Tom Homan, the former New York police officer who was President Trump’s first acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, is already plotting a 2024 campaign against the agency’s archenemy, New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand.
Fed up with her calls to kill the agency and disparagement of ICE workers as a “deportation force,” Homan told Larry O’Connor’s “Examining Politics” podcast that he wants to push her out of the Senate.
Asked if he would like to run for retiring Rep. Pete King’s seat, Homan said he was looking higher.
“Let me just say this: When I do return to New York and Sen. Gilibrand is still around, she won’t be around because I’ll take her on,” said Homan.
The longtime immigration professional said that he is no longer a New York resident but would return to challenge Gillibrand.
Gillibrand has called for the end of ICE, wants it folded into some other agency, and wants it put to work to protect illegal immigrants.
As acting director and after he retired, Homan has been the administration’s top voice for ICE and its officers. “ICE are the good guys,” he told O’Connor, who hosts a daily radio show on Washington’s WMAL and who is also on KABC.
“They put their life on the line for this nation,” he said of the agency, which has only been attacked by the Left. “The whole thing has been turned upside down,” added Homan.
Gillibrand tried her hand at the 2020 Democratic nomination but folded in August. She won reelection in 2018 by a wide margin.
