{"id":18782,"date":"2026-07-27T12:06:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T07:06:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=18782"},"modified":"2026-07-27T12:06:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T07:06:17","slug":"tom-homan-admits-ice-agent-in-maine-killing-shouldnt-have-cleared-vetting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=18782","title":{"rendered":"Tom Homan Admits ICE Agent In Maine Killing Shouldn&#8217;t Have &#8216;Cleared Vetting&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script>\r\n  atOptions = {\r\n    'key' : '644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6',\r\n    'format' : 'iframe',\r\n    'height' : 90,\r\n    'width' : 728,\r\n    'params' : {}\r\n  };\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script src=\"https:\/\/www.highperformanceformat.com\/644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"post-body\">\n<p>Border czar <strong>Tom Homan<\/strong> admitted to CNN\u2019s <strong>Dana Bash<\/strong> that the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/media\/news\/ice-agent-who-killed-maine-man-reportedly-has-history-of-violent-behavior-you-should-have-your-fing-throats-cut\/\">Maine ICE agent<\/a> accused of prior abuse should not have \u201ccleared vetting,\u201d as he faces review for allegedly killing a Colombian national.<\/p>\n<p>Federal officials confirmed that 26-year-old <strong>Joan Sebastian Guerrero<\/strong> was not the intended target of the immigration enforcement operation in Biddeford, ME, after he was shot and killed during a traffic stop earlier this month. Guerrero\u2019s father told <em>The New York Times<\/em> that his son <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/07\/14\/us\/joan-sebastian-guerrero-maine-ice-shooting.html\">was in the U.S. \u201clegally\u201d<\/a> and authorized to work at the time he was killed.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday\u2019s <em>State of the Union,<\/em> Bash said, \u201cCourt documents reveal one of the ICE officers connected to the fatal shooting in Maine was accused of abuse by two ex wives. One of his ex-wives told my colleague <strong>Erin Burnett<\/strong> that she experienced severe domestic violence in her marriage and that he always displayed violent behavior, and even that if anything ever happened to her, he\u2019d be the one to look at. I should say he denied the allegations, but at one point, a judge ordered him to temporarily relinquish any firearms. Should someone with those issues be an ice agent?\u201d Bash asked Homan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo, if those those are facts, I don\u2019t think he should have ever cleared vetting,\u201d Homan answered. \u201cWhen they hire somebody, they put them through a vetting process and look at all that stuff. So, I know based on that information, that\u2019s part of the ongoing investigation. You know, did the vetting process fail? Was that information not available? Did they not know? So, there\u2019s a separate administrative investigation on what happened here. Did we have that information, did we not have information. But vetting process \u2014 If that was factual, he would have an almost impossible time to pass vetting.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bash asked, \u201cSo does that raise questions about ICE\u2019s vetting procedures, especially as it has in the past several months, ramped up its law enforcement officers who are around the country looking for undocumented immigrants?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell look, you know, ICE has about 30,000 employees. They all go through vetting. This is kind of a rare instance, but again, it\u2019s under review.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bash then focused on ICE training.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe know that that training is being reevaluated. If that is the case, that suggests that the training wasn\u2019t adequate for all of these months, as ice has been out in the country trying to find as many undocumented immigrants as possible to deport them, isn\u2019t that a concerning \u2014?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo, I disagree with that,\u201d Homan interjected. \u201cI disagree with that. Every law enforcement agency reassesses their training, every law enforcement either adds or changes to training curriculum.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added, \u201cSo, I wouldn\u2019t say now that we\u2019re evaluating some additional training that mistakes were made. We\u2019ll see.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell, we we\u2019ve seen with our own eyes mistakes were made \u2014 deadly mistakes were made,\u201d Bash said. \u201cYou know, at least at least five of them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Watch the clip above via CNN.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>New: The Mediaite One-Sheet &#8220;Newsletter of Newsletters&#8221;<\/strong><br \/>Your daily summary and analysis of what the many, many media newsletters are saying and reporting. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/subscribe\">Subscribe now!<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n!function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s){if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\nn.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;\nn.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\nt.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window,\ndocument,'script','https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><script async=\"async\" data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/pl30214220.effectivecpmnetwork.com\/9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<div id=\"container-9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\"><\/div>\r\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Border czar Tom Homan admitted to CNN\u2019s Dana Bash that the Maine ICE agent accused of prior abuse should not have \u201ccleared vetting,\u201d as he faces review for allegedly killing a Colombian national. 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