Thomas Homan Explained

Tom Homan
Office:Director of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement
Status:Acting
President:Donald Trump
Term Start:January 30, 2017
Term End:June 28, 2018
Birth Place:West Carthage, New York, U.S.
Education:Jefferson Community College, New York
State University of New York, Utica-Rome (BAS)

Thomas Douglas Homan[1] is an American former police officer and government official who served during the Trump Administration as Acting Director of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) from January 30, 2017 to June 29, 2018.[2] Within the Trump administration, he was among the most strident proponents of separating children from their parents as a means of deterring illegal entry into the country.[3] Since his retirement from government, he has been a Fox News contributor.[4]

Career

Homan was born in West Carthage, New York. He holds an associate degree in criminal justice from Jefferson Community College and a bachelor's degree from SUNY Polytechnic Institute.[5] He was a police officer in West Carthage, New York before joining what was then called the Immigration and Naturalization Service in 1984. He was a Border Patrol agent, investigator, and supervisor before being appointed by President Barack Obama to Executive Associate Director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement in 2013.[6]

By 2014, he had begun to argue that separating children from their parents would be an effective means of discouraging illegal border crossings. The journalist Caitlin Dickerson describes him as the "intellectual father" of the policy, which he outlined years before it was adopted by the Trump administration. “Most parents don’t want to be separated,” he told Dickerson. He argued that this fact made separation an effective tool for immigration enforcement: “I’d be lying to you if I didn’t think that would have an effect.”[7]

In 2015, President Obama gave him a Presidential Rank Award as a Distinguished Executive. A Washington Post article at the time stated, "Thomas Homan deports people. And he's really good at it."[8] [9]

Acting director of ICE

On January 30, 2017, President Donald Trump demoted acting Immigration and Customs Enforcement director Daniel Ragsdale to deputy director, a position he already held, and appointed Homan as acting director.[10] [11] [12] [13] [14]

In May 2017, Homan announced ICE had arrested 41,319 people between Inauguration Day and the end of April, a 38% increase from the same period the year before.[15]

As acting ICE director, Homan said that undocumented immigrants "should be afraid."[16] He has denied saying "aliens commit more crimes than US citizens".[17]

On November 14, 2017, Trump nominated Homan for ICE Director.[18]

In February 2018, Homan said that politicians who support sanctuary city policies should be charged with crimes.[19]

In the April of 2018, he and Kevin McAleenan formally advised Secretary of Homeland Security Kierstjen Nielsen to implement the Trump administration's "Zero Tolerance" policy on immigration, including the prosecution of parents and the separation of children from their families. Homan participated in the May 2018 press conference announcing that the policy was going into effect.

On April 30, 2018, he announced that he would retire from his position as acting ICE Director effective June of the same year.[20]

On June 5, 2018, Homan appeared for a discussion with the Policy Director of the Center for Immigration Studies, where he defended the separation of children from their parents.[21] [22]

Post-government

In July 2019, Homan testified before the House Oversight Committee regarding the Trump administration's family separation policy.[23]

On February 25, 2022, Homan was slated as a keynote speaker for the America First Political Action Conference in Orlando, but left before the conference began after he learned that the founder Nick Fuentes had praised Putin for the Invasion of Ukraine.[24]

Homan joined the Heritage Foundation in February 2022 and became a contributor to its Project 2025, which proposes mass arrests, detentions and deportations of undocumented immigrants across the nation.[25] [26] [27] The proposal mirrors Trump's plans for a second term.[28]

At a July 2024 National Conservatism Conference meeting, Homan 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."[29] During a campaign rally the next day, Trump signaled he would bring Homan back for a second Trump administration.[30] On July 17 at the 2024 Republican National Convention, Homan called Biden's immigration policies "national suicide" and told "millions of illegal aliens" to "start packing".[31]

External links

Notes and References

  1. News: Yaron . Steinbuch . Trump names former ICE chief Thomas Homan as 'border czar' . New York Post. June 14, 2019 .
  2. Web site: Statement from Secretary Kelly on the President's Appointment of Thomas D. Homan as Acting ICE Director . The US Department of Homeland Security . January 31, 2017.
  3. Web site: Dickerson . Caitlin . 2022-08-07 . An American Catastrophe . 2023-05-12 . . en.
  4. ICE Agents Are Losing Patience with Trump's Chaotic Immigration Policy. Blitzer. Jonathan. The New Yorker. June 24, 2019. July 3, 2019. en. 0028-792X.
  5. News: Trump appoints West Carthage native as ICE director. Watertown Daily Times.
  6. News: Nixon . Ron. Trump Names Thomas Homan as Acting Immigration Enforcement Chief . January 31, 2017 . The New York Times. January 31, 2017.
  7. Web site: Dickerson . Caitlin . 2022-08-07 . An American Catastrophe . 2023-05-12 . . en.
  8. News: Meet the man the White House has honored for deporting illegal immigrants. April 25, 2016. The Washington Post. January 31, 2017.
  9. Web site: 5 things to know about ICE Director Thomas Homan . ABC 10 . May 26, 2017.
  10. News: Trump appoints new Immigration and Customs Enforcement director noted for his work deporting illegal immigrants. Berman. Mark. Zapotosky. Matt. January 30, 2017 . The Washington Post. January 31, 2017.
  11. Web site: Chamberlain. Samuel . Trump Names Thomas Homan Acting Director of ICE. January 31, 2017. Fox News. June 29, 2017.
  12. News: Lavender. Paige. Trump Fires ICE Director Daniel Ragsdale, Appoints Thomas Homan . January 31, 2017. The Huffington Post. January 30, 2017.
  13. Web site: Statement from Secretary Kelly on the President's Appointment of Thomas D. Homan as Acting ICE Director. Department of Homeland Security. January 31, 2017.
  14. News: Lichtblau. Eric. Apuzzo. Matt. Landler. Mark. Trump Fires Acting Attorney General . January 31, 2017. The decision by the acting attorney general is a remarkable rebuke by a government official to a sitting president that recalls the dramatic "Saturday Night Massacre" in 1973, when President Richard M. Nixon fired his attorney general and deputy attorney general for refusing to dismiss the special prosecutor in the Watergate case. That case prompted a constitutional crisis that ended when Robert Bork, the solicitor general, acceded to Mr. Nixon's order and fired Archibald Cox, the special prosecutor.. The New York Times. January 30, 2017.
  15. News: Dickerson. Caitlin. Immigration Arrests Rise Sharply as a Trump Mandate Is Carried Out. May 19, 2017. The New York Times. May 18, 2017. A22.
  16. Web site: Kopan. Tal. ICE Director: Undocumented Immigrants 'Should be Afraid'. June 16, 2017. CNN. June 29, 2017.
  17. Web site: Mark. Michelle. ICE Director Appears to Break with One of Trump's Key Beliefs on Immigrants and Crime . June 28, 2017. Business Insider. June 29, 2017.
  18. News: One Nomination Sent to the Senate . November 14, 2017. November 17, 2017. National Archives. whitehouse.gov. en.
  19. News: Trump ICE pick: Politicians who run sanctuary cities should be charged with crimes. Conradis. Brandon . January 2, 2018. The Hill. February 2, 2018.
  20. News: The Hill . Acting ICE director to retire . April 30, 2018 .
  21. http://time.com/5301764/tom-homan-immigration-ice-family-separation/ Immigration and Customs Enforcement Director Defends Separating Families at the Border
  22. Web site: Marc. Rod. Acting ICE director on whether 'zero tolerance' policy is humane: 'It's the law'. CNN. June 19, 2018. June 19, 2018.
  23. Web site: Kaufman . Elle . Former ICE official trades heated words with lawmakers at hearing . July 12, 2019 . CNN. 8 August 2019.
  24. Web site: Mathias . Christopher . White Nationalists with lanyards: Orlando showed the ugly future of the Republican Party . March 3, 2022 . HuffPost. 5 March 2022.
  25. News: Heritage Foundation Welcomes Tom Homan, Former Acting ICE Director, as New Visiting Fellow . . February 14, 2022.
  26. News: Project 2025 . . May 29, 2024.
  27. News: 5 Reasons Leftists HATE Project 2025 . . April 2024 . May 3, 2024 . May 3, 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240503042427/https://www9.heritage.org/rs/824-MHT-304/images/5%20Reasons%20Leftists%20Hate%20Project%202025%20eBook%20THF.pdf?version=0&mkt_tok=ODI0LU1IVC0zMDQAAAGSZw7lk_b8BfbU2MsSd3SBBOJWkKktvCnmh2M7MBbeTZVeJaXF4KBl767HmgatUDUviHvtxKLAPy6pYGfMuml14H-z90LgDd8e2ZWiV5PEYDYGwEmPiw . live. Arresting, detaining, and removing immigration violators anywhere in the United States..
  28. News: Savage . Charlie . Haberman . Maggue . Swan . Jonathan . November 11, 2023 . Sweeping Raids, Giant Camps and Mass Deportations: Inside Trump's 2025 Immigration Plans . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20240705091646/https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/11/us/politics/trump-2025-immigration-agenda.html . July 5, 2024 . The New York Times . 0362-4331.
  29. News: Weigel . David . Trump’s ‘national conservative’ allies plot a revenge administration . . July 9, 2024.
  30. https://x.com/meridithmcgraw/status/1810833013669859511
  31. Web site: Mathias . Christopher . 2024-07-18 . He Went To A White Supremacist Conference. He Just Spoke At The RNC. . live . http://web.archive.org/web/20240718081324/https://www.huffpost.com/entry/thomas-homan-rnc-white-supremacist-conference_n_669856f6e4b05a9a604f80d9 . 2024-07-18 . 2024-07-18 . . en.

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