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(NewsNation) — Border czar Tom Homan said Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker's allegation that helium racially profiles individuals is "disgusting" and is asking for an apology.
Earlier Tuesday, Pritzker said Homan "long agone acknowledged helium was racially profiling" and that his bureau is "attacking our Latino communities" amid ICE's accrued beingness successful Chicago.
Homan told "The Hill" connected Tuesday evening that helium "will beryllium waiting for his apologies," denying helium has ever said that.
The borderline czar said Pritzker "miscontrued" what helium had antecedently stated.
Homan told NewsNation that an individual's quality is "one of the galore factors you consider," noting that "you can't apprehension idiosyncratic conscionable based connected appearance."
"Reasonable suspicion is based connected a multitude of facts that the officer, done his observations, takes into consideration, for instance, appearance. If you got idiosyncratic with MS-13 tattooed crossed their face, that is 1 origin retired of galore you person to consider, but not the lone factor," Homan said.
"That is what I said, ICE officers bash not racially profile. To him to accidental that it's disgusting connected each level, the ICE officers instrumentality a Fourth Amendment grooming each six months, they're well-trained."
Speaking to protests against the agency's accrued presence, Homan told NewsNation, "They tin protestation each they want, substance of fact, those streets are safer to protestation successful due to the fact that of what ICE has done since President Trump has taken backmost the White House."
