“The Former Border Patrol Agent’s Ambitious Plans to Reform U.S. Immigration Policy Put Him on a Collision Course With [Liberal] U.S. Bishops. And he said this week, “I love the Catholic Church. The Pope has lost his way. He needs to fix the Catholic Church and leave the borders to us.”
Tom Homan grew up in West Carthage, New York. He is a career law enforcement officer. He was a police officer, then a Border Patrol Agent, then a Special Agent investigating criminal organizations that smuggle aliens or traffic in females and children. He was nominated by President Trump to be the director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and worked as a Fox News contributor. He lives in Washington, DC.
The National Catholic Register “… He argues that a porous border enables cartels in Mexico to brutalize migrants, subjecting them to sexual assault, inhumane traveling conditions, torture (when they or their relatives don’t pay up) and sometimes death, and that it penalizes U.S. citizens and legal immigrants by lowering the wages of laborers, particularly poor people, while promoting disrespect for the law and chaos in communities.
The Former Border Patrol Agent’s Ambitious Plans to Reform U.S. Immigration Policy Put Him on a Collision Course With U.S. BishopsHoman says he wants to stop illegal crossers and punish employers who hire them, as well as kick out foreigners who slipped through or who overstayed their visas, reversing several of the policies that the Biden administration pursued during the current president’s first three-plus years in office…
Jessica Vaughan, director of policy studies for the Center for Immigration Studies, told the Register last November,
The reason Tom is so passionate about this,” she continued, referring to Homan, “is that he has seen the harm when the border is not secure and our country has not enforced our immigration laws.”
In the book and public appearances, Homan frequently refers to an incident in May 2003 in Victoria, Texas, when he investigated an oven-like tractor-trailer in which 19 people died because, according to Homan, the drop-off location unexpectedly changed and the driver turned off the air conditioning so he wouldn’t draw suspicion at immigration checkpoints.
One of the victims was a 5-year-old boy whose body was found under the dead body of his father. At the time Homan’s son was 5…”
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