A masked U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent knocks on a car window on Jan. 12, 2026, in Minnesota. (Photo by Nicole Neri/Minnesota Reformer)
WASHINGTON — After two deadly shootings in Texas and Maine, U.S. immigration customs and law enforcement officers will wear “at least one body camera” during traffic stops, Tom Homan, the president’s border czar, said over the weekend.
Homan, whom President Donald Trump has tapped to lead his mass deportation campaign, said in a Sunday interview on Fox News that the acting ICE director has directed officers to wear body cameras during vehicle stops “whenever possible.”
This month, two immigrants – 25-year-old Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero and 52-year-old Lorenzo Salgado Araujo – were shot by ICE agents who stopped their vehicles. Neither man was initially a target of law enforcement, the Department of Homeland Security said.
While The Fox and Friends weekend program on SundayHoman said he supports body cameras because “they exonerate more law enforcement than they condemn.”
“I want officers to wear body cameras because I want the American people to see what the officers saw when they carried out this action,” Homan said.
Federal immigration officials shot 22 people and killed sixincluding three US citizens, during the second Trump administration. Most of the shootings resulted from traffic stops that officers continued, according to Homan.
After the back-to-back shootings of Salgado Araujo in Texas and Guerrero in Maine, DHS directed officers to pause vehicle stops, but Trump quickly reversed those plans.
Deadlock in Congress
Homan blamed Democrats for the lack of body cameras on immigration officers, citing the weeks-long shutdown of DHS. He also accused traffic stops of becoming more unsafe because of Democrats’ criticism of ICE.
“They are more dangerous now than ever because Democratic congressmen, Democratic mayors and governors have been preaching for the past year: ‘ICE is not a real law enforcement agency. ICE has no authority. Resist,'” he said.
After two U.S. citizens were killed by federal immigration agents in Minnesota in January, Democrats refused to approve funding for DHS unless restrictions were placed on ICE and Border Patrol agents, such as requiring body cameras.
Republicans in Congress last year used a special legislative maneuver to provide DHS with about $175 billion for immigration enforcement, detention and deportation without requiring Democratic support.
Republican lawmakers used the same move after the shutdown this year to fund $75 billion for ICE and Border Patrol through September 2029.
In a separate interview on CBS’ “Face the Nation Sunday,” Homan reiterated his support for body cameras for ICE officers and blamed Democrats for the lack of body cameras.
“I think body cameras are the way to go,” he said.
After the two killings in Minnesota in January, then-Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said DHS would provide body cameras to immigration agents.
