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American law enforcement officer and immigration official (born 1961)
Barack Obama did present a 2015 Presidential Rank Award to Thomas D. Homan — commonly referred to in press as Tom Homan — when Homan, then ICE’s Executive Associate Director for Enforcement and Remova...
Yes — Thomas (Tom) Homan was appointed during the Obama administration as ICE’s executive associate director (sometimes described as assistant/assistant director) for Enforcement and Removal Operation...
Multiple news outlets reported that Tom Homan was recorded accepting $50,000 in cash from undercover FBI agents during a 2024 sting that probed whether he would steer government contracts in a second ...
Tom Homan and Trump administration allies have publicly said the administration “rescued” more than 62,000 unaccompanied migrant children who were allegedly lost or exploited after entering the U.S. d...
No public autopsy report or hospital records for Renee Nicole Good have been released as of the available reporting; state prosecutors and investigators do not currently have access to an autopsy that...
Available reporting shows federal and DHS officials — notably Border Czar Tom Homan — have said Omar is the subject of an inquiry into alleged marriage/immigration fraud, but independent fact‑checks a...
The claim that Donald Trump personally sold pardons for $2 million each rests not on proven transactions but on allegations in a 2023 civil lawsuit asserting Rudy Giuliani discussed offering pardons a...
President Trump called Somali immigrants “garbage” and said he did not want Somalis in the United States during remarks at a White House cabinet meeting and in subsequent public remarks; multiple outl...
Project 2025 was developed and directed by the conservative think tank The Heritage Foundation, which assembled a large team of former Trump administration officials and conservative policy experts to...
A series of media reports in September 2025 allege that Tom Homan, a senior immigration official tied to the Trump administration, was recorded by the FBI accepting from an undercover agent posing as ...
Tom Homan — often miswritten as “Tom Holman” in some texts — is a veteran U.S. immigration and law enforcement official who has been designated by President Donald Trump as the White House “border cza...
Allegations that Rep. Ilhan Omar married her purported brother in 2009 and committed immigration fraud have circulated since 2016 and resurfaced in December 2025; no federal charges or prosecutions ov...
ICE has not provided a single definitive count of “lost” children; federal oversight and media reviews point to large but differently characterized tallies: a March 2025 Department of Homeland Securit...
A significant number of individuals who authored or contributed to the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 have been nominated, appointed, or confirmed to roles in the current Trump administration, inc...
Claims that the Trump administration “found” 75,000–80,000 missing migrant children stem from media mentions of such a figure on Fox News and were quickly disputed by fact-checkers and experts; Politi...
The Presidential Rank Awards are a competitive, statutorily created program that recognizes a small fraction of career Senior Executive Service and senior professionals for “sustained extraordinary” o...
Multiple major outlets and internal DOJ materials report that undercover FBI agents recorded Tom Homan accepting $50,000 in cash in September 2024; Reuters, The Washington Post and congressional Democ...
Fact-checkers have repeatedly reviewed public records and reporting and concluded the claim that Rep. Ilhan Omar married her brother lacks reliable public evidence; Snopes calls the rumor “unfounded” ...
The Office of Congressional Ethics (OCE) reviewed allegations that Representative Ilhan Omar omitted required information from her financial disclosures and may have received an advance royalty paymen...
Recent reporting shows Rep. Ilhan Omar has repeatedly denied the claim she married a brother and called critics “sick,” while opponents and some conservative outlets say federal records are being revi...