Overview
- On Sunday Tom Homan told CNN he does not believe ICE is “in the business of terrorizing children” and said he would request an inquiry with the Department of Homeland Security into the Connecticut reports.
- Danbury’s mayor and a local advocacy group reported that roughly 50 people were detained during recent operations and said four parents were taken while school buses were present.
- DHS pushed back against those accounts, called claims that agents targeted parents at a bus stop false, and identified the man arrested in Danbury as Leonel Geovanny Morocho-Arteaga, 28.
- Homan defended the administration’s stepped-up removals, including flights for Haitians after the end of Temporary Protected Status, and said allegations of abusive treatment on deportation flights would be investigated even though he questioned their accuracy.
- The dispute traces back to DHS rescinding the Biden-era sensitive-locations guidance in January 2025 which restored ICE discretion to operate near schools and increases the likelihood of more local confrontations, heightened political attacks, and formal reviews of specific incidents.