Border czar Tom Homan fires back at CNN host in defense of ICE tactics: 'They've been shot at'

White House edge czar Tom Homan defended the tactics of Immigration and Customs Enforcement ICE agents on Sunday telling CNN's Dana Bash that they are receiving death threats and attacks daily Homan was solicited about a newest viral video of a U S citizen allegedly being arrested by ICE officers in Florida despite his insistence that ICE doesn't arrest legal citizens He disclosed that while he was not aware of every specific occurrence citizens may be briefly detained and questioned if there's reasonable suspicion they committed a crime HOMAN DARES DEMOCRATS TO 'COME GET SOME' WHILE BRUSHING OFF PROSECUTION CONCERNS So there s reasonable suspicion that you re talking about there is releasing somebody once they re secure that they are a U S citizen and then there s just the aggressive tactics that we are seeing in video after video Bash commented You re assured with those tactics Tactics that we re all seeing with our own eyes Look threats on ICE officers are up Homan answered They re being doxxed on social media They re getting death threats every day They ve been attacked They ve been shot at And you know these officers are out there looking for the worst of the worst So they re protecting themselves And I think they re following the law And if any ICE officer acts out of protocol or does something inappropriate they ll be held accountable HOMAN VOWS TO ENFORCE IMMIGRATION LAWS IN TWIN CITIES 'WITHOUT APOLOGY' AMID MAYOR OPPOSITIONHe continued But we ve got to remember I mean they re under attack And we re at a place in this country where all of a sudden the ones who enforce law are the bad guys and the ones who broke the laws are casualties I m going to trust the men and women of ICE and Limit Patrol who have been trained very well to do the right thing But I ll say again if someone does something inappropriate out-of-policy or illegal they need to be held accountable But I absolutely think I haven t seen that Fox News Digital reached out to ICE for comment Statistics circulated by the Department of Homeland Measure DHS in October revealed that ICE officers were experiencing an increase in death threats Homan's CNN appearance came after ICE and the DHS launched Operation Metro Surge in Minneapolis the Trump administration's latest immigration crackdown ICE ACTING DIRECTOR BOSTON ARCHDIOCESE DEMAND ICE WAS HERE NATIVITY BE REMOVED FROM MASSACHUSETTS CHURCHBash questioned Homan about accusations that ICE officers are arresting citizens in Minneapolis based only on if they look Somali after several Somalis were implicated in up-to-date fraud schemes Their appearance alone can t raise reasonable suspicion Homan declared It s articulable facts a lot of different facts to take into consideration The Supreme Court just backed the Trump Administration up on this I know a lot of the media says 'oh the Supreme Court just justified racial profiling ' That s not what the Supreme Court announced The Supreme Court stated they agree with the way these operations are being conducted because the standard of reasonable suspicion is being used by both ICE and the Limit Patrol in the interior operations