'Border Czar' Gives Appalling Response After 75-Year-Old Man Dies In ICE Custody

Trump's 'border czar' Tom Homan took a leaf out of Joni Ernst's "We're all going to die" playbook after a reporter asked him to respond to reports of 75-year-old Cuban national Isidro Perez, who died while in ICE custody on June 26. Perez resided in the United States for nearly 60 years and was the twelfth person to die in ICE custody this fiscal year.

"There are reports of a 75-year-old Cuban national who died in ICE custody," a reporter said. "He had lived in the United States for 60 years. He was being held in ICE detention in Florida. Is there anything you can tell us about that?"

"I'm not aware of that," Homan said. "I mean, people die in ICE custody. People die in county jails. People die in state prisons."

"I mean, if you look at, you know, when I was ICE director and we drilled down that, the question should be how many lives does ICE save, because when they go into detention, we find many with diseases and stuff that we deal with right away to prevent death," he continued.

"So I'm not aware of that specific case, but I'll say this," Homan said. "People can argue with me all they want, but the facts are the facts. I think the politicians in New Jersey found this out, that we have the highest detention standards in the industry."

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