Homan Is A Cruel, Vindictive Asshole
Tom Homan was a small town police officer from upstate New York before joining what came to be known as ICE as a border patrol agent. In 2013, Obama appointed him executive associate director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement and he almost immediately began arguing that separating children from their parents would be an effective means of discouraging illegal border crossings. Once he took control of the government, Trump quickly appointed him Acting Director of ICE. He made a name for himself by implementing the family separation agenda and by stating that politicians who support sanctuary cities should be charged with crimes. He was never confirmed and eventually retired from Ice, joined the Heritage Foundation and got busy writing the immigration parts of Project 2025. This past July, he said if “Trump comes back in January, I'll be on his heels coming back, and I will run the biggest deportation force this country has ever seen. They ain't seen shit yet. Wait until 2025.” On Sunday, Trump announced he would be appointed “border czar… in charge of all deportation of illegal aliens back to their country of origin.” The position does not require Senate confirmation.
Yesterday, on Fox & Friends, Homan announced “This is the biggest national security vulnerability this nation has seen since 9/11 and we have to fix it, promising “a hell of a lot more” deportations than in Señor T’s first term.
Emmy Martin reported that “Homan honed in on so-called sanctuary cities Monday, calling on state leaders to work with the Trump administration’s future attempts to crack down on ‘sanctuaries for criminals… I have seen some of these Democratic governors say they are going to stand in the way. They are going to make it hard for us,’ he said. ‘Well, a suggestion. If you are not going to help us, get the hell out of the way. If we can't get assistance in New York City, we may have to double the number of agents we send to New York City. We are going to do the job. We are going to do the job without you or with you.’”
On Fox yesterday he claimed that “retired members of the military also told him they wanted to ‘volunteer to help this president secure the border and do this deportation operation.’” Shares in prison companies, Geo Group and CoreCivic soared yesterday. One of the things that worries me is as private detention facilities expand to accommodate Trump’s plans, it will blur the line between justice and profit, creating financial incentives to detain more individuals, even those without criminal records.
If Homan sticks to deporting actual criminals, his policies could be quite popular. The problem, of course is that he and Trump define anyone in America without a green card or proof of citizenship as a criminal. The implications are broad, affecting not only undocumented immigrants but also people who are legally present under Temporary Protected Status, including, for example, Haitians, Venezuelans, Nepalis and Syrians and others granted TPS because they face severe risks— such as violence, natural disasters, or political instability— in their home countries. Trump backs terminating TPS designations and under his agenda, people who have lived, worked, and raised families here for years— contributing significantly to local economies— could be uprooted and deported to countries in crisis.
During Trump’s first term, Homan’s enthusiasm for family separations wasn’t just a policy stance; it reflected his conviction that harsh punitive measures would serve as effective deterrents, a philosophy now embedded in Project 2025. This plan includes expanding detention facilities, expediting deportations, and enlisting law enforcement and, potentially, private contractors to manage what he refers to as an unprecedented “deportation force.” His casual mention of military veterans “volunteering” to assist in deportation efforts hints at a militarized approach that is sure to erode civil rights around the use of force. And his threat to “double the number of agents” in resistant cities like New York represents an ominous move toward an authoritarian federal approach, further escalating tensions between federal and local governments over immigration enforcement.
Homan would do well to reflect on what happened* to Joachim von Ribbentrop, Wilhelm Keitel, Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Alfred Rosenberg, Hans Frank, Arthur Seyss-Inquart, Fritz Sauckel, Julius Streicher, Alfred Jodl and others who faithfully served Hitler & carried out his wishes. There's always an after.
*Hint: It involved a rope... and was quite permanent.
He looks like a Nazi right out of central casting. Shame on Obama for giving him a foo in the door even if Trump would have eventually found him and given him the job anyway.