Border Czar, DHS Secretary Suggest FBI Is Leaking Information About ICE Raids

White House border czar Tom Homan speaks to the press outside the West Wing of the White House in Washington on Feb. 6, 2025. Ting Shen/AFP via Getty Images

Tom Homan, the Trump administration’s border czar, and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem have suggested that recent leaks about Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids across the United States are being leaked by the FBI.

Homan said the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), which oversees ICE, are investigating the alleged leaks to the media. During an interview with Fox News on Monday evening, he said authorities believe they are “coming from inside” the FBI.

“Some of the information we are receiving tends to lead toward the FBI,” he told Fox News host Sean Hannity.

Homan said Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove told him that he “promised not only will this person lose their job and pension but they will go to jail,“ adding that the leaks about ICE raids targeting Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua are ”giving the bad guys a heads-up so they can escape apprehension.”

“It’s only a matter of time before we walk into a place where there’s going to be a bad guy who doesn’t care. He’s going to be sitting and waiting for the officers to show up and ambush them. This is not a game,“ he said, adding that ICE officers’ ”lives are“ being put ”at risk” due to the leaks.

Earlier in the week, Noem posted a Los Angeles Times article on social media platform X and then suggested that the FBI was leaking information to the media.

“We will work with any and every agency to stop leaks and prosecute these crooked deep state agents to the fullest extent of the law,” she wrote.

The article she referenced from the Los Angeles Times cited an alleged internal document and reported that ICE would partake in a major deportation operation targeting illegal immigrants in Los Angeles. Weeks before that, media outlets had reported that ICE would target Chicago, which was referenced by Homan in an interview last month with The Washington Post.

Homan did not provide any more information about the leaks or why he and other officials believe they are coming from the FBI.

The Epoch Times contacted the FBI’s national press office for comment on Wednesday but did not receive a response by publication time.

Over the past weekend, U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi told Fox News that the Department of Justice is going after potential leakers.

“If anyone leaks anything—people don’t understand that jeopardizes the lives of our great men and women in law enforcement, and if you leaked it, we will find out who you are, and we will come after you,” she said.

Leaking information to the media, she added, “very well could rise to the level of obstruction, and we will be looking at every single case where someone jeopardizes the lives of the great men and women in law enforcement, and you will be held accountable if you leak.”

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said last week that more than 8,000 people had been arrested in immigration enforcement actions since President Donald Trump took office on Jan. 20. Some have been deported, others are being held in federal prisons, and still others are being held at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.