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Trump’s Border Czar Claims Death Threats Have Driven Him From Wife

The top immigration official told a podcast host that it is too dangerous for him to live at home.

President Donald Trump’s border czar Tom Homan says he has received so much hate for his positions on immigration that he is unable to live safely with his family. In a podcast interview with the New York Post, Homan said that “I don’t see my family very much. My wife’s living separately from me right now.” The immigration chief blamed the high number of “outrageous” death threats he’s received during his tenure. Homan has presided over more than 25,000 arrests and 70,000 deportations, according to government statistics. During the first Trump administration, Homan was acting director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement from 2017-2018, a tenure which led one journalist to describe him as the “intellectual father” of the administration’s family-separation policy. Homan also discussed the second Trump administration’s immigration policies on the podcast, claiming that it has created “the most secure border in the history of this nation.” “I wake up everyday like a kid in the candy store,” he said. “I got the greatest president of my lifetime down the hall.”