Homan says physical appearance alone not enough to detain suspected illegal immigrants

“Let me be clear: Physical description can’t be the sole factor to give you reasonable suspicion,” Tom Homan told CNN on Sunday. “It’s articulable facts, with an ‘s.’ So appearance can be just one. For instance, if someone has an MS-13 tattoo on their face, that may be one factor to add to other factors to raise reasonable suspicion.”

Homan earlier this week told Fox News that ICE and other federal officials, including Border Patrol officers, do not need “probable cause to walk up to somebody, briefly detain them, and question them.”

“They just need totality of the circumstances, right? They just go through the observation, get our typical facts — based on the location, the occupation, their physical appearance, their actions,” he told that

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