So, the review hasnt stopped. We just havent stopped the vehicle stops because those changes have already been made. So were going to continue doing those stops. Changes have been made, Homan told Bash, signaling that the administration will not allow progressive pressure to paralyze immigration enforcement. When asked again to detail the reforms, he reiterated that acting ICE leadership had mandated body cameras as a central safeguard.
Weve got to make sure that on every vehicle stop [theres] at least one body camera on those vehicle stops so whether the officer did something right or did something wrong, whether the alien did something right or wrong, its on video, Homan said. And Im a big supporter of video cameras because I want the American people to see what that officer saw when he took whatever action they took.
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