President Donald Trump’s “Border Tsar” Tom Homan is increasingly becoming the face of the White House’s massive deportation efforts as the former acting ice chief moved to a more open political role.
The politicization was fully demonstrated Saturday night, when Homan gave a speech at Trump’s U.S. conference, run by Trump’s unanimous conservative youth group, a close ally of the president’s son, Charlie Kirk.
Homan’s distinctive rude character has been fully demonstrated as Heckler faces him shortly after he began speaking.
“Do you want some? Come and find some,” Homan told the guy. “I’m tired of it. …Tom Homan didn’t go anywhere. Tom Homan didn’t shut up.
Homan continued: “This guy didn’t know how to serve this country.
Tom Homan takes public role in White House Deportation Cheerleaders (CNN)
Homan was accompanied by Homan cracked: “This guy lives in his mother’s basement. The only thing that surprised me was…no purple hair and nose ring.
“Get out of here, you failed.”
Hours later, Homan was an embattled government defense program on Sunday’s interview tour, where he carried out damage control to recover a seemingly obvious but shocking acknowledgement that ice sheet agents and other immigration law enforcement officers were racisting as they carried out mass attacks nationwide.
Homan had previously told Fox News on Friday that ice sheet agents “have no need to be able to walk to someone, briefly detain them and question them based on their appearance.”
Without explaining what his “appearance” means, it almost confirmed that Homan directed agents to “short-term detention” (or more) people they believed were Hispanic or Latino descent. This description matches the textbook case for race profiles.
Speech with CNN’s Dana Bash on Sunday internationalityHoman is about the face.
“Let me clearly say that physical description is not the only factor that gives you reasonable doubt,” he told CNN.
“The physical description is not the only reason to detain and question someone. It is not the only reason to cause reasonable doubt. It is countless factors.”
He also stressed that “Every ice officer is trained on the Fourth Amendment every six months”, referring to the training that guides federal law enforcement officers in deciding whether a legal decision is made. But Homan also acknowledged that in “many” cases, ice made “collateral arrests” for U.S. citizens.
Homan’s verbal swipe is a history of the official title of “Czar” as White House officials traces back to informal terms used by the FDR – which has become an obvious favorite in Trump’s defense of his massive deportation program on the Media Tour.
That honor at least places Homan in a position once occupied by White House advisers Stephen Miller and Kristi Noem, who, as head of the Department of Homeland Security, finds himself facing questions about the government’s plans for gastrointestinal diseases rescue agencies.
It’s also a convenient moment for the president, who is a major influence among senior members of the judicial department team, a powerful figure surrounding Jeffrey Epstein’s ongoing secrecy and the powerful figure connected to the pedophile billionaire financier before his death in 2019.
For the “tsar,” this means defending the most controversial aspect of the presidential policy. It was obviously easy for Homan, who advocated the use of family separation as a deterrent to illegal transit when he was in the Obama administration as executive deputy director of ICE and executive deputy director of the dismissal.
In an interview with Politico on Thursday, Homan defended on a new aspect of policy: The raid on the farm (especially the West) is a sector of the U.S. economy that relies heavily on seasonal workers, many of whom have no records.
Homan told Politico that the government will not provide “amnesty” for undocumented farm workers captured in the attacks of farm workers’ communities.
“No one hires illegal aliens,” Homan told the news outlet. “They hire them because they can work harder, pay less, and weaken competition with U.S. citizens employees.
He insisted: “Many illegal foreigners do not pay taxes. They pay tables. Employers do not pay employee taxes, they do not pay unemployment insurance. So they are cheating on the system.”
Despite Homan’s claims, undocumented immigrants account for a large part of the U.S. federal and state tax base.
According to the Institute for Economic and Tax Policy, among the 40 states, undocumented immigrants account for a larger share of the tax base than the richest 1% of households.
