{"id":76585,"date":"2026-07-26T13:55:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T18:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/26\/trump-border-czar-says-ice-officer-in-maine-killing-should-not-have-cleared-vetting\/"},"modified":"2026-07-26T13:55:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T18:55:08","slug":"trump-border-czar-says-ice-officer-in-maine-killing-should-not-have-cleared-vetting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/26\/trump-border-czar-says-ice-officer-in-maine-killing-should-not-have-cleared-vetting\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump \u2018border czar\u2019 says ICE officer in Maine killing should not have cleared vetting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Homan comments on officer\u2019s eligibility to serve after reports that agent\u2019s two ex-wives had accused him of abuse<\/p>\n<p>Tom Homan, the Trump administration \u201cborder czar\u201d, on Sunday said he did not believe the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/ice-us-immigration-and-customs-enforcement\">ICE<\/a>) officer at the center of a recent fatal shooting in Maine \u201cshould have ever cleared vetting\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to CNN\u2019s State of the Union, Homan was asked by host Dana Bash about the officer\u2019s eligibility to serve following <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=fSWB945fv88\">reports<\/a> that two of his ex-wives had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kcra.com\/article\/ice-officer-maine-shooting-history-family-records\/72902656\">accused<\/a> him of abuse.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Associated Press contributed reporting<\/em><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/jul\/26\/trump-border-czar-ice-officer-maine-killing-vetting\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Homan comments on officer\u2019s eligibility to serve after reports that agent\u2019s two ex-wives had accused him of abuse Tom Homan, the Trump administration \u201cborder czar\u201d, on Sunday said he did not believe the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer at the center of a recent fatal shooting in Maine \u201cshould have ever cleared vetting\u201d. &#8230; <a title=\"Trump \u2018border czar\u2019 says ICE officer in Maine killing should not have cleared vetting\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/26\/trump-border-czar-says-ice-officer-in-maine-killing-should-not-have-cleared-vetting\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Trump \u2018border czar\u2019 says ICE officer in Maine killing should not have cleared vetting\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76585\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}