Republicans cheered for Tom Homan after President-elect Donald Trump named former ICE director Tom Homan as the Border Czar of the new administration. MAGA supporters shared a video of his spat with Democrat Alexandria Ocasio Cortez and marveled at his style of shutting ‘unintelligent’ Democrats.
The Tom Homan – AOC video is from 2019 in which AOC asked Tom Homan whether he was the author of a memo. In reply, Homan said he signed the memo but he was not the author of the memo. Then they debated family separation and zero tolerance over the immigration system. Homan always stood by zero-tolerance immigration system where family members were separated during detention and deportation proceedings.
“In case you aren’t familiar with Donald Trump’s new Border Czar Tom Homan,” MAGA supporter Benny Johnson wrote presenting another video of Homan debating Pramila Jayapal. “You work for me. I am a taxpayer,” Homan told Jayapal in the video.
Over the years, Homan’s disposition towards AOC didn’t change. Early this year, he said AOC is not very smart after AOC criticised Biden’s move to restrict asylum seekers at the US-Mexico border. “Doing Trump impressions isn’t how we beat Trump. Seeking asylum is a legal right of all people. In the face of authoritarian threat, we should not bucle on our principles — we should commit to them,” AOC said.
Homan said AOC needs to be honest. “… this isn’t about true asylum. This is about getting to the United States, this is about being released, this is about failing to leave the country as order by the courts. They’ll hide out and be a fugitive for a few years waiting for the next amnesty, waiting for the next DACA. All these families coming across now, that’s your next DACA,” he said.
Tom Homan contributed to Project 2025
Called the father of family separation in immigration policies, Tom Homan was reportedly a contributor to Project 2025 from which Donald Trump distanced himself and said he did not know who were the people behind Project 2025. When Trump announce Homan as the Border Czar, he wrote, ” I’ve known Tom for a long time, and there is nobody better at policing and controlling our Borders. Likewise, Tom Homan will be in charge of all Deportation of Illegal Aliens back to their Country of Origin. Congratulations to Tom. I have no doubt he will do a fantastic, and long awaited for, job.”
