Thomas Homan is known for his bombastic rhetoric and only lasted about a year under Trump, acting as the director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) from January 2017 to June 2018.
Source: Mediaite
At CPAC, Homan stuck a very similar tone to those comments from June 2017, as he laid into the Biden administration’s border policies before the conservative political group.
“I wake up every day pissed off because this administration destroyed the most secure border in our lifetime,” Homan said, adding:
And I’m sick and tired of hearing about the family separation, and I’m still being sued over that. So come give me… I don’t give a shit. Right. Bottom line is. We enforced the law.
American families, when I was a cop in New York and I arrest a father for domestic violence or someone for DUI, I separate that family. When you violate the law with a child, you’re going to be separated.
“But you’re right. 250,000 children have crossed the border since Joe Biden’s been President. They chose to separate themselves and the children aren’t always children,” Homan added.
Mediaite noted that Homan is no stranger to controversy, either.
He made headlines in 2022, when he reportedly showed up at notorious neo-Nazi Nick Fuentes’s America First Political Action Conference in Orlando, but left the conference before his scheduled speech. Homan reportedly claimed that he backed out of the white nationalist event after reading online that Fuentes had praised Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.
He was fine with White Nationalism/Neo-Nazis but drew the line at Russian genocide in Ukraine. Got it.
