How Tom Homan’s no-drama deportations trounced Kristi Noem’s flash:
Where does Tom Homan go to get his apology?
When President Donald Trump put his border czar in charge of unwinding the controversial Department of Homeland Security operation in Minneapolis earlier this year, critics on the right believed that Homan would be the instrument of a broad Trump climb-down on his signature issue.
Gregory Bovino, the border officer who had been in charge in Minneapolis before getting supplanted by Homan, accused him of pretending to be tough while giving up on mass deportations.
As it turns out, immigration arrests hit a record for Trump’s second term in June at 43,000, and the number increased again in July to 50,000.
Removals, too, were at a high in July — 34,000.
There was a dip in enforcement after Trump pulled back from Minneapolis.
It didn’t last long, though.
As the administration settled on a new approach and funding from the Big Beautiful Bill — $75 billion for ICE — flowed into additional enforcement assets, the numbers began to increase again.
Homan has avoided the pyrotechnics favored by the attention-seeking former head of DHS, Kristi Noem, who sent Bovino to Minneapolis.
Instead, he’s continued robust enforcement without relishing cinematic images of militarized raids and clashes with protesters for their own sake.
In fact, anti-ICE activists are complaining about the lack of flashiness.
According to the Guardian, they say that because arrests are “generally happening routinely, and quietly, volunteers who had taken to keeping watch for ICE vehicles and officers in certain cities and blowing whistles when they spotted immigration agents, were lately having trouble seeing how and where ICE is operating.”
The new tactics depend heavily on routine pick-ups of illegal aliens at traffic stops and immigration check-ins, as well as airports.
A spate of news stories has emphasized, in a critical tone, how for the first time a majority of those apprehend haven’t committed other crimes besides their immigration offenses.
It may be that Trump and Homan have put too much emphasis in their rhetoric on going after “the worst of the worst” — but there’s no reason that more routine immigration offenders should be held harmless. --->READ MORE HERE
Trump ‘border czar’ denies Milo Yiannopoulos was deported quickly to spare him from ICE detention:
Tom Homan denies British far-right commentator, who was deported one day after arrest, got preferential treatment
The White House “border czar,” Tom Homan, denied on Sunday that deporting the British far-right commentator Milo Yiannopoulos just a day after being arrested by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) amounted to preferential treatment.
Homan said it was his understanding that Yiannopoulos, 41, had overstayed what he believed to be a visitor visa, had not appeared at an immigration hearing and was issued a final order of removal on 22 July.
“He didn’t show up,” Homan told CNN’s State of the Union. “The judge ordered him deported. So, once ICE gets an order of deportation from a federal judge, their job is to execute that order, and that’s what they did.”
He added: “He had his due process, ordered removed by a federal judge, and ICE removed him. It’s that simple.”
Yiannopoulos’s removal one day after his arrest, when many others who have been deported had first endured lengthy detention center incarcerations, has prompted questions about whether he received preferential treatment in that respect. Homan said the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), which oversees ICE, was trying to speed up the deportation process.
“Once a judge orders them out, rather than being in detention, waiting for travel documents and flight arrangements, we – ICE, along with the [border patrol] and [DHS] – [are] working really good on the efficiencies of the removal process,” Homan remarked.
He continued: “As soon as we get an order for removal, our goal is remove them as quick as possible, regardless of who they are. Get them out quick. Open those beds up for more detainees.”
The DHS had quickly publicized Yiannopoulos’s arrest on Thursday at an airport in New Orleans – where he may have travelled to attend a concert by the rapper Ye, formerly Kanye West, on Friday at the city’s Caesars Superdome.
Officials with the DHS touted Yiannopoulos’s arrest on Friday. By Saturday morning, Yiannopoulos’s name was removed from a list of people in ICE detention, and the DHS confirmed that he had been deported to the UK on Friday – one day after his arrest. --->READ MORE HERE
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