Border Czar Tom Homan on Sunday addressed the fatal shooting involving an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer in Houston with claims that CBS News host Margaret Brennan said were "hard to substantiate."

Brennan said videos of the ICE van chasing Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, an undocumented immigrant, do not provide any indication that the vehicle is from a law enforcement agency. 

"I got to disagree with that. No, they have emergency lights. Officers have insignia, so when they get out of that car and approach the car, you can clearly see the law enforcement officers," Homan said during a Sunday appearance on CBS News's "Face the Nation." 

Brennan noted that "in the video that has been public, it's not a marked car." 

"I'm not saying it's a marked car, but they have emergency lights and sirens. So when they pull someone over, they want to activate the emergency lights. A lot of, lot of police departments — I'm in New York City right now, a lot of NYPD officers are driving unmarked vehicles, and — and that helps them find people that don't want to be found," Homan said.

The border czar said there would be an investigation but justified the fatal action taken by an ICE officer. 

Homan said Araujo and others killed by ICE "would be alive today if they simply complied with, with a vehicle stop by federal law enforcement."

"Just comply," he said, adding that those who believe they've been treated unfairly can sue later. 

Brennan said Araujo thought he was being robbed and not involved in an attempted traffic stop led by ICE officers. She pressed Homan on whether he'd seen the clip of the incident.

Homan said ICE officers "had emergency lights."

"They activate emergency lights, blue and light, you know, you know, in, in my vehicle, I drive where I'm with my security detail…" he said to Brennan.

She responded, "You've seen that on video? Because we haven't … in the videos that we've seen there aren't, and because there weren't body cameras, it is hard to substantiate some of what you are saying."

"I have not seen the videos…," Homan told Brennan. 

"Our vehicles are equipped with emergency lights. Now, if they didn't activate the lights — again, I haven't seen that video. If they didn't activate the lights, there's an issue there, right?" he added.

Homan continued, "Let me caveat that … They should have been equipped with lights and sirens. I do not know specifically if they activated those lights."

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