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President-elect Trump has announced Tom Homan as his new administration’s border czar, putting a 30-plus-year immigration enforcement veteran at the head of his mass deportation pledge.
Homan, the second Trump appointee announced after White House chief of staff Susie Wiles, ran Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in an acting capacity in 2017 and 2018 before announcing his retirement.
This is his second time coming out of retirement for TrumpHoman led ICE’s Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) component from 2013 onward under former President Obama, and had planned to retire from public service to a consulting job at PriceWaterhouseCoopers in 2017.
But on the way out of his retirement party, Homan received a call from then-White House chief of staff John Kelly offering him the top job at ICE.
He has since been a vocal cheerleader for the incoming president, joking with reporters in 2017 that Trump, “like him or love him, is doing the right thing.”
With Trump’s announcement Sunday, Homan left his job at Fox News as a contributor and will become one of Trump 2.0’s chief immigration architects along with hardliner Stephen Miller, who will occupy a White House position as a deputy to Wiles.
Though Trump sent a nomination to the Senate for Homan to formally lead ICE in 2018, Homan called it quits rather than face a potentially bruising Senate process.
He’s a 30-plus year veteran of immigration enforcementHoman kicked off his law enforcement career as a police officer in West Carthage, N.Y., his hometown, before moving on to the Border Patrol, the defunct Immigration and Naturalization Service and then ICE, rising through the ranks.
His tenure at the top of ICE was seen as a boon for the agency’s chronic employee morale problem.
Homan’s demeanor as a cop’s cop helped him impress his bosses, too; in 2017, Trump praised Homan in a speech as someone who “looks very nasty, he looks very mean.”
“That’s what I’m looking for,” Trump said.
But Homan had a reputation as a moderate in the Obama administration, drawing criticism from some hardliners early in the first Trump administration.
Homan, however, became the face of the Trump administration’s most hawkish immigration policies.
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- By Gus Leonisky at 13 Nov 2024 - 7:40pm
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history of erasure and exclusion...In her latest book, Not “A Nation of Immigrants”: Settler Colonialism, White Supremacy, and a History of Erasure and Exclusion, world-renowned scholar and activist Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz writes, “The United States has never been ‘a nation of immigrants.’ It has always been a settler state with a core of descendants from the original colonial settlers, that is, primarily Anglo-Saxons, Scots Irish, and German. The vortex of settler colonialism sucked immigrants through a kind of seasoning process of Americanization, not as rigid and organized as the ‘seasoning’ of Africans, which rendered them into human commodities, but effective nonetheless.”
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YOURDEMOCRACY.NET RECORDS HISTORY AS IT SHOULD BE — NOT AS THE WESTERN MEDIA WRONGLY REPORTS IT.
“It’s hard to do cartoons without being nasty…”
Gus Leonisky