President Donald Trump's top immigration adviser, Tom Homan, is under fire from outgoing Border Patrol commander Greg Bovino, who is insisting Homan is soft on the president's signature agenda item.
According to The Daily Beast, "Bovino’s latest attack came in a Wednesday X post. It followed a vow made by Trump’s border czar, Tom Homan, on the Scott Jennings Show to send 'a hell of a lot more agents to New York' to counter Gov. Kathy Hochul’s curbs on ICE. Bovino was unimpressed. 'He sounds super tough,' he wrote of Homan, 64. 'But zoom in. All he’s actually promising is rounding up the ones who already have known criminal records.' Homan, he said, 'is denying reality.'"
Under Homan's agenda, said Bovino, all other immigrants are "staying right where they are ... until they rob or kill you" and "100 million" illegal immigrants are "laughing at us" until we get serious about "mass deportations." (In reality, there are just between 11 and 14 million unauthorized immigrants in the country.)
Bovino, who was recently forced into retirement, became a controversial household name after his leadership role in the federal occupation of Minneapolis, which resulted in the deaths of two locals. Homan was later brought in to take over from him.
Homan, himself a controversial figure who was caught accepting a bag of $50,000 from undercover FBI agents, has been one of the toughest-talking public-facing Trump officials on immigration policy, at some points even threatening to arrest Democratic politicians who don't cooperate with ICE operations.
"The feud cuts to a central criticism of Trump — that his deportation drive has stalled far short of its promises," noted the report. "The president’s stated target is one million removals a year. The actual pace has held at roughly 1,286 a day — about 460,000 annually — according to UC Berkeley’s Deportation Data Project, as analyzed by researcher Austin Kocher."
