From The Conversation: Trump's Border Czar Tom Homan

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🗓️ 13 July 2025

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Tom Homan, Trump’s border czar, is a longtime immigration law enforcement official now tasked with helping implement the administration’s massive deportation campaign. In a wide-ranging interview with POLITICO’s Dasha Burns, Homan explains what will be done with the $170 billion recently passed by Congress to help the effort, defends the tactics of ICE agents, and has a message for those who say undocumented farmworkers should be spared. “People who say ‘don't arrest workers,’ they don't understand the whole ugly underbelly of illegal immigration the way I do,” he tells Burns. Plus, on the one year anniversary of the assassination attempt on Donald Trump in Butler, PA, journalist Salena Zito shares her first-hand account as described in her new book, “Butler: The Untold Story of the Near Assassination of Donald Trump and the Fight for America's Heartland.”

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0:29.8	Hey, it's Dasha.
0:31.0	I wanted to share the latest episode of my other podcast, The Conversation with Dasha Burns.
0:35.9	This week, we have Tom Homan, President Trump's
0:38.4	Borders'ar, to talk about Trump's massive deportation campaign. I'll also be joined by
0:43.2	journalist Selena Zito on the one-year anniversary of the near assassination of Donald Trump
0:49.2	in Butler, Pennsylvania. Take a listen.
0:58.3	Music Pennsylvania. Take a listen. Hello, hello, and welcome to The Conversation. Every week on the show, I invite one of the
1:04.0	most compelling power players in Washington and beyond in for a chat to find out how they're
1:10.2	navigating and shaping this incredible era of American politics.
1:14.3	And today, I'm joined by Tom Homan.
1:17.8	Homan is Trump's borders are.
1:19.8	You'll remember President Trump's biggest campaign promise was immigration enforcement, deportations, locking down the border.
1:30.0	Well, Tom Homan is President Trump's go-to guy on all of that. He's been touting how the border is now pretty much secure. So now the
1:35.9	next step is that mass deportation campaign. So I really wanted to dig into that because he's just
1:41.8	gotten $170 billion from Congress from that big
1:46.2	beautiful bill to ramp up deportations. I wanted to talk to him about what his next target is,
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