Tom Homan, unleashed

IN 2003 Tom Homan was in Dallas talking about a new agency he was helping to set up. It would eventually be known as Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), part of the brand new Department of Homeland Security. But he was called away abruptly because of an emergency. In south Texas 19 migrants were found dead in the back of a lorry. They had suffocated on the drive across America’s southern border. Among them was a little boy. “This experience made Tom Homan who he is today,” Mr Homan wrote in his memoir published in 2020. “Don’t let anyone tell you that illegal immigration is a victimless crime.”