Thomas Homan
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Thomas Homan (left) at a 2016 Senate hearing
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| Director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement Acting |
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| Assumed office January 30, 2017 |
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| President | Donald Trump |
| Deputy | Daniel Ragsdale |
| Preceded by | Daniel Ragsdale (Acting) |
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| Education | State University of New York, Utica-Roma (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 oppostion 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]
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