Donald Trump’s border chief, Tom Homan, got very angry outside the White House. He suddenly told reporters something surprising before walking away quickly.
Homan was talking about incidents in Minnesota and other places where ICE agents shot people.
He also mentioned the public’s call for federal law enforcement to wear body cameras after several ICE-related deaths, including cases in Maine and Texas this month.
Homan said, “All the mistakes they say happened in Minnesota—the mistakes they claim in Minnesota, a lot of them I don’t think were mistakes,” which surprised people watching.
He also said the people who were killed by ICE didn’t listen to instructions, which led to their deaths.
“It comes down to one simple fact—these people failed to comply with law enforcement …
all they had to do is comply. If they did, they’d be alive today,” Homan said.
Before leaving in a bad mood, he said he can’t even buy milk at a store without a security team, calling it “pathetic and disgusting.”
Commentators quickly reacted.
“Guessing many elected Republicans on the ‘26 ballot, including Susan Collins, won’t be happy that the official WH line on ICE killings is to blame the dead,” journalist Chuck Todd wrote on X.
“You mean like Ashli Babbitt?” Meidas Touch editor-in-chief Ron Filipkowski wrote on X.
“Alex Pretti had turned away and was not engaging when DHS agents still attacked and killed him,” David J.
Bier, immigration policy analyst at the Cato Institute Director of Immigration Studies, wrote on X.
“No mistakes.
Just horrific policy,” Duncan Jones, director of “Warcraft,” wrote on Bluesky.
Homan on people getting killed by ICE: "It comes down to one simple fact — these people failed to comply with law enforcement … all they had to do is comply. If they did, they'd be alive today." pic.twitter.com/uG87o0nIoh
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) July 20, 2026
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