{"id":936233,"date":"2026-07-15T09:03:24","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T09:03:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/936233\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T09:03:24","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T09:03:24","slug":"tom-homan-has-unhinged-response-to-latest-fatal-ice-shootings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/936233\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Homan Has Unhinged Response To Latest Fatal ICE Shootings"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tom Homan<\/a>, President Donald Trump<\/a>\u2019s border czar, attempted to pass the buck when asked why the ICE agents responsible for fatal shootings in Texas <\/a>and Maine<\/a> were not wearing body cameras. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe Democrats<\/a> shut down the Department of Homeland Security. I was up on the Hill as part of the negotiating team to reopen the government. And they wanted body cameras,\u201d Homan told reporters outside the White House on Tuesday. \u201cThere was $120 million in the budget they were holding up to buy those body cameras. Now, since the Big Beautiful Bill passed, now the reconciliation bill, the body cameras have been ordered; there\u2019s a deployment schedule on the books.\u201d <\/p>\n

Homan added that individual field offices will have to train their officers to use the body cameras. <\/p>\n

CNN<\/a>\u2019s chief White House correspondent Kaitlan Collins pressed Homan on the urgency for these body cameras to be deployed, given the two fatal shootings in recent weeks. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt is urgent,\u201d Homan said. \u201cAs soon as they had the funding, they bought them.\u201d <\/p>\n

Collins pointed out that it\u2019s been over two months since Congress appropriated $20 million for body cameras<\/a> to the Department of Homeland Security. But Homan again blamed the Democrats, saying the rollout would\u2019ve been faster if they hadn\u2019t shut down the government. <\/p>\n

Homeland Security expressed similar sentiments last week following the fatal shooting of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston. <\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cThe officers involved in the incident in Houston had not been issued body-worn cameras due to back-to-back Democrat shutdowns,\u201d the department told The Associated Press. <\/a><\/p>\n

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I asked border czar Tom Homan why ICE agents weren’t wearing body cameras in Maine or Texas, given Congress gave DHS $20 million for them back in April. pic.twitter.com\/QwlS90JoEL<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Kaitlan Collins (@kaitlancollins) July 14, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) echoed Homan\u2019s comments when asked about the issue Tuesday, claiming Homeland Security didn\u2019t have the body cameras due to the government shutdown. <\/p>\n

\u201cThey don\u2019t have them yet,\u201d Collins said on Tuesday.<\/a> \u201cThe orders were placed, but they couldn\u2019t place the orders when the government was shut down. That delayed the purchase and deployment of body-worn cameras.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s unclear how the partial government shutdown prevented Homeland Security from deploying body cameras despite the $20 million in funding and the $75 billion in supplemental funding ICE received<\/a> in the \u201cOne Big Beautiful Bill Act\u201d last year. <\/p>\n

At least nine people have been killed by immigration enforcement officers<\/a> since Trump began his mass deportation campaign. Two of those deaths occurred in the last week. <\/p>\n