Tom Homan, the Border Czar, has explained the sad reason he joined President Donald Trump to help the southern border. Homan talked to Breitbart Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow about what he thought were the human and social costs of policies that encourage mass immigration.
Homan began his career with the U.S. Border Patrol in 1984. He then worked his way up through the ranks of the Department of Homeland Security to become the first Director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). He has been a strong supporter of stricter border enforcement and immigration control throughout his long career.
Homan worked for six presidents, starting with Ronald Reagan. He was seen as a nonpartisan figure in both Democratic and Republican administrations for a long time.
Homan has been one of the most attacked officials in the Trump administration since he returned to government service. His immigration policies have drawn a lot of criticism from people who don’t agree with them.
When asked about the threats and attacks against him daily, Homan told Marlow, “I don’t care.”
“I mean, this is the second time I came out of retirement for the president. It’s hard to say no to the president of the United States and help him fix something where thousands of lives have been lost,” Homan said. “So I knew the hate was coming. And, you know, unfortunately, my family pays the price. I haven’t lived with my family in months because of the death threats against me. But my family understands the important mission.”
In a reflective moment during the interview, Homan said his critics would better understand his commitment to border security if they had experienced what he has over the past three and a half decades.
He added that his long career in immigration enforcement has strengthened his resolve to protect the nation’s borders, a mission he described as both deeply personal and highly effective.
“If they held the dead children I’ve held, talked to little girls as young as 9 who were raped multiple times by handlers from the cartel, standing on the back of a tractor-trailer when 19 people are at your feet because they baked to death, including a 5-year-old boy…running operation in Arizona where alien smuggling cartels are ripping bodies from each other with drugs, and when someone couldn’t pay their smuggling fees, they’d torture them and call their relatives and let them listen while they torture them and kill them because they couldn’t pay the fees. These are just a few things,” Homan said during the emotional interview.
Homan became emotional as he recounted the stories of a five-year-old boy and a nine-year-old girl he encountered during his career.
He said their experiences and the suffering they endured had a lasting impact on him.
“The two that break my heart is the 19 dead aliens in the back of a tractor-trailer. When I arrived on that crime scene, when I got to the back of that tractor-trailer, there were several bodies that already hit the ground and when the doors finally opened, people rushed out to get air and some of the dead bodies, that were fighting for a small hole where the break light used to be to breath, were pushed out,” Homan detailed.
“When I looked back in there, I saw a little boy in his underwear, turned out to be five years old, dead. With … his father who was cradling him on top of him. Most of them, if not all of them, were in their underwear because they were trying to get some relief from the serious heat in that steel box,” he said.
