#200 Tom Homan - The U.S. Border Czar
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Who is Tom Homan and what is his background?
tom homan welcome to the show thanks for having me oh thanks for coming we've been trying to get this done since man i feel like it's been like six months we've been playing uh phone tag and trying to get you in here so i just i really appreciate you taking the time and um i've been looking forward to this interview for a very long time and then i and then i thought it i just thought it would never happen as as busy as you are so i'm busy but i'm i'm glad i'm here i think this is uh
You've got a huge bandwidth, and American people need to know what's happening in this country right now. Thank you.
Thank you. So I'd like to do a life story on you on the front half of the interview and kind of talk about your journey into becoming the border czar and some of the events that you faced leading up to that. And then on the back half of the interview, I'd like to do all current events stuff, everything that's going on at the border, what it was like before, what it's like now, and then some of the measures that you guys are implementing down there and maybe up there too to keep us safe here at home and take care of the issues at hand, which seem to be major issues. So looking forward to it. Let's do it. But everybody starts off with an introduction here. Tom Holman, border czar under President Trump's second administration, appointed to oversee the nation's border security and interior enforcement operations. A law enforcement veteran with over four decades of experience, starting as a border patrol agent and rising to become one of the most influential officials in U.S. immigration policy. Former acting director of of U.S.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement serving from January 2017 to June 2018, where you shaped some of the most talked about immigration policies of the Trump era. Your man of the year from, congratulations on that, from the National Police Defense Foundation and Border Hero Award from America's Voice. I think those both came out last week. Yeah, last week. Congratulations. Congratulations. And, yeah, you know. I waited to tell everybody that you were coming on just because of who you are and all the security and stuff. And it was funny, when I finally broke the news last week, for whatever reason, everybody that works for me started giving me their birth certificates and passports. So I don't know what's going on, but they're pretty tuned in.
But yeah, so a couple other things real quick. Everybody gets a gift. I got you two gifts. The famous gummies. Vigilance League gummy bears made here in the USA, legal in all 50 states. It's just candy until RFK outlaws it. So, but, and then another thing. Thank you. You're welcome. Found out you're a Catholic this morning. Yes, sir. And so I want to give you one of those. One of my really good friends, Dom Razo. Thanks. sells these rosaries and uh my journey to faith is relatively new i grew up catholic and uh i'm still thank you thank you very much yeah you know and i just i think the catholic religion just there's one there's one thing they get right for sure it's protection and uh with what you're facing right now i'm sure you could use a little extra protection so i i carry one of those every single day carry one of these carry one of these
What is that? St. Michael's. Love that. Love that. But, well, Tom. In the Virgin Mary on the backside. Nice. Carry both. I want to cover both sides.
Nice. Nice. Where'd you grow up? Small town called West Carthage, New York. Population about 2,500. What were you into growing up? Pardon me? What were you into growing up? Strong Catholic family. I mean, mom, dad, seven kids. Grew up in farm country. There's two things you do in that little town. You either work on a farm or you work at Fort Drum, an army base up by there. Or you're a logger, cutting down trees. So it's a small community, very patriotic community. I talk about that a lot. I mean, walking through this village I grew up in, just about everybody had an American flag on their front porch. I talk about it in my book. It's like being in Mayberry. Everybody knew everybody, right? My mom and dad, very strong Catholics.
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