Donald Trump has a solution for . Tensions between federal agents and protesters escalate after the death of American nurse Alex Pretti by shooting by an immigration agent. It is the second in a few days and, fearing a revolt, the US president strong-armed strip, from his particular ‘border czar’, Tom Homan.
Tom Homan is the emergency asset that Trump has announced on his social network. Although “he has not been involved in that area, he knows and appreciates many people there,” the president noted. And he added as a warning, that “Tom is tough but fair and will report directly to me“.
With this presentation one can get an idea of the profile chosen by Donald Trump. It’s been months now His name generated controversy when it was learned that he would be part of the team of the 47th president of the United States. But now its role takes on special relevance.
Who is the ‘border czar’ and what can he do in Minneapolis
Thomas Douglas Homan, ‘Tom Homan’, it’s a old acquaintance of the Trump Administrationsince he was part of the team in the first term (2017-2021), when He served for a year and a half as interim director of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Service, the ICE now so fashionable. However, he never received the support of the Senate, which made his official appointment impossible.
It is 64 year old ex-police officer and born in West Carthage, New York, was a key figure at the dawn of Trumpism for act with a heavy hand in the expulsion of families and citizens without legal documentationwith images of children separated from their parents next to the US border.
Homan’s career had begun decades earlier, first as a police officer in New York. After a long career he passed in 1984 to the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS for its acronym in English), the predecessor agency of the current ICE.
Within this institution it was escalanding positions in the border patrol until you end up reaching the top of the hierarchical structure, already with Trump in the White House.
His work within the INS and then ICE has always been marked by double vision between who recognized his worth as a defender of the law thanks to his strong policies and those They criticized his cruelty towards migrants.
Key figure for Trump… and honored by Obama
Despite his rise under Trump, Homan was also award-winning and widely recognized during Barack Obama’s time. As reported by the BBC, The current ‘border czar’ became associate executive director of the ICE deportation division in 2013, already in the second term of the Democratic president.
In fact, his own Greater recognition granted to civil servants in the country, based on its contribution to border security.
After a year and a half at the head of ICE between 2017 and 2018, Tom Homan left the position and moved to a second but equally active line.
Without political responsibilities, he continued fueling anti-immigration policies from the numerous gatherings and media forums in which he has participated, including the Fox News or the think tank conservative Heritage Foundation… from where he ended up making the leap to becoming the ‘czar’ of immigration and border policies of the new Trumpism.
