'Make 'em famous!' MAGA border czar wants 'database' of ICE protesters to ruin their lives
President Donald Trump's border security adviser Tom Homan told Fox News's Laura Ingraham on Thursday evening that he wants the administration to build a "database" of any protesters who get arrested for obstructing Immigration and Customs Enforcement, so he can broadcast their names and faces to employers, schools, and everyone else he hopes might punish them for it.
"These people who want to say, follow ICE and film ICE, you know what, you can protest, you have that right," said Homan, who has previously threatened to arrest Democratic officials and has been accused of taking a $50,000 bribe from undercover federal agents. "But when you cross that line and we've proven it, if you interfere, impede, or assault an ICE officer, you will be prosecuted."
"One thing I'm pushing for right now, Laura, we're going to create a database," said Homan. "The people who are arrested for interference, impeding, and assault, we're going to make them famous. We're going to put their face on TV. We're going to let their employers and their neighborhoods and their schools know who these people are. Because as you say, these people, a lot of them say they're taking time off work to protest. I bet you a lot of them are calling in sick. I bet you a lot of those employers don't know what they're doing. We're going to make sure everybody knows who they are."
"They want to broadcast that ICE officer who was nearly killed all over the internet? We're going to broadcast every one of these people we arrest," Homan added.
Homan's words come as protests continue to explode over the fatal shooting of Renee Nicole Good by ICE in Minneapolis, which was caught in graphic detail by cell phone footage from multiple different angles. There is reportedly no plan by the Trump administration to hold the officer, Jonathan Ross, accountable for the shooting.
It also comes over broad public disapproval of ICE's tactic of wearing masks and concealing their identity while patrolling and making arrests, a practice that, combined with the indiscriminate use of force, has led even former Trump endorsing mega-podcaster Joe Rogan to compare them to the Gestapo.