Thomas Homan, whom Donald Trump intends to make his new “border czar” to implement his immigration deportation policy, is an old acquaintance of the former Republican Government (2017-2021), in which he held an interim position in this same terrain.
Homan was involved in his previous term in a controversial initiative that involved the separation of families of undocumented immigrants and that was designed by one of the main advisors of the first Trump Administration, Stephen Miller.
Under that initiative, children who crossed the southern border into the United States without legal permission were separated from their parents or other adults so that they could be criminally prosecuted.
That policy began in 2017, during Trump’s first term, and was intensified in early 2018 before the administration abandoned it after large numbers of Americans denounced it as inhumane.
“I am pleased to announce that former Director of ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) and loyal defender of border control, Tom Homan, will join the Trump Administration to take charge of our nation’s borders,” the president-elect announced on Sunday. in a message on his social network.
62-year-old Homan is a former police officer and government official who during the first Trump administration was acting director of ICE, a position he could never officially hold since it was not ratified by the US Senate.
Homan has defined himself as a faithful follower of Trump’s policies in the field of illegal immigration and supports the announcement that the president-elect made during the electoral campaign that if he won the election, he would order the “largest deportation of undocumented immigrants in history.” of the United States.”
Currently, it is estimated that there are 11 million undocumented people residing in the country (3% of the population) and nearly 80% have been residing in the United States for more than a decade.
“I hear a lot of people say that talk of mass deportation is racist. It is a threat to the immigrant community. And it is not. He should be a threat to the illegal immigrant community. And right after a historic illegal immigration crisis, that is something that has to be done,” Homan said in a recent interview with CBS.
An interview in which he made clear some of the priorities of what his mandate could be if he joined Trump’s team again.
In this way, when asked: What would the largest deportation in the history of the United States be like for him? He said, “Well, let me tell you what it is not going to be. It is not going to be a massive neighborhood cleanup. It is not going to be the construction of concentration camps. I have read everything. “It’s ridiculous.”
Homan stressed that what he would do is a policy of “selective arrests.” “We will know who we are going to arrest, where it is most likely to find them based on numerous investigative processes,” he said. He also said that if he were to become responsible for immigration policy he would prioritize national security and threats to public safety.
“It is not okay to enter a country illegally, which is a crime. That’s what drives illegal immigration, when there are no consequences. The Biden-Harris administration has shown it: you can arrive at the border, surrender and be released in 24 hours,” he criticized.
The figures dismantle that discourse, since Biden has expelled more migrants than Trump expelled during his first term.
He also denied being the “father of Trump’s family separation policy”: “It’s not true. I didn’t write the memo to separate the families. I signed the memorandum. Why did I sign it? I was hoping to save lives. As you and I are talking right now, a child is going to die at the border. So we thought, maybe if we prosecute people, they’ll stop coming.”
And although he said then that if Trump won a second term, that policy is something that must be considered, he acknowledged that a policy of mass deportations would not deter immigrants from illegally crossing the border, since “people will continue to try to come looking for a better life.”
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