VIDEO: Congressman Greg Casar Confronts Former ICE Director, Defends Immigrants at Oversight Committee Hearing
WASHINGTON – Today, Congressman Greg Casar (D-Texas) confronted Tom Homan, the former Acting Director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) during the Trump Administration, during an Oversight Committee hearing on immigration.
“Trump’s former ICE Director Homan may not ‘give a shit’ about Texas families being separated, but Texans do,” said Congressman Greg Casar (D-Texas) in a statement after the hearing. “Immigrants make our country great, and we won’t stop fighting for them.”
Homan was in charge of ICE during the 2017 raids across Texas, including in Austin, which were revealed to be a resultof a new Travis County policy to limit cooperation with ICE. ICE agents were instructed to find examples of “egregious” cases in a campaign to portray undocumented immigrants as hardened criminals. That year, ICE agents were also found to be monitoring then-Council Member Casar’s social media.
In 2023 while speaking in a Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) panel, Homan said, “I’m sick and tired hearing about the family separation. You know, I’m still being sued over that, so come get me. I don’t give a shit, right.”
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Congressman Greg Casar represents Texas’s 35th Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives, which runs down I-35 from East Austin to Hays County to the West Side of San Antonio. A labor organizer and son of Mexican immigrants, Casar serves as the Whip of the Congressional Progressive Caucus for the 118th Congress. He also serves on the Committee on Oversight and Accountability and the Committee on Agriculture.