Tough Times

Tom Homan is the right man in the right place at the right time

There’s that great scene in the first Sin City film where Dwight, played by Clive Owen, is sat in a bar surveying the colorful host of miscreants around him and then he gets to Mickey Rourke’s Marv, the local neckbreaker who’s just got done serving time in the slammer. Marv’s face is plastered to hell after a brutal fight and he’s knocking back shots at the counter.

“Most people think Marv is crazy,” Dwight mumbles, his mouth full of peanuts.

“He just had the rotten luck of being born in the wrong century. He’d be right at home on some ancient battlefield, swinging an axe into somebody’s face, or in a Roman arena taking a sword to other gladiators like him.”

Every time I look at Tom Homan I hear that monologue, word for word. If you know who Tom Homan is and you’ve seen his big scary mug, you’ll understand why.

I described him on Twitter today as having “peak Anglo skullsplitter physiognomy.” Frankly, if he belongs anywhere, it’s on some muddy field south of Calais, laying into a French knight with a billhook, or in the northern borders drowning a Scotsman in a shallow burn.

Homan has a head and a look of ice-cold malice behind his eyes that would send most men—armed, unarmed, it doesn’t matter—running for their lives if they know what’s good for them.

Some men are just built for grim deeds. Tom Homan is built for grim deeds.

But I’m not here to wax lyrical about Homan’s potential as a physical avatar of the war god. I just want to say that Homan, unlike Marv, is absolutely the right man in the right place at the right time. He can stay in the present century.

Right for what? For managing the largest deportation operation in American history, that’s what.

Homan was in charge of ICE as acting director between 2017 and 2018, during the first Trump presidency. He was responsible for the controversial “family separation” policy. But Homan didn’t give a rat’s ass about the controversy. He knew that there had to be a strong deterrent—that breaking up and processing families for deportation separately would stop them coming—and he wasn’t afraid to say so.

Watch video of his encounter with AOC in the House. Not an inch of ground given. AOC may be Alex Stein’s favourite big booty Latina, but Tom Homan wasn’t thinking about anything but the job at hand. The doe eyes and the retarded bleating don’t work on him.

Thankfully, Donald Trump knows how solid Homan is. It was expected that Trump would bring him back—he said so during the campaign—and now we have confirmation. Homan will be serving as “border czar,” Trump posted on Truth Social, with responsibility for all the nation’s borders. And, more importantly, he’ll be the man presiding over the mass deportation of illegal aliens Trump has made his flagship policy.