‘No safe haven’: Tom Homan shuts down CNN anchor over concerns about ICE raids in schools

Collins said, “What we had heard from immigration advocates is that this is going to provide a chilling effect to parents in the school drop off line, or something of that matter.”

Homan replied, “It shouldn't be a chilling effect unless your child is a terrorist or a public safety threat. If they are a public safety threat, national security threat, they should be chilled. They should be afraid, because we're looking for them.”

Collins responded, “Well, if their parent is here and they're an undocumented immigrant, I think was more of the argument that they were making.”

Homan retorted, “They're not off the table either, I mean if they're in a country illegally, they got a problem. I mean, it's not okay, look, it's not okay to enter this country illegally, it's a crime, and that's the way it's supposed to be. I wouldn't feel comfortable if I'm in Switzerland illegally. So, we're gonna enforce the laws of this country.”

He added, “National security threats and public safety threats have no safe haven in this country. And we'll go where we gotta go.”

Collins was asking the questions in response to a false report by Chicago Public Schools on Friday that ICE "showed up" at the Hamline Elementary School to conduct a raid and that teachers kept the agents out of the school. It was later revealed that it was US Secret Service agents, not immigration officers, who went to the school while investigating a threat.

An education reporter for the Chicago Tribune picked up the erroneous story, and wrote "CPS confirmed that ICE agents visited Hamline Elementary in Back of the Yards Friday in Chicago."

Democratic Illinois Governor JB Pritzker commented, using the false reporting as fact, saying, "After a week of Republicans sowing fear and chaos, the first reports of raids in Chicago are at an elementary school. Targeting children and separating families is cruel and un-American."