{"id":24186,"date":"2026-08-01T12:40:29","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T07:40:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=24186"},"modified":"2026-08-01T12:40:29","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T07:40:29","slug":"tom-homan-admits-that-dems-anti-ice-rhetoric-is-working","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=24186","title":{"rendered":"Tom Homan Admits That Dems&#8217; Anti-ICE Rhetoric Is Working"},"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><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Border Czar Tom Homan: Setting the Record Straight\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jMvL2sQHrpE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Border Czar <strong>Tom Homan<\/strong> confessed that Democrats are \u201cputting a dent in for sure\u201d on public opinion of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents with their anti-ICE rhetoric Friday on <em>The Dr. Phil Podcast.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Dr. <strong>Phil McGraw<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=jMvL2sQHrpE\">asked<\/a> Homan whether the attacks on ICE \u2014 reignited by two <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/media\/news\/just-in-one-dead-after-shooting-involving-ice-in-maine\/\">fatal shootings<\/a> by agents this month in operations where neither victim was the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/media\/news\/federal-agents-fatally-shot-man-after-mistakenly-believing-he-was-transporting-suspect-report\/\">intended target<\/a> \u2014 are \u201cpurely just a political ploy\u201d or if \u201cthere\u2019s something more behind this,\u201d also wondering how \u201cmorale\u201d within the agency might be impacted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think the left knows exactly what they\u2019re doing,\u201d Homan said. \u201cThe Democrats are trying to steal the narrative and make it a bad thing when it comes up to the midterms or the next election. So, they\u2019re attacking \u2014 it\u2019s all about attacking [President <strong>Donald<\/strong>] <strong>Trump<\/strong> and his legacy, and trying to turn the American people against his number one issue.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He continued:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Hey, look \u2014 they\u2019re making, they\u2019re putting a dent in it for sure, because, uh, I\u2019m reading a lot more stories about, you know, people\u2019s opinion on ICE and what we\u2019re doing, but the men and women of ICE are performing at the highest level ever. You know, Dr. Phil, we\u2019re taking hits from both sides, too. We\u2019ve got, you know, the hard, hard right saying we\u2019re not arresting enough. The left says we\u2019re arresting too many. So, I think ICE is doing just about the right thing.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>On Sunday, Homan <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/media\/news\/tom-homan-admits-to-cnn-that-ice-agent-in-maine-shooting-shouldnt-have-cleared-vetting-due-to-prior-allegations-of-abuse\/\">admitted<\/a> to CNN that an officer connected to one of the fatal July shootings should not have \u201ccleared vetting,\u201d as it\u2019s since come out that he was previously accused of abuse by two ex-wives.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/media\/tv\/cnns-kaitlan-collins-grills-trump-border-czar-over-no-body-cameras-during-fatal-ice-shootings-dont-you-see-that-to-be-extremely-urgent\/\">continued to blame<\/a> Democrats for the lack of funding for body cameras for ICE agents \u2014 no officer involved in either fatal shooting this month was wearing one \u2014 despite acknowledging the technology has already been bought.<\/p>\n<p>Watch the clip above on YouTube.<\/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 confessed that Democrats are \u201cputting a dent in for sure\u201d on public opinion of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents with their anti-ICE rhetoric Friday on The Dr. Phil Podcast.\u00a0 Dr. Phil McGraw asked Homan whether the attacks on ICE \u2014 reignited by two fatal shootings by agents this month in operations&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24187,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Screenshot-2026-07-31-at-1-39-36-PM-scaled.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-newsweek-trending"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24186\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}