Biden’s campaign has sounded the alarm about deportations and detention camps in a possible second term for former President Trump, whose former acting director of ICE, Thomas Homan, is scheduled to speak at the Republican National Convention on Wednesday night.
“Nothing shows unity and American values more than having Tom Homan, the architect of family separation, appear in a primetime segment at the Republican National Convention. Americans will never forget the cruel and inexcusable images of mothers being separated from their children, and who is to blame for it: Donald Trump,” Maca Casado, Hispanic media director for the Biden-Harris team, said in a statement.
Homan served as acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in 2017 and 2018, overseeing some of the Trump administration’s controversial family separation policies. Visiting Researcher He is affiliated with the conservative Heritage Foundation think tank. Listed As a contributor to the Project 2025 “Mission for Leadership” policy blueprint.
“I’m tired of hearing about family separations,” Homan said last year, but insisted “we have enforced the law.”
He is expected to address the Republican National Convention audience ahead of a highly anticipated speech by President Trump’s newly appointed running mate, J.D. Vance.
Immigration has become a hot topic at the quadrennial Republican convention.
Arizona Senate candidate Kali Lake chanted “build the wall,” while Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) was booed for claiming that Democrats had cynically decided they wanted the votes of illegal immigrants more than they wanted to protect children.
The Biden campaign said Homan’s appearance Wednesday night ” [Trump’s] He criticized the “brutal legacy” of immigration policy and suggested that if the former president had four more years in office, he would “go further,” using the National Guard to round up and deport immigrants, set up mass detention camps and reinstate the brutal, anti-American Muslim ban.
“Neither Trump nor Tom Homans have any interest in fixing the immigration system that Trump himself destroyed because Trump thinks attacking the most vulnerable is good politics,” Casado said.
