FILE PHOTO: U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem holds a press conference, in Los Angeles, California, U.S., June 12, 2025. REUTERS/Aude Guerrucci/File Photo
Two federal agencies under President Donald Trump are pointing fingers at each other after another major arrest flub.
The Miami Herald's David Goodhue broke a story this week of a U.S. citizen being pulled from a car and detained. The woman was driving her boyfriend's car, and since he is an undocumented immigrant, they were after him.
When they discovered it was a female driver of the vehicle, they still pulled her from the vehicle, sobbing and screaming, "I'm a U.S. citizen, please help me."
It was only after the violent incident that they looked at her driver's license and confirmed she was a citizen.
Speaking to MS NOW's "Morning Joe" about his report, Goodhue revealed that he received personal calls from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, which blamed U.S. Customs and Border Protection for the mistake.
"ICE did call me. This operation was not ICE," he said. "They wanted to let us know that this was a border patrol and Customs and Border Protection. It gets very confusing, as you all know, that they're all under the Homeland Security umbrella. But ICE went out of their way to call us and say this was not them."
"Oh," a shocked Mika Brzezinski commented.
Jonathan Lemire cited a report in The Atlantic that border patrol has taken over a lot of the raids recently instead of ICE.
"Okay. So, ICE and border patrol are conducting raids like this with masked people," Brzezinski followed.
"They're trying to distance themselves from it," commented host Ali Vitali.
"Oh! This one wasn't ours!" joked Brzezinski. "I mean, wow."
Goodhue said that he was tipped off that they were doing these raids about 40 miles from where he is based. So, he drove to Key Largo and began watching the activity.
He added that ICE and CBP have been hunting people down in the Florida Keys "for a while now."