He's the guy in this picture shaking Trump's hand.
Immigration
101: Who is Tom Homan?
Tom Homan was the
former acting director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the
federal immigration agency responsible for arresting and deporting
undocumented immigrants, from 2017 to 2018. Since leaving the Trump
Administration, Homan has associated with hate groups and has been a vocal
messenger of white nationalist conspiracy theories. Homan recently told the
New York Times he would “agree to come back” in a second Trump term and “run
the largest deportation operation this country’s ever seen.”
Under
Trump, Tom Homan was notorious for wanting to prosecute elected officials and
directed the department to mass-deport immigrants regardless of priorities.
“You should be uncomfortable, you should look over your shoulder, and you need
to be worried,” Homan warned undocumented families in 2017. During a speech
the following year, he bragged that he was “enjoying” then-President Trump’s
deportation agenda.
In late 2023, Tom Homan went on Fox news to discuss
historic levels of deportation under a possible Trump second term. He stated,
“No one’s off the table [for deportation]. If you’re in the country illegally
in violation of immigration law, you are a target.” He continued by saying,
“I’m not fooling myself into thinking we can remove twenty million people.
But, you know, we’re going to give it one hell of a shot and remove as many as
we can.“
Since at least 2018, Tom Homan has been a readily-available
anti-immigrant Fox News contributor, where he has profusely spread the
dangerous and violence-inducing white nationalist narrative of a migrant
“invasion” at the border. Homan blamed Biden for a rise in border
apprehensions months before the 2020 election even took place, and continued
to talk about an “invasion” as an “intentional” move by the Biden
Administration.
Trump's ICE Director Doesn't Care About
Families Separated at Border
During
his time as acting director of ICE, Homan was in charge of the early version
of
Trump's "zero tolerance" immigration enforcement policy that detained
and criminally
charged adults who crossed the border into the U.S.
without permission. Detained adults
who entered with children had those
children taken from them, which generated much
controversy and criticism
because families found diculty in reconnecting later since the
government
didn't have a system in place for reunification.
"I'm sick and tired of
hearing about the family separation," Homan said at CPAC. "I'm still
being
sued over that.... I don't give a s***, right? Bottom line is, we enforced the
law."
...
Homan, though, indicated during his remarks at CPAC that
he did not have much
sympathy for parents who are separated from their
children when they enter the U.S.
without permission.
"When I was a
cop in New York and I arrested a father for domestic violence or someone
for
DUI [driving under the inuence], I separated that family," he said. "When you
violate
the law with a child, you're going to be separated."
"They
chose to separate themselves," Homan added.
So why bring you the bio of this thug?
Because just days ago, right here in Sangamon County, just a couple of miles from where Lincoln is buried, for the low-low price of just $50, you could've heard this fascist goon expound on the glories of Donald Trump and how much he looks forward to getting back into the mass deportation business if Trump slimes his way back to power in November.
Yes, in keeping with it's long and shameful tradition of paying the worst people to come to town to fire up the local Republican meatheads, last week Homan was the keynote speaker at the annual Sangamon County Lincoln Day
fundraising dinner.
Here were your donation options:
$125 per person Reservation for Dinner & Program
$50 per person VIP Reception (must include dinner purchase) Meet
& Greet the Speaker
$1000 per couple – Secure Border
Roundtable with Speaker Tom Homan and Other Officials
Here were your Sponsorship options:
$2000 Lincoln Great Table seating closest to the
stage. Dinner for ten (10). Complimentary Wine, Gift Basket. Name listed in
program and on video display.
$1500 Presidential Choice Table and Dinner
for ten (10). Name listed in program and on video display.
$750
Legislative Five (5) dinner reservations. Name listed in program and on video
display.
$150 Railsplitter Sponsorship only – no dinner reservation. Name
listed in program.
Because I wrote about it last year and because we mentioned it on our podcast
last year, some of you may remember that last year the Sangamon County's GOP
Lincoln Day dinner headline was serial liar and David Plouffe's new bestest
podcast buddy, Kelleyanne Conway.
From our local paper:
Kellyanne
Conway, an advisor of former President Donald Trump, will be the keynote
speaker of the Sangamon County Republican Party’s annual Lincoln Day
dinner.
Sangamon County GOP chair Dianne Barghouti Hartwick said the
dinner, scheduled for 6 p.m. on May 3, has been a fundraiser for the party
dating back more than 100 years. Tickets begin at $125 per person for the
dinner with photo opportunities available for $50 each.
The year before
that, it was Charlie Kirk, which I wrote about at the time.
And before Chuckles Kirk it was Candace
Owens, which I also wrote about at the time
And before that it was Jason Chaffetz, one-time
congressperson and current Fox News troll who now lives in Donald Trump's
underwear drawer, which, yep, wrote about that one too.
The year before that it was Fox News in-house
train-wreck/barfly, Jeanine Pirro. Wrote about that.
The year before that
wingnut-network-job-hopper and H.R. Haldeman stunt-double, Corey
Lewandowski.
The year before that, in 2016, it was none other than Fox
News prime-time Gorgon and Keith Olbermann's former girlfriend, Laura
Ingraham.
And on and on and on.
If you were ever curious about how we out here in the cornfields have been so consistently, dead-on accurate for decades with our predictions about the trajectory of the Republican Party, while our elite professional political media has been so repeatedly and catastrophically wrong about the GOP, it's really pretty simple. Unlike our our elite professional political media, we actually live out here in the real world, chock-a-block with real Republicans who have never been shy about what they really believe.
In fact, as I write this, the Hugh Hewitt Show is playing on one of the two big radio station in the area. He's on 9AM-12PM, Monday through Friday. And if I don't want to listen to Hewitt, I can always tune in to the other big radio station in the area where, at this moment, the Brian Kilmeade Show is playing. He's on 9AM-11AM, Monday through Friday.
Later in the day, on the first station, you get Sean Hannity followed by Mark Levin.
Later in the day on the other station you get Dana Loesch followed by Erick Erickson
The first station pads out it's weekend offerings with America First with Sebastian Gorka, The Larry Kudlow Show, Newsmax's own Chris Plante on the Chris Plante Show and, hilariously. The Weekend with Michael [Heckuva Job, Brownie] Brown.
The second station takes it's foot off the wingnut gas over the weeked with shows like American Family Farmer, Let’s Talk Cosmetic Dentistry and The Jesus Christ Show, but it does find room late on Sunday night for Judge Jeanine Pirro.
This is the ambient radio environment out here in much of the real world -- the poison that Republicans out here in the real world are steeping in every day -- and it's been this way for going on 40 years now.
And there is absolutely no fucking way to fail to notice it, unless your job as an elite political media professional is to deliberately fail to notice it.
I Am The Liberal Media
