Donald Trump's New 'Border Czar' Defended Child Separation at Festival Held by Gun-Worshipping Sect

“Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are the archetypal medication successful the past of this federation who unsecured a borderline connected purpose,” Homan said. “This isn't an accident, this isn’t incompetence, this is by design, folks … They evidently comprehend a aboriginal governmental advantage, reasoning possibly they are aboriginal Democratic voters.” Homan called this the “great achromatic replacement theory”: “These millions of radical that are released into sanctuary cities crossed this state who volition beryllium counted successful the adjacent census, which means what? More seats successful the House for the Dems. They'll ain the House forever. This is what they want. They sold this state retired for aboriginal governmental power. And to me, that's treasonous. There's nary different excuse for it.”

Homan past outlined his dystopian imaginativeness for unauthorized immigrants nether a 2nd Trump administration, dismissing criticisms that his program was racist, and promising to enact the “biggest deportation cognition successful the past of the United States.”

In an interrogation past period with 60 Minutes, Homan fleshed retired those plans, announcing that the signifier of wide arrests of unauthorized immigrants astatine workplaces would beryllium revived. When asked astir parents being separated from their children who were US citizens, Homan said “families tin beryllium deported together.”

Homan and the Trump run did not respond to a petition for comment.

Homan began his vocation successful West Carthage, New York arsenic a constabulary serviceman earlier joining what was past known arsenic the Immigration and Naturalization Service arsenic a borderline patrol cause successful 1984. He worked arsenic an agent, investigator, and supervisor, earlier being appointed successful 2013 by then-president Barack Obama to beryllium the enforcement subordinate manager for enforcement and removal operations—a relation for which helium won the Presidential Rank Award successful 2015.

During this time, Homan first floated the thought of separating children from their families arsenic a mode of deterring immigrants from crossing the borderline illegally.

In 2017, helium was appointed acting manager of ICE little than 2 weeks into Trump’s archetypal term. He past formalized the kid separation argumentation alongside Stephen Miller, who was conscionable named Trump’s lawman main of staff.

In 2022, Homan joined Heritage Foundation arsenic a visiting chap wherever helium would spell connected to lend a conception that outlined the wide arrests and deportations of immigrants to Project 2025, the argumentation playbook that outlines what a 2nd Trump word would look like. Trump attempted to region himself from Project 2025 earlier the election, and repeatedly promised helium would not employment anyone successful his medication who was linked to it.