This was a good summary of recent ICE killings…
Tom Homan went on Fox News Wednesday night and warned there will be more "bloodshed" unless Democrats "shut their mouth" and let ICE work, one day after Trump's own Homeland Security Secretary put it in writing that ICE officers should stop pulling people over.
Here is the sequence.
On Monday in Biddeford, Maine, ICE officers shot and killed Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero, a 25-year-old delivery driver with a work permit and a young daughter. Law enforcement sources told CBS News he was not the man they were looking for.
Six days earlier in Houston, an officer killed Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, 52, a father of three who had been here 35 years, as he drove a work crew to a job site. DHS conceded he wasn't the target either. His van resembled the one they wanted.
By Tuesday, Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin had sent the order down. ICE officers opened their email and found instructions to pause vehicle stops immediately and prioritize other methods of enforcement.
That email is the whole ballgame. Trump's own department looked at what its officers were doing at car windows, wrote its conclusion down, and the conclusion was stop.
Then Steve Bannon's show lit up. Lawyer Mike Davis went on air and called Mullin a wimp, told him to quit if he wasn't up to the job.
The Atlantic reported the final straw came when Trump saw the pause criticized on cable news Wednesday morning.
He went to Truth Social: "we CANNOT give up one of I.C.E.'s most important and effective Crime Fighting tools, THE TRAFFIC STOP!"
The post was the policy. A White House official confirmed that the Truth Social message itself served as the reversal of the DHS memo.
There was no review, no meeting, no new guidance. The president watched cable news and typed, and federal law enforcement policy changed on contact.
The pause lasted about twenty-four hours.
So when Homan says the bloodshed continues until Democrats are quiet, hear what he is confessing. The bloodshed already stopped once. It stopped because the government's own people looked at the evidence and flinched. It restarted because the base thought flinching looked weak.
Guerrero's three-year-old daughter watched him die.
Homan says he's scared to death he'll be handing a folded flag to somebody's spouse. Two families buried men this month. Neither wore a badge. Neither was even the guy.
His whole theory is that politicians running their mouths is what puts bodies in the street. On that one point he's telling the truth. The words that sent those officers back to the car windows were typed at breakfast, in all caps, by the president.
