Former acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement Thomas Homan gave Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez a much needed reality check during a House Oversight Committee hearing on the treatment of migrant families late last week.
During the exchange, Ocasio-Cortez constantly tries to pin Homan down on the topic of separating families due to a zero tolerance memo that he signed off on.
“The recommendation, of the many you recommended, you recommended family separation,” she said to Homan.
Homan responded: “I recommended zero-tolerance. The same it is with every U.S. citizen parent that gets arrested with their child.”
Facts don’t care about AOC’s feelings pic.twitter.com/06p4O9vBzf
— Quoth the Raven (@QTRResearch) July 12, 2019
As AOC pushed further, Homan broke it down into a very simple example that left AOC stunned and without a retort momentarily.
Homan continued: “If I get arrested for a DUI and I have a young child in the car, I’m going to be separated.”
AOC pushed back on asylum seekers, saying that the act of seeking asylum was not illegal.
“If you want to seek asylum, then go to a port of entry. Do it the legal way. The attorney general of the United States has made that clear,” Homan said back, leaving AOC speechless and fumbling with her papers.
Homan was also antagonized by Rep. Jesus “Chuy” Garcia (D-Ill.) at the same meeting. Garcia opened his line of questioning by angrily asking:
Mr Homan, do you understand that the consequences of separation of many children will be lifelong trauma and carried across generations? Have we not learned from the interment of Japanese Americans? Mr. Homan, I’m a father. Do you have children? How can you possibly allow this to happen under your watch? Do you not care? Is it because these children don’t look like children that are around you? I don’t get it. Have you ever held a deceased child in your arms?
“First of all, your comments are disgusting,” Homan responded. “I’ve served my country for 34 years. This is out of control. Yes, I held a 5-year-old boy in my arms that was in the back of a tractor-trailer and knelt down beside him and said a prayer for him because I knew what the last 30 minutes of his life were like and I had a 5-year-old son at the time.”
“What I’ve been doing in my 34 years serving my nation is to save lives. So for you to sit there and insult my integrity and my love of my country and for children…that’s why this whole thing needs to be fixed — and you’re the member of Congress! Fix it!”
This is insanity:
Dem Rep. Garcia claims Former ICE Director Thomas Homan doesn't care about children because "these children do not look like children that are around you."
Then he asks, "Have you ever held a deceased child in your arms?"
Homan UNLOADS on him in response: pic.twitter.com/HMw7o4Z85v
— Caleb Hull (@CalebJHull) July 12, 2019
Homan’s brutal honesty continued on Fox Business’s “Lou Dobbs Tonight” where commentator Gregg Jarrett told Homan that “the treatment of you was nothing short of appalling.”
Connolly “threw out dirt and wouldn’t let me respond. This is about political theater. He ran out of there like a little girl. He’s a coward. He didn’t want to hear my response because this was all political theater,” Homan said.
“This is about resisting this president. This about open borders. They don’t want to hear the truth.”
#AmericaFirst – Tom Homan: Congress doesn't want to hear the truth. Pushing a false narrative & not letting someone like me who spent 34 years on the border speak about the crisis tells you something. This is all about resisting @RealDonaldTrump. #MAGA #Dobbs pic.twitter.com/7HR1kkcp2o
— Lou Dobbs (@LouDobbs) July 12, 2019
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This asshat Garcia is the kind of filthy communist dog shit that runs Illinois from the tiny blue dot in the extreme northeast corner.
I’m surprised AntiFA didn’t firebomb him as he left.
There has been a blackout on most of this story. If the MSM (mostly socialist mfer’s) were to include that they would be allowing communist scum Antifa to be widely identified as a terrorist group in the mind of the public.
What kind of idiot tries to help illegals by burning down the building they are in? The AGW’s got it right this time and shot the shit out of the old commie bastard.
Harrington Richardson
¡Viva Homan! Shame on AOC! Back to behind the bar, ignoramus! Member of the US Congress? Shame on the voters! What a sorry state of affairs that this silly woman could have been elected.
When someone challenges the script that was carefully crafted for her, she makes it evident that she doesn’t have an intelligent thought in her bug-eyed head. Her handlers, who created and control her, need to do better at writing down possible rebuttals ( or she was just too stupid to find the right one as she frantically flipped through her papers.)
Sorta like BHO, eh?
You can thank The Young Turks for AOC.
They also recruited Tlaib and Pressley. They supported but did not recruit the grifter Omar.
It is alleged that AOC, Tlaib and Pressley were literally auditioned as actresses for the “part” of running for Congress as left wing extremists.
Their “tearful” testimony on child migrants in cages was the worst acting job I’ve seen in a long time, but idiots brains suck it right in, believing every word.
The BS these Demorats spue doesn’t phase me anymore. I’m numb to their complaints and assaults having heard it too many times. Too many times and the well is dry, as are my eyes.
The little cretins are one-trick ponies, all they know is racist, racist, racist. Hell, even Pelosi is tired of them and when she told them to back off, well, she’s a racist. Chuy is the worst kind of racist, a Mexican racist who pretends to not be a racist.
AOC can’t think off-script, just like Obama couldn’t speak off prompter. Uhhh, uh, oh, uh…stutter. AOC attempts to focus on one aspect of the ‘child separation’ clause and gets schooled when told that asylum seekers have a port to go to and illegally entering the country is a crime and those who do so are….criminals.
Thank God for patriots like Tom Homan. It is far past time for true patriots to get in the face of these sleazy politicians and tell them the truth about what is really going on. They sit in their cushy offices in the District of Corruption and complain about issues they created and that they aggravate with their words and lack of action.
We need to get just as good at using Alinsky’s “Rules for Radicals” as the left is or we will lose our Republic forever.
I think people like Homan are emboldened by Trump. They see his example of blasting away with both barrels and say to themselves “Hey, I should do that”.
Trump is really pulling the gloves of today, saying Ilhan Omar and other congress people should go back to the countries they came from to clean up the messes there before coming here to criticize and muck things up. The Dims will be in a low hover for weeks over that one. And it will probably only get worse.
H-hour approaches………………….
They are shitting bricks. El Slicko has been caught lying about Epstein. The Pizzagate thing may even fire back up? Grand juries are working on the Deep Staters and the communist wing of the Dhimmicrats are giving shit to the leadership.
We are in for a shit show like we have never seen.
Trump stepped into the middle of a cat fight and he should have left them alone to scratch each others eyes out. Now, he has given them some unity, so he should cool it on the marxist sisters for a while.
I do agree that he has been a catalyst for many on the right, ignoring what is PC and saying what is on his mind. It keeps the left off balance and they cannot get out in front of him. Progressives are having a race to see who can go the farthest left and whoever is standing next summer will have a tremendously long publicly recorded history of what they have said. Political ads will pick up on these statements and he will finish strong, with only hard left voters on his side.
His tweet about the Marxist sisters had 152,000 “likes” last time I looked. AOC and Tlaib and Omar are going to help Trump win re-election AND take back the House. And Pelosi knows it.
They’re stabbing moderate Dems openly on social media.
Just a matter of time before some issue arises where those four have some disagreement and they’ll be after each other. Their remarkable public ignorance is very entertaining and I can’t wait to see what they say if, or when, there’s a release of more info to the public on Trump’s past relationship with Epstein.
Trump isn’t a catalyst for the right because the right has been P’s all along and won’t say a damn thing. Trump is saying it for them. I think it’s very entertaining and much needed.
I think Homan would have said the same thing without the influence of Trump. This is a shoot-from-the-hip guy and he says it like it is.
i’d like to see the nationality of congressman garcia–
chicago has lots of mexicans but also even more puerto ricans–
the mexicans are mostly not eligible to vote so if he’s mexican it probably means that there is massive voter fraud taking place,even by chicago standards–
He (and others) are obviously prepped and coached for their attacks … good.
Finally a man with intestinal fortitude standing up to suits full of shit in congress who after being correctly called out as to who and what they really are they skipped out to a hiding place to reinforce their phony belief system !
It’s about time these asses got told off!
Her voice cracking saying holy shit this guy is kicking my arse. He not only pits my beloved illegal alien future voters against us citizens that are all treated exactly the same so she thinks shes got him with the bullshit refugee tactic until he quotes the law of exactly how and why refugee status needs to get to proper port of entry, for proper protection unless they are galloping by horseback across a desert being hotly pursued by drug dealers or people wanting to kill them then march your silly as to a port of entry. These crazy libtards cant win without cheating with allowing illegals in so they can vote. When are gonna stand up and collectively hold these treasonous bastards accountable and use their own tactics against them. Are they not being racist against Americans? Why do they protect illegal aliens rights and allow them to wave the Mexican flag but burn the usa flag and call anyone wearing flag colors a racists or nationalist. Aren’t these border crossers nationalist and racist if they too are waving their own Mexican flags! Fuck these so called elected reps. They no longer represent Americans or our country’s best interest. If they don’t nt and continue to be falsely elected they will ensure revolution one way or another.