Trump Border Czar Claims ICE Can Detain Based On Looks | EUROtoday

President Donald Trump’s border czar Tom Homan went viral on Friday after virtually boasting on TV about all of the methods ICE brokers and Border Patrol brokers can go after suspected unlawful immigrants.

Homan was being interviewed on Fox News a couple of potential ruling from a federal decide in Los Angeles over whether or not the Trump administration might be ordered to pause its ICE raids on immigrants.

He responded by claiming that immigration regulation enforcers don’t really want “probable cause” to detain a doable suspect, regardless of it being a key a part of the Constitution’s Fourth Amendment.

“People need to understand, ICE [Immigration and Customs Enforcement] officers and Border Patrol don’t need probable cause to walk up to somebody, briefly detain them, and question them,” Homan stated. “They just go through the observations, get articulable facts based on their location, their occupation, their physical appearance, their actions.”

Homan additionally insisted that if his brokers briefly detained somebody, “it’s not probable cause. It’s reasonable suspicion.”

HuffPost reached out to the ACLU for touch upon Homan’s declare, however nobody instantly responded.

During courtroom arguments concerning the potential ruling to pause ICE raids Thursday, immigrant advocates stated the brokers conducting the raids detain individuals with out warrants or possible trigger, and rely as a substitute on suspicion and other people’s race or ethnicity.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Jacob Bashyrov insisted that the Department of Homeland Security’s enforcement plan is strictly based mostly on correct proof and the “totality of the circumstances.”

However, Mohammad Tajsar, senior workers lawyer with the ACLU Foundation of Southern California, identified to U.S. District Judge Maame Ewusi-Mensah Frimpong that almost all immigration stops don’t occur to white individuals and are as a substitute “happening with people who appear Latino.”

The ACLU’s “Know Your Rights” web page on immigrants’ rights notes {that a} Border Patrol agent can’t detain an individual with out “reasonable suspicion” that the particular person is committing or has dedicated a violation of immigration regulation or federal regulation. In addition, immigration officers can’t arrest individuals with out “probable cause,” although they don’t want any suspicion to cease individuals at immigration checkpoints to ask transient questions “related to verifying immigration status.” They can even visually examine automobiles.

Homan’s feedback didn’t go over nicely on social media, the place many lawmakers and pundits referred to as him out, together with California Sen. Alex Padilla (D), who final month was forcibly faraway from Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s press convention concerning the immigration raids in Los Angeles.

“Under the Trump Administration, ICE and Border Patrol are being empowered to stop and question you based solely on how you look. No probable cause. No real reason. Just your ‘physical appearance,’” he stated. “That’s not justice — it’s profiling.”