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Homan advocates deportation of illegal immigrants and opposes sanctuary city policies. In 2015, President Barack Obama awarded him a Presidential Rank Award for his effectiveness with illegal immigrant deportations. During his first tenure under Obama, he proposed the potential effectiveness of family-separation that was initially rejected. Within the Trump administration from 2017, he expanded upon this idea and became the most strident proponents of the Trump administration's family separation policy as a means of deterring illegal entry into the country. After 2018, he began contributing to Fox News as a commentator. Homan joined the Heritage Foundation in 2022 and became a contributor to Project 2025.

Homan was appointed by President Barack Obama as Immigration and Customs Enforcement's executive associate director of enforcement and removal operations in 2013.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Homan#Obama_administration_(2014%E2%80%932016)

By 2014, under the Obama administration, Homan began to argue that separating children from their caregivers would be an effective way to discourage illegal border crossings. The journalist Caitlin Dickerson has called him the "intellectual father" of the policy, which he outlined years before the Trump administration adopted it. "Most parents don't want to be separated", Homan told Dickerson. He argued that this makes separation an effective tool for immigration enforcement: "I'd be lying to you if I didn't think that would have an effect."

In 2015, the Obama administration awarded him a Presidential Rank Award as a Distinguished Executive. The Washington Post wrote, "Thomas Homan deports people. And he's really good at it."

January 27, 2026 at 5:03 PM

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Brent Toderian

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This makes zero sense to me. Public money was used to create this database of historic places, and it seems dumb and a waste of money to throw it in the trash. Feels like something Trump and Doge would do, not Canada.

Either keep it in Govt, or transition it to a credible new non-profit caretaker.

Kelly B @kellyblack.ca · 6d

This here is some mind boggling ridiculousness. Parks Canada announced the Register for Historic Places - a searchable database and a cornerstone for understanding heritage places – will be permanently unplugged this spring @willgreavesmp.bsky.social #CdnHist

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