In an exclusive interview in Washington, DC, with The Alex Marlow Show podcast, President Trump’s Border Czar Tom Homan told Breitbart Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow why he decided to join the president in his quest to secure the southern border and explained in graphic detail the devastation wrought by those who advocate for mass immigration at all costs.
Homan, who started in the United States Border Patrol in 1984 and later became the first Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) director who worked his way through the ranks of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), has been trying to secure the nation’s borders for decades.
He served for six presidents, dating back to President Ronald Reagan, and had long been a neutral figure in Democrat and Republican administrations.
After having appointed Homan as ICE’s executive associate director of Enforcement and Removal Operations in 2013, then-President Obama was so pleased with the former New York police officer’s efficiency in deporting illegal aliens that he awarded him the Presidential Rank Award in 2016.
The Left has changed since then, and today, Homan is one of the most attacked political appointees in the second Trump administration — a job he came out of retirement to take.
“I don’t care,” Homan told Marlow when asked about the attacks and threats against him on a daily basis from the Left.
“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 an emotional moment, Homan said that if his opponents wore his shoes for the last three and a half decades, they would have a very clear understanding of why he fights to secure the nation’s borders — and with tremendous success.
“If they held th
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