Tom Homan’s warning on The Ingraham Angle was not chest-beating — it was a blunt, necessary alarm from a man who’s spent his life protecting Americans. Homan told Laura Ingraham that the growing demonization of ICE and Border Patrol is already producing bloodshed and that he has been sounding the alarm for months. Hardworking Americans should listen to experienced law enforcement, not celebrities and activists who cheer on chaos.
The fears Homan raised became reality when Border Patrol agents were ambushed in Texas, leaving officers wounded and a suspect dead after opening fire on agents at an annex facility. That attack — and the string of confrontations at enforcement operations around the country — proves you can’t treat federal law enforcement like political props without consequences. The president and DHS have responded by giving agents broader authority to defend themselves in the face of violent mobs and planned ambushes, a common-sense move that the radical left immediately screamed about instead of addressing the violence.
Meanwhile, enforcement has spread into Democrat-run cities and even rural America, where ICE executed raids at sites like a New York dairy farm that left families and communities shaken. These operations are not about cruelty; they are about enforcing laws Congress passed and protecting public safety from repeat offenders and criminal networks hiding behind sanctuary policies. When local leaders refuse to cooperate, the federal government must step in to defend citizens who are sick of open-borders consequences landing on their streets and in their schools.
Progressive politicians and media figures who equate ICE with monsters have blood on their hands every time rhetoric fuels an attack on an agent who leaves home to do a dangerous job. Homan pointed out on national television that lawmakers comparing law enforcement to Nazis and cheering on obstructionists are not engaging in debate — they’re inciting violence. Conservatives who care about rule of law should call this out loudly: you cannot have a functioning country if you vilify the people who enforce its laws.
If city governments won’t protect federal officers, then local officials must be held accountable by voters who prize safety over virtue-signaling. New York’s mayor defended masked federal agents as a matter of officer safety, a reminder that even some local leaders recognize the real and rising threats to those doing the job. It’s past time for mayors and governors to stop posturing and start cooperating — Americans want safe neighborhoods, and that requires backing the men and women on the front lines.
This is a moment for patriots to stand with law enforcement, demand enforcement of existing immigration laws, and reject the woke moralizing that excuses violence against agents. Support for ICE and Border Patrol is not partisan cruelty; it is common-sense defense of the rule of law and the security of our communities. If Democrats cling to sanctuary fantasies while agents are being attacked, voters must remember who ran on safety and who chose to side with lawlessness.
