President Trump’s Border Czar Tom Homan talked to The Alex Marlow Show podcast in Washington, D.C., on why he decided to help the government make the southern border safer.
Homan talked to Breitbart Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow about the human and social costs of policies that encourage mass immigration in great detail.
Homan started working for the U.S. Border Patrol in 1984. Later, he became the first head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to come from the Department of Homeland Security. He has been a staunch supporter of stricter immigration and border enforcement throughout his long career.
Breitbart said that Homan worked for six presidents, starting with Ronald Reagan. For a long time, he was seen as an impartial figure in both Democratic and Republican administrations.
Homan has become one of the most targeted officials in the Trump administration since he returned to federal service. People who disagree with the administration’s immigration policy have been very critical of him.
Homan told Marlow, “I don’t care,” when asked about the threats and attacks he gets every day.
“This is the second time I’ve come out of retirement for the president,” I said. Homan stated, “It’s hard to say no to the president of the United States and help him fix something where thousands of people have died.” “So I knew the hate was coming.” And, you know, sadly, my family has to pay the price. Because of the threats against my life, I haven’t lived with my family in months. But my family knows how essential this mission is.
During a moment of reflection during the interview, Homan noted that his opponents would better understand how serious he is about border security if they had lived through what he has over the previous three and a half decades.
He said that his long career in immigration enforcement has made him even more determined to preserve the country’s borders, a task he called both very personal and very effective.
“If they held the dead kids I’ve held, talked to little girls as young as 9 who were raped multiple times by cartel handlers, stood on the back of a tractor-trailer when 19 people were at your feet because they baked to death, including a 5-year-old boy…running an operation in Arizona where alien smuggling cartels are ripping bodies apart with drugs, and when someone couldn’t pay their smuggling fees, they would torture them and call their relatives and let them listen while they torture them and kill them because they couldn’t pay the fees.” Homan said, “These are just a few things.”
He said, “If you wore my shoes for three and a half decades, you wouldn’t ask that question because I’ve seen so much tragedy in my life that it’s who I am today.” “So when they ask me to come back and protect the border and you know it will save lives, how do you say no?”
Homan got upset as he talked about the five-year-old child and nine-year-old girl he had met over his career. He remarked that what they went through and the pain they felt stayed with him.
“The 19 dead aliens in the back of a tractor-trailer break my heart the most.” Homan said, “When I got to the back of that tractor-trailer, there were already several bodies on the ground. 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 breathe were pushed out.”
“When I looked back inside, I saw a dead five-year-old boy in his underwear. With his father holding him on top of him. He claimed, “Most of them, if not all of them, were in their underwear because they were trying to cool off in that steel box.”