{"id":16709,"date":"2025-10-12T13:46:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T13:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cndailynews.store\/?p=16709"},"modified":"2025-10-12T13:46:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T13:46:07","slug":"tom-homan-reveals-heartbreaking-reason-he-fights-to-secure-border-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cndailynews.store\/?p=16709","title":{"rendered":"Tom Homan Reveals Heartbreaking Reason He Fights To Secure Border"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In an exclusive interview in Washington, D.C., with The Alex Marlow Show podcast, President Trump\u2019s Border Czar Tom Homan discussed his decision to join the administration\u2019s efforts to secure the southern border.<\/p>\n

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Speaking with Breitbart Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow, Homan described in detail what he characterized as the human and social costs of policies promoting mass immigration.<\/p>\n

Homan began his career with the U.S. Border Patrol in 1984 and later became the first Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) director to have risen through the ranks of the Department of Homeland Security. Over the course of his decades-long career, he has been a leading advocate for stronger border enforcement and immigration control.<\/p>\n

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Homan served under six presidents, beginning with Ronald Reagan, and was long regarded as a nonpartisan figure within both Democratic and Republican administrations, Breitbart\u00a0reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Since returning to government service under President Trump, Homan has become one of the most frequently targeted officials in the administration, drawing sharp criticism from opponents of the administration\u2019s immigration policies.<\/p>\n

When asked about the threats and attacks against him on a daily basis,\u00a0Homan told Marlow<\/a>: \u201cI don\u2019t care.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cI mean, this is the second time I came out of retirement for the president. It\u2019s hard to say no to the president of the United States and help him fix something where thousands of lives have been lost,\u201d Homan said. \u201cSo I knew the hate was coming. And, you know, unfortunately, my family pays the price. I haven\u2019t lived with my family in months because of the death threats against me. But my family understands the important mission.\u201d<\/p>\n

In a reflective moment during the interview, Homan said his critics would better understand his commitment to border security if they had experienced what he has over the past three and a half decades.<\/p>\n

He added that his long career in immigration enforcement has strengthened his resolve to protect the nation\u2019s borders, a mission he described as both deeply personal and highly effective.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf they held the dead children I\u2019ve 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\u2026running operation in Arizona where alien smuggling cartels are ripping bodies from each other with drugs, and when someone couldn\u2019t pay their smuggling fees, they\u2019d torture them and call their relatives and let them listen while they torture them and kill them because they couldn\u2019t pay the fees. These are just a few things,\u201d Homan said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you wore my shoes for three and a half decade, you wouldn\u2019t ask that question because I\u2019ve seen so much tragedy in my life, it\u2019s who I am today,\u201d he added. \u201cSo when I\u2019m getting asked to come back and secure the border and you know it\u2019s going to save lives, how do you say no to that?\u201d<\/p>\n

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Homan became emotional as he recounted the stories of a five-year-old boy and a nine-year-old girl he encountered during his career. He said their experiences and the suffering they endured had a lasting impact on him.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe 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,\u201d Homan detailed.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I looked back in there, I saw a little boy in his underwear, turned out to be five years old, dead. With \u2026 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,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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