Tom Homan, President Trump’s appointed “border czar,” told viewers on The Big Weekend Show that he had warned political leaders the toxic rhetoric against Immigration and Customs Enforcement would lead to “bloodshed,” and he is now repeating that plea to tone down the dangerous language. Homan spoke plainly: these are fellow Americans who put on a vest and go to work protecting our communities, not political props to be demonized.
The warning came on the heels of a chilling July 4 ambush at the Prairieland ICE detention center in Alvarado, Texas, where a coordinated band of masked assailants opened fire and an Alvarado police officer was wounded while serving alongside federal officers. Federal authorities quickly launched a manhunt, issuing a Blue Alert and offering a reward as they pursued suspects allegedly tied to the attack.
What we are watching is not isolated or accidental. Federal court documents and reporting show more than a dozen suspects have been implicated in the Alvarado ambush and that charges include attempted murder of federal officers after a violent, premeditated assault on a detention facility. This is the kind of domestic terrorism that results when mobs are given moral cover by elites and the media.
Those incidents fit a disturbing pattern documented by the Department of Homeland Security, which has reported a dramatic spike in assaults against ICE officers since January — numbers that cannot be explained away as coincidence or “protests gone wrong.” Homan and other leaders at DHS have demanded strict enforcement: assaults on federal law enforcement aren’t political speech, they’re felonies, and the people who commit them should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
Homan didn’t mince words when he put blame where it belongs — on elected officials and media personalities who repeatedly vilify border agents, painting them as villains and comparing them to tyrants. If leaders continue to weaponize words and shield the lawbreakers who cheer them on, more Americans in uniform will be put in harm’s way; the time for sanctimonious virtue signaling is over and accountability must return to the public square.
Hardworking Americans should be outraged that our defenders are being targeted while the political class plays games. We need clear laws, vigorous prosecutions, and political leaders who choose to de-escalate rather than inflame — and until Washington acts, ordinary citizens must stand with the people who stand between us and chaos. Support our officers, demand consequences for violent actors, and stop the rhetoric that turns protests into ambushes.
