MeidasTouch White House correspondent Luke Radel is speaking out after his confrontation with Trump border czar Tom Homan over the administration’s immigration enforcement went viral.
Radel confronted Homan outside the White House, pressing him about ICE arresting a father at a school bus stop in Bridgeport, Connecticut, while his teenage daughter was present.
“Should he be arrested in front of his 16-year-old daughter at the school bus stop?” Radel asked. Homan repeatedly responded that he was “not aware” of the incident, even as Radel pointed out that ICE itself had released a statement about the arrest.
Radel pressed Homan and did not let up. Did Homan consider a father who had lived in the United States for approximately 20 years, with no criminal history cited in their exchange, to be a significant national security threat?
Homan said no. But when Radel asked whether ICE would nevertheless remove him if agents found him, Homan responded, “Absolutely.”
Speaking afterward with MeidasTouch co-founder Ben Meiselas, Radel described what it was like confronting one of Trump’s most prominent immigration officials face-to-face.
Radel said Homan “didn’t offer much of a straight answer” to the specific examples he raised. According to Radel, the exchange ultimately exposed a much broader reality about the administration’s approach people it considers unlawfully present can still be targeted for removal even when they are not considered national security threats.
For Radel, however, the most revealing moment came at the very end.
“It was a three-minute clip, and I think his last three words were the most telling,” Radel told Meiselas.
Homan’s words, “So be it.”
Watch Ben Meiselas’ full conversation with Luke Radel above as he takes viewers behind the viral confrontation and explains what the exchange revealed about the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement.
