‘Based on Hate’: Tom Homan Tells Harris Faulkner Anti-ICE Rhetoric Spurred Dallas Shooter To ‘Take Action’

Border czar Tom Homan told Fox News host Harris Faulkner on Thursday that he feared continued rhetoric targeting United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) made it “a matter of time” until an agent was killed.

At least one person was killed during a shooting at the ICE office in Dallas on Wednesday, with the gunman also taking his own life. Faulkner asked Homan about the shooting, noting that he had warned about it in a previous appearance in July.

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“I’ve been doing this since 1984. I got over four decades doing this, and I’ve seen this movie before. I’ve never seen it this bad,” Homan told Faulker after she played the clip. “The rhetoric is what is causing all this hate, and it convinces that small percentage that hate ICE to take action. When you have a Congressman or someone that ran for Vice President of the United States comparing iICE to nazis, that gives some of these nuts, emboldens them to take action.”

“There’ve been three shootings in Texas alone. There was a gunman that showed up at a Border Patrol facility and started shooting at them,” Homan continued. “He picked the wrong facility; he picked a SWAT facility. Those officers ended up taking his life. Then there was a shooting south of Dallas where they attacked an ICE facility, one officer was shot in the neck. Then this latest incident. This is based on hate, hate that is being fueled by the media and members of Congress and governors and mayors. You played it, you played it on your show. We have got to stop.”

In Texas, there were two previous incidents where shots were fired at ICE