“Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are the first administration in the history of this nation to purposely unprotect a border,” Homan said. “This is not an accident, this is not incompetence, this is intentional, folks… They obviously perceive a future political advantage, thinking maybe they are future Democratic voters.” Homan called this the “great white replacement theory”: “These millions of people who are released into sanctuary cities across this country and who will be counted in the next census, what does that mean? More House seats for Democrats. They will own the House forever. This is what they want. They sold this country for future political power. And for me that is betrayal. There is no other excuse for it.”
Homan then outlined his dystopian vision for unauthorized immigrants under a second Trump administration, dismissing criticism that his plan was racist and vowing to implement the “largest deportation operation in American history.”
In an interview last month with 60 Minutes, Homan elaborated on those plans and announced that the practice of mass arrests of unauthorized immigrants in workplaces would be revived. When asked about separating parents from their children who were U.S. citizens, Homan said “families can be deported together.”
Homan and the Trump campaign did not respond to a request for comment.
Homan began his career in West Carthage, New York, as a police officer before joining what was then known as the Immigration and Naturalization Service as a border patrol agent in 1984. He worked as an agent, investigator and supervisor, before being appointed in 2013 by then-President Barack Obama to be associate executive director of law enforcement and deportation operations, a position for which he won the Presidential Rank Award in 2015.
During this time, Homan First the idea of separating the children came up. of their families as a way to deter immigrants from crossing the border illegally.
In 2017, he was named acting director of ICE less than two weeks into Trump’s first term. He then formalized the child separation policy along with Stephen Miller, who was just named Trump’s deputy chief of staff.
In 2022, Homan joined the Heritage Foundation as a visiting fellow, where he would contribute a section describing mass arrests and deportations of immigrants to Project 2025, the policy manual outlining what a second Trump term would look like. Trump tried to distance himself from Project 2025 before the election and repeatedly fiance He would not employ anyone in his administration who was linked to her.