Trump border czar Homan, wife ‘living separately' because of death threats
President Trump's border czar Tom Homan said in a new interview that he and his wife are not currently living together because of death threats he has received for enforcing Trump's immigration crackdown and the amount of time he spends working.
'My wife's living separately from me right now, mainly because I worked for many hours, but mostly because of the death threats against me,' Homan told New York Post columnist Miranda Devine on Wednesday's episode of her 'Pod Force One' podcast. 'I see her as much as I can, but the death threats against me and my family are outrageous.'
Homan, who holds the formal title White House executive associate director of enforcement and removal operations, was a top immigration aide to Trump during his first presidency but moved to the private sector and worked as an immigration policy pundit over the past four years.
'Even my wife said, 'You know, it's a huge pay cut,' because I'm doing good in the private sector,' he said of receiving Trump's call to join the new administration while the couple was having dinner one night. 'She's in the middle of remodeling — months of stuff — and all that stopped because I'm leaving the private sector, going back to a government paycheck.'
He said she urged him to do it anyway.
'She said, 'You need to go back or we'll get divorced … because if you don't go back, you'll be waking up every day, pissed off that you didn't go back, and I've gotta live with four more years of you being pissed off, so go back and do the job,'' Homan recalled, chuckling.
Homan told Devine he didn't hesitate at the chance to join Trump's second administration this year and doesn't regret the decision, despite personal sacrifices.
'I'm not going anywhere,' he said. 'I mean, I had a thousand protestors at my house in Upstate New York, my lake house.'
'I'm not going away, 'cause I know how important it is to secure our border,' he added.
Homan defended Immigrations and Customs Enforcement activity in Los Angeles, which sparked mass anti-ICE protests that prompted Trump to deploy thousands of National Guardsmen and Marines to guard federal buildings and workers.
'We were serving three criminal arrest warrants … it was a criminal investigation that happened to deal with money laundering, tax evasion and customs fraud,' Homan said. 'We know that in the Garment District, there is strong suspicion that some of that funding is sent to Mexico and Colombia to fund cartel activity, so it was a criminal investigation.'
'Right away, the left went nuts, saying 'ICE is doing an immigration raid,' and they came out in force,' he added.
Over the course of the nearly hourlong interview with Devine, Homan praised New York Mayor Eric Adams (D), saying he believes Adams cares about public safety, and derided other Democrats whom he accused of using immigration as a political ploy.
'Every Democrat I ask these questions to, they can't answer me: What's the downside of less drugs coming across? What's the downside of less sex trafficking of women and children? What's the downside of less people in terrorist organizations coming across? What's the downside of less gang members and criminals coming across?' Homan said. 'What's the downside of a secure border?'
'They'll never admit it, but they know that they see a future political benefit,' he added.
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