President Donald Trump’s border czar insists immigration officers are not conducting racial-profiling raids—but accepts tattoos and accents can be clues.
Appearing on Morning Joe, Tom Homan defended the Supreme Court decision that lifted a pause on the Trump administration’s mandate allowing immigration agents to conduct stops without “reasonable suspicion.”
The raids had been halted in July by a Biden-appointed federal judge in Los Angeles, after widespread allegations that officers were targeting seemingly random Hispanic individuals to meet deportation quotas.
“Racial profiling is not happening at all, and the Supreme Court has agreed with that,” Homan told hosts Jonathan Lemire and Mika Brzezinski.
But the border czar’s argument began to unravel when Lemire pressed him on what exac