Tom Homan's Big Ask: Credit for Not Committing Crimes

The White House counteroffer on ICE accountability is mostly a restatement of federal law. Renee Good is still dead. The agents who terrorize America are still masked and anonymous.

WASHINGTON — The letter landed in congressional inboxes this week under two signatures — Tom Homan, the Border Czar, and James Braid, the White House legislative director. It was dressed up in the language of concession, of good faith, of bipartisan seriousness. Five bullet points. Five promises.

Read them slowly.

The administration promises to expand body cameras — except when it doesn’t, because undercover officers are exempt, and nobody who watched masked federal agents gun down Renee Good in Minneapolis is going to feel better about a carve-out that swallows the rule.

The administration promises to limit enforcement at sensitive locations like hospitals and schools — except for national security, except for flight risks, except for public safety. Which is to say: except whenever they decide they don’t want to.

Then there’s the fifth bullet point. Save it. Frame it. The administration has solemnly promised that it will not deport American citizens.

That is already a crime. It is called …