Did the FBI Leak Deportation Raid Plans to a Gang? Border Czar Homan Thinks So

After an internal leak jeopardized a deportation mission, President Donald Trump’s border czar is alleging that bad actors within the FBI may have been responsible. Border czar and former U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) chief Tom Homan confirmed Monday night that he’s closer to identifying the individual who leaked information regarding an ICE raid in Aurora, Colorado to members of the Tren de Aragua (TDA) gang. The raid, carried out last week, initially targeted at least 100 TDA members, but ICE officers ultimately only arrested one, after the leak provided gang members a chance to evade ICE.

“We think it’s coming from inside. And we know the first leak in Aurora is under current investigation. We think we’ve identified that person,” Homan said in a Fox News interview. He explained that leaking information regarding ICE operations is more than just “giving the bad guys a heads-up so they can escape apprehension,” but is actually “putting officers’ lives at risk. It’s only a matter of time before we walk into a place where there’s going to be a bad guy who doesn’t care. He’s going to be sitting in wait to ambush an officer. This is not a game.”

Homan confirmed that “some of the information we’re receiving tends to lead toward the FBI” as the source of the leak. He added, “I talked to the deputy attorney general all this weekend. They’ve opened up a criminal investigation, and they have promised that not only will this person lose their job and lose their pension, they will go to jail.” U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi committed to prosecuting the individual responsible for the leak. “If anyone leaks anything, people don’t understand that it jeopardizes the lives of our great men and women in law enforcement,” she said in an interview Sunday. Bondi pledged, “If you leaked it, we will find out who you are, and we will come after you.”

U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem also named the famous federal law enforcement agency as a likely culprit after information regarding another ICE raid in Los Angeles was leaked. “The FBI is so corrupt. We will work with any and every agency to stop leaks and prosecute these crooked deep state agents to the fullest extent of the law,” Noem declared.

Shortly after Trump returned to the White House, a planned ICE raid in Chicago had to be rescheduled after information regarding the raid was leaked to The Wall Street Journal. Homan reported Monday that the leaks will not stop deportations. “I’m going to double the manpower in those sanctuary cities,” he warned, adding, “If we can’t get them in their homes, we’ll get them at their place of employment.” The border czar continued, “Sanctuary cities are a sanctuary for criminals, bottom line. So, we’re going to do everything we can to find them. Regardless of what it takes, [we’ve] got a strong president in the White House; he’s giving us all the authority we need. We’re coming.”

According to reports ICE has posted on social media, the agency made over 8,200 arrests from the time Trump returned to office and the end of January. The agency has not yet posted data for the month of February. Although he has explained that deportation numbers may seem low while ICE focuses its efforts on arresting violent illegal immigrants, Homan affirmed late last month that he intends to increase the number of daily arrests and deportations. “We’ve got to do more. We’ve got to open that aperture up, which we’re going to do,” he said at the time, adding, “And we need more deportations, a lot more deportations, and that’s what we are working on.”

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S.A. McCarthy

S.A. McCarthy serves as a news writer at The Washington Stand.

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