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 the dead children I’ve held, talked to little girls as young as 9 who were raped multiple times by handlers from the cartel, standing on the back of a tractor-trailer when 19 people are at your feet because they baked to death, including a 5-year-old boy, running operation in Arizona where alien smuggling cartels are ripping bodies from each other with drugs, and when someone couldn’t pay their smuggling fees, they’d torture them and call their relatives and let them listen while they torture them and kill them because they couldn’t pay the fees. These are just a few things,” Homan said.
“If you wore my shoes for three and a half decade, you wouldn’t ask that question because I’ve seen so much tragedy in my life, it’s who I am today,” he continued. “So when I’m getting asked to come back and secure the border and you know it’s going to save lives, how do you say no to that?”
It was the stories of the five-year-old migrant boy and nine-year-old migrant girl, whom Homan choked up retelling their stories and the impact it left on him.
“The two that break my heart is the 19 dead aliens in the back of a tractor-trailer. When I arrived on that crime scene, when I got to the back of that tractor-trailer, there were several bodies that already hit the ground and when the doors finally opened, people rushed out to get air and some of the dead bodies, that were fighting for a small hole where the break light used to be to breath, were pushed out,” Homan detailed. “When I looked back in there, I saw a little boy in his underwear, turned out to be five years old, dead. With … his father who was cradling him on top of him. Most of them, if not all of them, were in their underwear because they were trying to get some relief from the serious heat in that steel box.”
“So I look at that and I say, okay these people are in a steel box, it’s 107 degrees or higher, black, couldn’t see your hand in front of your face, no air, no water, no food, they baked to death. And I stood there looking at that and I saw that little boy and I had a little boy that same age and I remember, I looked at that little boy, true story, he had the same underwear on that mine did,” Homan said, fighting tears. “And so before I could process this scene, what’s going through my head is ‘Why did he have to die this way? Why did any of them have to die this way?’ Because if we had a secured border, it wouldn’t happen. And when you talk to the survivors … when you hear the stories, how that little boy begged his father, he didn’t want to die. Any 5-year-old that has to beg their father not to die because he wanted to see his mom again, he wanted to see his sisters again … a 5-year-old knew he was dying and asked his dad to save him, what’s his dad going to do? They’re in a locked steel box. His dad is the reason he’s there. So think what the father’s going through watching his child die in his arms. That changed me forever.”
In the case of the nine-year-old migrant girl, Homan said he spoke to her after her rescue from cartel smugglers. In his conversation with her, Homan learned that she had been repeatedly raped by cartel members as she made her way to the U.S.-Mexico border.
“Now that little girl, her life will never be the same. Everything innocent and pure was ripped from her. So that’s why I fight hard. And a lot of people ask, ‘Why do you get emotional when you’re on TV?’ Why do you get emotional in front of Congress? Because we can fix this,” Homan said.
Under Biden, Homan said he would wake up every morning “very pissed off because I knew, based on my years of experience and my investigations, okay, how many people died last night? How many women or young little girls got sexually assaulted last night? How many have been forced into labor to pay off smuggling fees? How many pounds of fentanyl came across last night to kill Americans? How many people from the terrorist countries got in last night? How much money did the cartel make last night?” READ MORE HERE and WATCH THE INTERVIEW BELOW:
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