Overview

• Speaking at the White House, Tom Homan said he dislikes masks but considers them necessary because agents and their children have been doxxed.
• He said agents wear clear insignia and referenced Antifa’s use of masks while rejecting Democratic efforts to bar masking by immigration officers.
• Washington, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser said masked deployments have not worked and have eroded trust, calling the use of out-of-state National Guard troops inefficient.
• Homan asserted ICE operations have made Washington safer and argued Bowser should credit President Trump for that improvement.
• He confirmed discussions about using Naval Station Great Lakes near Chicago as a staging site for stepped-up enforcement and defended the Everglades detention facility after a judge declined to pause its closure order.