Thomas Homan

Thomas Homan
Director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement
Acting
Assumed office
January 30, 2017
President Donald Trump
Deputy Daniel Ragsdale
Preceded by Daniel Ragsdale (Acting)
Personal details
Education State University of New York, Utica-Rome (BAS)

Thomas Homan (born c. 1961) is the acting director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). In 2013, Homan became the executive associate director of ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations.[1]

Career

Homan is from northern New York state. He served as a police officer in Carthage, NY before joining what was then called the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service in 1986. He served as a border patrol agent, an investigator, and a supervisor before being named to the executive associate director position.[2] In 2015, he was given a Presidential Rank Award as a Distinguished Executive in the Obama administration. A Washington Post article at the time stated, "Thomas Homan deports people. And he's really good at it."[3][4]

Director of ICE

On January 30, 2017, President Donald Trump demoted acting Immigration and Customs Enforcement director Daniel Ragsdale to deputy director, a position he already held, and appointed Homan as acting director.[5][6][7][8][9]

In May 2017, Homan announced ICE had arrested 41,319 people between Inauguration Day and the end of April, a 38% increase from the same period the year before.[10] Over half of the increase in arrests were of illegal aliens who had committed no crime other than illegally residing in the United States.[10] Deportations declined 12% from that period the year before.[10] Apprehensions were sharply down from 2011, when they had averaged 29,000 a month, but if arrests continue at the current rate, they may surpass the highest annual numbers reached under President Obama in Mr. Trump’s first year in office.[10]

As ICE director, Homan has voiced opposition to illegal immigration and support for strong illegal immigration enforcement.[11][12][13] He also voiced support for passing Kate's Law and ending sanctuary cities.[14] He stated that despite committing a crime by entering the country illegally, illegal immigrants do not commit more crimes than the rest of the population in the U.S.[15]

References

  1. ↑ "Statement from Secretary Kelly on the President's Appointment of Thomas D. Homan as Acting ICE Director". The US Department of Homeland Security. Retrieved 31 January 2017.
  2. ↑ Nixon, Ron (31 January 2017). "Trump Names Thomas Homan as Acting Immigration Enforcement Chief". New York Times. Retrieved 31 January 2017.
  3. ↑ "Meet the man the White House has honored for deporting illegal immigrants". Washington Post. April 25, 2016. Retrieved 31 January 2017.
  4. ↑ "5 things to know about ICE Director Thomas Homan". ABC 10. Retrieved 26 May 2017.
  5. ↑ Berman, Mark; Zapotosky, Matt (January 30, 2017). "Trump appoints new Immigration and Customs Enforcement director noted for his work deporting illegal immigrants". Washington Post. Retrieved January 31, 2017.
  6. ↑ Chamberlain, Samuel (January 31, 2017). "Trump Names Thomas Homan Acting Director of ICE". Fox News. Retrieved June 29, 2017.
  7. ↑ Lavender, Paige (January 30, 2017). "Trump Fires ICE Director Daniel Ragsdale, Appoints Thomas Homan". The Huffington Post. Retrieved January 31, 2017.
  8. ↑ "Statement from Secretary Kelly on the President's Appointment of Thomas D. Homan as Acting ICE Director". Department of Homeland Security. Retrieved January 31, 2017.
  9. ↑ Lichtblau, Eric; Apuzzo, Matt; Landler, Mark (January 30, 2017). "Trump Fires Acting Attorney General". New York Times. Retrieved January 31, 2017. The decision by the acting attorney general is a remarkable rebuke by a government official to a sitting president that recalls the dramatic "Saturday Night Massacre" in 1973, when President Richard M. Nixon fired his attorney general and deputy attorney general for refusing to dismiss the special prosecutor in the Watergate case. That case prompted a constitutional crisis that ended when Robert Bork, the solicitor general, acceded to Mr. Nixon's order and fired Archibald Cox, the special prosecutor.
  10. 1 2 3 4 Dickerson, Caitlin (18 May 2017). "Immigration Arrests Rise Sharply as a Trump Mandate Is Carried Out". The New York Times. p. A22. Retrieved 19 May 2017.
  11. ↑ Bedard, Paul (June 13, 2017). "ICE Chief Rips Critics of Deportations, Entering Illegally 'Is a Crime'". The Washington Examiner. Retrieved June 29, 2017.
  12. ↑ Dinan, Stephen (June 13, 2017). "No apologies: ICE Chief Says Illegal Immigrants Should Live in Fear of Deportation". The Washington Times. Retrieved June 29, 2017.
  13. ↑ Kopan, Tal (June 16, 2017). "ICE Director: Undocumented Immigrants 'Should be Afraid'". CNN. Retrieved June 29, 2017.
  14. ↑ Miller, S.A. (June 28, 2017). "ICE Chief Makes Impassioned Plea for Kate’s Law, Crackdown on Sanctuary Cities". The Washington Times. Retrieved June 29, 2017.
  15. ↑ Mark, Michelle (June 28, 2017). "ICE Director Appears to Break with One of Trump's Key Beliefs on Immigrants and Crime". Business Insider. Retrieved June 29, 2017.
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