Jaw-dropping footage showed several residents rescuing one of the fugitives by lifting him down from the roof as he hung from a ledge of the house.
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Homan dares critics to name one case of ICE overreach, record supplies two before he can finish asking
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Start with the number: a House Republican report says Illinois and Chicago released more than 500 immigrants despite active ICE detainers, some of them violent offenders. That's the lenient-state story. So in the same month the agency is simultaneously too soft, by the GOP's own count, and too indiscriminate, by its own denial. Both filings exist. Both are DHS's.
On Sept. 18, Secretary Markwayne Mullin went after Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar's ad warning enforcement had "gone too far," calling it a crack in the party line. Six days after that, border czar Tom Homan told an audience at a Justice Department event that ICE is "not going anywhere," adding, "You can hate us all you want." Confident. Final. The kind of line you say when you think nobody's going to take you up on it.…
…(cont) Somebody did. On Oct. 2, pressed by CBS News on Salazar's criticism, Homan said it plainly: "Give me an example on when we went too far." A dare, on camera, twice-filed by the same wire.
And the record he was daring them to search — was sitting right there. A first-term congresswoman gave birth this week still fighting federal charges from a May 2025 dust-up outside the Delaney Hall ICE facility in Newark, a case the administration has kept open for seventeen months. That's one. The other ran the same day in the same paper: a seven-hour standoff in a New York neighborhood where Border Patrol's own targets ended up on a rooftop, and it was neighbors — not agents — who climbed up and carried one of them down by hand.
So the example Homan wanted didn't require research. It required reading this week's clips. A sitting member of Congress still in court over a protest arrest. A rooftop where the agency's enforcement needed the people it was enforcing against to finish the job safely. That's — that's not a gap in messaging, that's the operation. The dare wasn't rhetorical. It just assumed nobody would check the docket sitting open on the desk next to him.
“You don't dare somebody to find your mistakes in a week where your own press releases contradict each other — unless you think nobody reads past the quote. A congresswoman's still in court over an ICE facility protest and neighbors had to climb a roof to pull a Border Patrol target down with their own hands, and that's the answer, sitting in plain sight the same week he asked for one. The con isn't the denial, it's the confidence that the record won't be checked.”
“Look, the detainer numbers and the "worst of the worst" denial are two different documents addressing two different — okay, they're both about who ICE arrests, I see how that reads. And the congresswoman thing, that's an active federal case, the courts will sort out whether — I mean it's been seventeen months, that's not really "sorting out," that's just open. The rooftop standoff, that's local color, that's not policy, that's just what happens when — when the agency can't close its own operation without the neighborhood finishing it. Did I just say that? That's not what I meant to say.”
Earlier in this story
- DHS denies it only arrests criminals, ten days after insisting a criminal is a criminal. By Chip · the supper edition, 1 October 2026
The receipts
The UN torture rapporteur found ICE's planned electric shock gloves 'incompatible with the absolute prohibition of torture' ABC10 San Diego / UN Special Rapporteur finding, August 2026
Tom Homan on GOP criticism of ICE operations: "Give me an example on when we went too far"Trump border czar Tom Homan took issue with criticism from Republican Rep. María Elvira Salazar who said ICE operations have gone too far. "Give me an example on when we went too far," Homan told CBS News' Camilo Montoya-Galvez.
The first-term congressman is in the midst of a legal battle with the Trump administration stemming from a May 2025 dust-up outside the Delaney Hall ICE facility in Newark.
The UN torture rapporteur found ICE's planned electric shock gloves 'incompatible with the absolute prohibition of torture' ABC10 San Diego / UN Special Rapporteur finding, August 2026
Homan defends ICE crackdown: "Give me an example of where we went too far"As the Trump administration's crackdown on illegal immigration draws pushback from some GOP lawmakers, White House border czar Tom Homan told CBS News critics should "educate themselves."
· Homan says ICE isn’t ‘going anywhere’ amid immigration enforcement scrutiny from the morgue, 24 Sep 2026
· Homan: ICE isn’t ‘going anywhere’ amid immigration enforcement scrutiny from the morgue, 24 Sep 2026
· ICE has no plans to 'sweep polling locations' for noncitizens, Homan says from the morgue, 14 Sep 2026
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