Donald Trump's border czar in his second term. Like his father and grandfather, Homan was a police officer before joining the Border Patrol in the 1980s. He worked in immigration enforcement under Democratic and Republican presidents. In Trump's first term, he was promoted to acting director of ICE. He has called the One Big Beautiful Bill Act's nearly $75bn allocation to ICE "a game-changer" and says the goal of 1m deportations a year has never looked so achievable.
After retiring before Joe Biden was elected, Homan started a consulting firm. Reports from MSNBC and the New York Times revealed in September 2025 that the FBI and the US attorney's office in west Texas had investigated whether Homan accepted cash from FBI agents posing as executives to secure future government contracts. The investigation began at the end of the Biden administration; after Trump took office, the case was closed. Homan says he did nothing illegal.
After Trump removed Gregory Bovino, the bellicose face of Operation Metro Surge, from Minneapolis on January 26th 2026, Homan—who advocates a more targeted approach to enforcement—took charge of the operation.
Homan has argued that allowing ICE access to state and local jails would mean fewer agents conducting raids on the streets, but has also promised that no one is "off the table". He has pointed to Florida, where Governor Ron DeSantis passed a law requiring sheriffs to co-operate with ICE, as a model—and has said he would redeploy agents freed up in co-operative states to sanctuary cities such as New York.
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