Border Czar Tom Homan has revealed the heartbreaking reason why he joined President Donald Trump to help the southern border. Speaking with Breitbart Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow, Homan described in detail what he characterized as the human and social costs of policies promoting mass immigration.
In 1984, Homan started his career with the U.S. Border Patrol and later rose through the ranks of the Department of Homeland Security to become the first Director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Over the course of his decades-long career, he has been a leading advocate for stronger border enforcement and immigration control.
“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.”
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.
“If you wore my shoes for three and a half decade, you wouldn’t ask that question because I’ve seen so much tragedy in my life, it’s who I am today,” he added. “So when I’m getting asked to come back and secure the border and you know it’s going to save lives, how do you say no to that?”
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.
Politico reported that New York Governor Kathy Hochul met with border czar Tom Homan on Friday. Homan wanted to make sure that the governor knew there were no plans for a surge of immigration agents into her state.
“It was an important conversation to be had, for him to hear directly from me the current concerns I have on behalf of New Yorkers,” Hochul said after the meeting.
“As the Trump Administration has repeatedly stressed, we want to work with local leaders to keep their communities safe from dangerous, criminal illegal aliens,” White House spokesperson Abigail Jackson said in a statement.
“The Administration, including Tom Homan, remains committed to having these conversations with anyone willing to have them. And we will continue acting on our mandate to enforce federal immigration law.”
Hochul had previously met with President Donald Trump during the annual National Governors Association meeting in Washington, D.C., to express her concern over a possible ICE surge.
“The president said, ‘We’ll only go where we’re wanted.’ And said, for example, ‘I won’t go to New York unless Kathy calls and says she wants me to come to New York,’” Hochul said after meeting Trump.