Tom Homan says the man "tried to run an officer over" and that the men and women of ICE "are patriots"
Tom HomanWhite House border czar, speaking on Fox News' Saturday in America
Mediaite reported that White House border czar Tom Homan told Fox News the man "tried to run an officer over" with his car and did not comply with lawful orders, and blamed Gov. Kathy Hochul's and Mayor Zohran Mamdani's sanctuary policies. Homan said that if federal agents had had access to him when the NYPD first arrested him, none of this would have happened, and that the men and women of ICE are patriots.
“tried to run an officer over ... If we would have had access to him when he was originally arrested by NYPD, none of this would have happened ... The men and women of ICE are patriots.”
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Was ICE justified in shooting a man in a car in Marble Hill?
On October 8, 2026, an ICE officer shot a man in a car near Marble Hill Avenue and West 225th Street in Marble Hill, a neighborhood the NYPD placed in the Bronx and ABC News and The Intercept placed in upper Manhattan. DHS said ICE officers were conducting a targeted operation in the Bronx to arrest a man from the Dominican Republic with a prior grand larceny conviction and multiple prior arrests, and that an officer discharged his weapon during the incident. Mayor Zohran Mamdani said early reports indicated agents surrounded the man and his 5-year-old child in the car before firing multiple rounds. The NYPD said it was not involved and that the man was conscious at a hospital. NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch later said evidence at the scene indicates at least one ICE agent discharged seven rounds, striking the driver in the neck. At a press conference on October 9, ICE's Marcos Charles said the man accelerated into two ICE vehicles and toward other officers, and DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin said the agents feared for their lives. A federal judge later barred ICE from removing the man from the country or moving him outside New York and New Jersey while his habeas corpus petition proceeds.
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Mediaite report of October 10, 2026 on Homan's Fox News interview about the Marble Hill shooting.
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Homan spoke a day after DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin and ICE's Marcos Charles defended the officers at a news briefing at ICE headquarters.
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Mediaite reported that host Kayleigh McEnany then played a clip of Mayor Zohran Mamdani accusing ICE of terrorizing the city.
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The reference point is whether the ICE officer was justified in shooting the man in the car. Homan says the man tried to run an officer over with his car, says sanctuary policies are to blame for the confrontation and calls ICE's men and women patriots, which supports the officer's conduct as justified, so we labeled it Defended or excused. The closest competing label is Challenged the characterization, because he rebuts critics' account of the shooting; he goes on to defend the agents themselves, so it loses.
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“he'd be fine if ICE agents shoot into cars, shoot guns into vehicles not knowing who's inside, and could have killed a five-year-old child ... That's not how you conduct yourself. ICE is out of control.”Read statement
Blakeman, asked at the governor debate about ICE's tactics, says the shooting "never would have happened but for your sanctuary policy"
“the question that New Yorkers have to ask is what was this guy doing in New York in the first place? It's because Kathy Hochul has made us a sanctuary state. ... Kathy Hochul has taken that ability away from us. That's why things like this happen. ... it never would have happened but for your sanctuary policy.”Read statement
Former ICE official Scott Mechkowski says whether the man was "using his car as a weapon" decides the case
“A vehicle driven at an officer is a deadly weapon, and I taught officers to treat it that way. ... DHS hasn’t yet said what that officer saw in that moment. That question decides this case: was the man behind the wheel using his car as a weapon against an officer? The footage will answer it.”Read statement
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