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Jilly_in_VA

(12,452 posts)
Fri Jul 11, 2025, 07:56 PM Jul 11

Trump Border Czar Boasts ICE Can 'Briefly Detain' People Based On 'Physical Appearance'

President Donald Trump’s border czar Tom Homan went viral on Friday after practically boasting on TV about all the ways ICE agents and Border Patrol agents can go after suspected illegal immigrants.

Homan was being interviewed on Fox News about a potential ruling from a federal judge in Los Angeles over whether the Trump administration could be ordered to pause its ICE raids on immigrants.

He responded by claiming that immigration law enforcers don’t actually need “probable cause” to detain a possible suspect, despite it being a key part of the Constitution’s Fourth Amendment.

“People need to understand, ICE [Immigration and Customs Enforcement] officers and Border Patrol don’t need probable cause to walk up to somebody, briefly detain them, and question them,” Homan said. “They just go through the observations, get articulable facts based on their location, their occupation, their physical appearance, their actions.”

Homan also insisted that if his agents briefly detained someone, “it’s not probable cause. It’s reasonable suspicion.”

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/tom-homan-trump-border-czar-claims-ice-can-detain-based-on-looks_n_68715e1de4b00de383c1028a

If I said what I really wish would happen to Reinhard Heydrich Homan, I'd probably get arrested myself.

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haele

(14,409 posts)
2. He looks like a drunk and serial assaulter.
Fri Jul 11, 2025, 08:23 PM
Jul 11

I think he needs to be taken in and investigated.
Again and again.

4. There's a shady character living in the White House with orange skin Tommy, looks pretty suspect to me.
Fri Jul 11, 2025, 08:32 PM
Jul 11

Might want to check his papers.

Lasher

(29,061 posts)
5. ICE agents think they are the same as Border Patrol officers.
Sat Jul 12, 2025, 07:05 AM
Jul 12

They are not, and there's the rub.

Brainfodder

(7,532 posts)
6. Guy who looks like a "drunk" with a couple lines before laid out or shot in old spaghetti western?
Sat Jul 12, 2025, 07:36 AM
Jul 12

Afraid to look up his age and be wrong and older.

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