Border Czar Tom Homan Shares Heartbreaking News
President Donald J. Trump’s Border Czar, Tom Homan, spoke candidly in Washington, D.C., about why he came out of retirement—again—to help secure America’s southern border and stop the human suffering caused by open-border policies.
In a deeply emotional interview on The Alex Marlow Show podcast, Homan sat down with Breitbart Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow to discuss the devastating human cost of unchecked illegal immigration and the moral drive that keeps him in the fight.
A law enforcement veteran since 1984, Homan began his career with the U.S. Border Patrol before becoming the first ICE Director to rise through the ranks of the Department of Homeland Security. Over his long career, he’s served under six presidents, beginning with Ronald Reagan, but says his mission has always been the same — to uphold America’s sovereignty and save lives.
Homan has faced relentless criticism from the left for his tough enforcement stance, but he told Marlow he’s unfazed.
“I don’t care,” Homan said. “This is the second time I’ve come out of retirement for the president. It’s hard to say no to the president of the United States and help him fix something where thousands of people have died. So I knew the hate was coming.”
Despite constant threats against his life, Homan said his family understands why he’s back in the trenches.
“Sadly, my family has to pay the price. Because of the threats against my life, I haven’t lived with my family in months. But my family knows how essential this mission is.”
Reflecting on his decades of service, Homan grew emotional as he described the horrors he’s witnessed firsthand along the border — scenes that have shaped his conviction and sense of duty.
“If they held the dead kids I’ve held, talked to little girls as young as 9 who were raped multiple times by cartel handlers, stood on the back of a tractor-trailer when 19 people were at your feet because they baked to death, including a 5-year-old boy… running an operation in Arizona where alien smuggling cartels are ripping bodies apart with drugs, and when someone couldn’t pay their smuggling fees, they would torture them and call their relatives and let them listen while they torture them and kill them because they couldn’t pay the fees,” Homan said. “These are just a few things.”
He continued,
“If you wore my shoes for three and a half decades, you wouldn’t ask that question because I’ve seen so much tragedy in my life that it’s who I am today. So when they ask me to come back and protect the border and you know it will save lives, how do you say no?”
Tearing up, Homan recalled the images that haunt him most — the deaths of migrants, including children, who were exploited by ruthless human traffickers.
“The 19 dead aliens in the back of a tractor-trailer break my heart the most,” he said. “When I got to the back of that tractor-trailer, there were already several bodies on the ground. When the doors finally opened, people rushed out to get air, and some of the dead bodies that were fighting for a small hole where the brake light used to be to breathe were pushed out.”
“When I looked back inside, I saw a dead five-year-old boy in his underwear, with his father holding him on top of him. Most of them, if not all of them, were in their underwear because they were trying to cool off in that steel box.”
Through it all, Homan remains unwavering in his belief that strong borders save lives — both American and migrant. His story is a raw reminder that behind every policy debate are real people, real tragedies, and real consequences.
“You don’t have to agree with me,” Homan told Marlow, “but you can’t say I don’t care. I’ve lived this.”