• Thomas Homan, Trump's top immigration enforcer, resigns
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https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2018/04/30/thomas-homan-trumps-top-immigration-enforcer-resigns/566210002/ Thomas Homan, who has headed President Trump's efforts to ramp up immigration arrests and crack down on so-called sanctuary cities, announced on Monday that he is leaving the administration and retiring. Homan was one of Trump's first appointments in January 2017, tapped to lead Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) as its agents were ordered to round up more undocumented immigrants living throughout the U.S. Homan did just that, increasing the number of arrests in his first year, and winning repeated praise from Trump. But Homan has been serving as an interim director, with Trump only nominating him to permanently lead the agency in November. Homan has been facing a difficult road to Senate confirmation over his agency's aggressive enforcement actions, its battles with local governments over their role in immigration enforcement, and the increase of arrests of undocumented immigrants without a criminal record. Eighteen Democratic senators sent a letter to the Department of Homeland Security last week, asking why the administration took nearly 10 months to officially nominate an ICE director. And they asked why the department had not answered its questions of Homan’s handling of ICE, when the agency was "making radical – and in some cases possibly illegal – changes in immigration enforcement and practices." “We understand that the Trump Administration may be concerned about Mr. Homan answering questions under oath about his leadership of ICE, as well as the possibility that Mr. Homan’s nomination could be defeated in the Senate,” the senators wrote. The agency said Homan had been planning to retire for months, and stayed only at the request of John Kelly, the president's chief of staff and former secretary of the Department of Homeland Security. In a statement, Homan called his decision to retire "bittersweet" but long overdue after 34 years working for the federal government.
His nomination languished for so long that legally he couldn't be referred to as the "Acting Director" of ICE. The Senate has demanded an explanation from DHS about why they dawdled, and the suspicion is that Homan was not going to clear nomination because of something and they were holding it back to avoid embarrassing him. Trump picks the best people, and some of them even survive Senate confirmation!
Ok, Thomas Homan is the worst fake name an alien has ever picked since Hugh Mann from Futurama. Come on Reptilians, step it up with the subterfuge. You're getting complacent.
Not even Ford Prefect or John Bigbootè?
I mean, what other names would you suggest other than John/Jane Doe? ...Assssssking for a friend...
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