“Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are the first administration in the history of this country to knowingly unsecure the border,” Homan said. “This is not an accident, this is not incompetence, this is deliberate, folks… They clearly perceive a future political benefit, think maybe they are future Democratic voters.” Homan called it “the great white replacement theory”: “These millions of people who are left in sanctuary cities across this country, who will be counted in the next census, what does that mean? More seats in the House for the Dems. They're forever. This is what they want for the future of political power. And for me, there is no other excuse for this.”
Homan then outlined his dystopian vision for unauthorized immigrants under a second Trump administration, rejected criticisms that his plan was racist, and promised to implement “the largest deportation operation in the history of the United States.” .
In an interview with 60 Minutes last month, Homan revealed plans to revive the practice of mass arrests of unauthorized immigrants in workplaces. When asked about parents being separated from their children who were U.S. citizens, Homan said, “Families can be deported together.”
Homan and the Trump campaign did not respond to requests for comment.
Homan began his career in West Carthage, New York, as a police officer before joining the service 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. Appointed Acting Associate Director for Enforcement and Removal Operations by then-President Barack Obama – a role for which he won the Presidential Rank Award in 2015.
During this time Homan The idea of separating children first came up from their families as a way to prevent immigrants from crossing the border illegally.
In 2017, less than two weeks into Trump's first term, he was appointed acting director of ICE. He then formalized the child separation policy with Stephen Miller, who had recently been named Trump's deputy chief of staff.
In 2022, Homan joined the Heritage Foundation as a visiting fellow, where he contributed to a section profiling the mass arrest and deportation of immigrants. project 2025The policy booklet that outlines what a second Trump term would look like. Trump attempted to distance himself from Project 2025 before the election, and Frequently Promise He will not appoint anyone in his administration who is associated with this.