Tom Homan, who has been tapped to be President-elect Trump’s border czar, criticized Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) after she said he is in over his head.
On Saturday, Crockett joined MSNBC, where she chastised the Trump administration for its mass deportation plans, and she argued they would separate families and put people in immigration encampments.
Homan then joined Newsmax on Monday, where he dismissed her criticism.
“So, look, I don’t know who this lady is,” Homan said, highlighted by Mediaite. “I don’t care about what they say about Tom Homan, because I’ve done this job for a long time.”
Homan ran Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in an acting capacity in 2017 and 2018 before retiring. Being named border czar means it's Homan’s second time coming out of retirement for Trump.
Homan said that Trump has given him a mandate to fix the border and save lives, and the country gave Trump that mandate in the recent election.
He argued that the Biden administration’s policies on immigration and border security have killed and hurt both Americans and migrants.
“President Trump is going to secure this border and save lives just not of Americans, but of aliens, too,” Homan said.
Homan, an early proponent of family separations, has received sharp backlash for the idea as a deterrent.
In a recent interview with The Washington Post, Homan said he plans to reinstate policies that will hold families in detention centers, something Crockett criticized on air over the weekend.
He dismissed the criticism on Monday.
“All of a sudden, the discussion goes from family detention to family separation,” Homan said. “Family detention is the complete opposite of family separation.”
