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Homan’s Playbook Is Different—and More Effective
Tom Homan doesn’t operate that way. He targets illegal aliens who already have final orders of removal. They’ve had their day in court. The legal path is clear: arrest, deport, and done. They don’t come back.
Bovino’s approach may have generated arrests that looked impressive on TV, but it didn’t actually remove people from the country. It burned resources, fed media narratives, and produced protests. Two people died in confrontations with agents. Noem spent two days under intense Congressional questioning. Homan was sent in to clean up the mess.
The Employer Problem Nobody Talks About
There’s a bigger issue that gets almost no attention: the employers who keep hiring illegal labor. Arresting people on the street is a band-aid if the underlying incentive remains.
Day labor sites, meatpacking plants, construction crews, farms—these operations thrive because businesses choose illegal labor over American workers. Bovino’s teams staged raids, including one at a Home Depot parking lot in California using a Penske truck for cover. Creative? Yes. Effective long-term? Not really. The employers stayed open the next day, business as usual.
The real enforcement that changes behavior comes from employer accountability: E-Verify audits, workplace raids, and criminal referrals for executives who knowingly hire illegal workers. Homan has long championed this strategy, and it’s part of Trump’s agenda. Whether the restructured DHS under Markwayne Mullin makes it an operational priority remains to be seen.
House Cleaning at the Top
Bovino is gone. Noem is gone. Both were replaced following Minneapolis. Markwayne Mullin is set to take the DHS helm March 31, and Homan now has the operational freedom he’s been denied in the past. As Mark Morgan explained, Homan was “literally cut off” from doing his job by Noem and Corey Lewandowski. That roadblock is gone.
The left is spinning Bovino’s retirement and Noem’s firing as a blow to Trump’s immigration agenda. They couldn’t be more wrong.
Trump isn’t retreating. He’s replacing underperformers with proven operatives. Targeted removals of those with final deportation orders, holding employers accountable, and a DHS chain of command free from political interference—that’s the engine about to drive real results.
The Democrats celebrating today are about to realize something important: the most effective part of Trump’s deportation plan hasn’t even begun.
