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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...
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 ...
Yes — multiple contemporaneous reports and official notices show that received a 2015 Presidential Rank Award while serving as ’s executive associate director for Enforcement and Removal Operations, a...
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...
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...
reportedly told a confidant that “everything I’ve done, I’ve done at the direction of the president and ,” a line first reported via summaries of an -sourced account and then repeated in outlets inclu...
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...
Multiple mainstream outlets report that commander is departing and has been relieved of his local command amid over recent federal operations there, though federal spokespeople have suggested he will ...
The recordings allegedly showing accepting $50,000 from undercover agents are not publicly available; and at least one nonprofit have formally demanded or sued for their release after federal agencies...
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...
Multiple mainstream outlets report that Border Patrol commander was ordered out of and expected to leave the city amid fallout from involving federal agents, and at least one source explicitly says he...
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 ...
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...
Yes— was a senior, career ICE official whom the appointed to a top enforcement role in 2013, but he was not the head (director) of ICE under President Obama; he rose to acting ICE director only after ...
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...
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...
was the acting director of from January 2017 until June 2018 during ’s first term, but he was never a Senate‑confirmed ICE director and is not currently the agency’s chief; in late 2024 Trump named hi...
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...
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...
did give a Presidential Rank Award in 2015 — a high civil‑service honor conferred on a small group of senior career executives — but Homan was a senior career ice official, not “Obama’s ICE chief,” an...