Tom Homan, the border czar appointed by President Donald Trump, is firmly dismissing claims that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents intend to target illegal aliens at polling stations during the midterm elections.
According to WND, Homan told Fox News Jacqui Heinrich on The Sunday Briefing, I want to put that to bed.
There is no plan to sweep polling places looking for illegal aliens.
He stressed that the narrative is being manufactured to stoke fear and undermine immigration enforcement.
I have not seen any operational plans or any discussions on any immigration-enforcement operations at polling places. This is another fear tactic.
Homan argued that the controversy is part of a broader campaign by the left to weaken border security and delegitimize ICE and President Trump.
This is another attack on ICE and this administration. They don't want ICE near the polling places, they don't want to vote for voter ID, they don't want observers. What do they got to hide to begin with? There is no plan for immigration-enforcement action at polling places. It's just another attempt to smear ICE and smear the president.
His comments follow a lawsuit filed by the city of Denver and a coalition of civil-rights groups seeking to block any ICE presence at the polls, invoking a Civil War-era law on troops at voting sites.
The specter of armed officers at polling places threatens the freedom of this upcoming election, the coalition claimed. It places voters in fear that they will be confronted by armed federal immigration enforcement officers if they choose to cast a ballot.
Homan countered that critics are inventing scenarios that do not reflect ICE practice or policy.
Homan told Heinrich: There is no sensitive-location policy.
I've made this challenge for two years. Give me one example, ONE, where ICE has arrested anybody at an elementary school, ICE has arrested anybody at a hospital, ICE has arrested anybody in a church. It hasn't happened. The only people that violated the sanctity of church was Don Lemon and that whole group.
We'll go where we gotta go to apprehend these people, but ICE are professionals. They try to do things in a professional manner. Now we're arresting people that may have went to church or may have went to the hospital, but we don't do operations at locations.
If you're a criminal alien, you're a national security threat, there is no sanctuary. But look at the past two years: not one instance of ICE operating at a sensitive location, to include polling locations.
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