ICE Acting Director Thomas Homan (Screenshot)

“This president is letting them [ICE officers] do their job – which the last president did not do,” the acting director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) told Wolf Blitzer Tuesday.

In an appearance on CNN, Acting Director Thomas Homan corrected host Blitzer’s claims about the nation’s immigration laws and enforcers.

Homan debunked Blitzer’s claim that the separation of illegal alien families is not prompted by law. He also refuted Blitzer’s claim that ICE officers have been robbed of discretionary authority. Homan also objected to Blitzer’s assumption that officers’ attitudes had changed since Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ April announcement that immigration law would now be enforced.

When Blitzer declared that “most” illegal aliens who are caught and released show up for their court hearings, Homan noted that, last year, 40,000 of them did not – and are now “lost in society.”

Homan said that the parents who willfully choose to violate U.S. law are the ones who should be blamed for the separation from their children, because they choose to put their children in that situation.