White House border czar Tom Homan said that previous comments were “taken out of context” and that federal immigration enforcement agents cannot detain people based on physical appearances alone.
In an interview on July 13 with CNN, Homan said that in some cases, an MS-13 tattoo or a similar gang tattoo “may be one factor to add to other factors to raise reasonable suspicion.”
“I want to be clear because my words were taken out of context,” he said, referring to comments that he made in a Fox News interview this past week. “Physical description cannot be the sole reason to detain and question somebody. That can’t be the sole reason to raise reasonable suspicion. It’s a myriad of factors.”…