ICE Director Brags About How Much He's
'Enjoying' Tearing Immigrant Families Apart
Riding high off two recent widely denounced deportations
that ripped apart immigrant families who have
called the U.S. home for decades, acting ICE director Thomas Homan boasted at a
conference on January 31 that he has really begun "enjoying" his role
in carrying out President Donald Trump's racist mass deportation agenda.
"This isn't a job
I particularly wanted in the beginning," Homan said at a so-called
"Border Security Expo" in San Antonio, Texas. "But I'll tell you
what, I'm enjoying it."
This is hardly the
first time Homan has openly relished in his ability to instill fear in
immigrant communities. At a hearing on Capitol Hill last June, Homan
said undocumented immigrants "should be uncomfortable" and constantly
"looking over their shoulder[s]."
During his appearance at the "Border Security Expo" —which came just hours after Trump ramped up his anti-immigrant rhetoric with a flurry of lies during his State of the Union address—Homan also expressed his opposition to a clean DACA solution supported by immigrant rights advocates, spoke in favor of Trump's "wall," and bragged about how many immigrants his agency has deported since Trump took office.
Reacting to Homan's
comments on Thursday, immigrant rights activist Tony Choi wrote, "There's
a special place in hell for those who get off on broken families and profit off
of incarcerating innocent people."
"Homan is the
proof that our immigration system isn't broken; it's fundamentally designed to
break us," Choi added on Twitter.