shut in the nuthouse

Emily Singer at Daily Kos:

President Donald Trump’s “border czar” Tom Homan is shamelessly defending the latest killings carried out by immigration agents, saying that those who were killed deserved it. Homan, who appeared angry about being asked questions about these killings, blamed people who criticize Immigration and Customs Enforcement for the executions, saying that their rhetoric about wanting to abolish the agency somehow “emboldened” the victims to not comply with agents’ demands. “You can attack the men and women of ICE all you want. It comes down to one simple fact: these people failed to comply with law enforcement,” Homan said Monday. “All they had to do was simply comply with law enforcement.” He concluded, “If they did, they’d be alive today.” This revisionist history is truly disturbing. First, many of the people who were killed were complying with immigration agents’ demands—or at least trying to, despite getting conflicting orders from the unqualified maniacs who have been hired to carry out Trump’s racist and cruel mass deportation efforts.

[...] “All the mistakes they say happened in Minnesota—the mistakes they claim in Minnesota—a lot of them were, I don’t think, mistakes,” Homan said, stumbling over his words. He then tried to blame Democrats for ICE agents refusing to wear body cameras—footage from which would likely prove that the Trump administration has been lying about these killings—even though ICE was given tens of millions of dollars to purchase the devices.