Thomas Homan, former director of ICE under the Trump administration, said that “the cartels watch everything we do at DHS, they get the same reports we do,” and they use the information to benefit themselves. 

“Even with Mexico being the low denominator, they showed a high percentage of Mexicans claiming asylum.” Homan told Dan Proft on a recent episode of the Counterculture podcast, produced by American Greatness. “Now the chances of a Mexican national getting asylum is pretty much zero, we know that. I mean, we vacation to Mexico, we know how dangerous that country may not be. But the DHS right now is approving asylum applications at 95% or above.”

“So as that information gets out, the cartels use it,” Homan said. “Now they’re selling to Mexican nationals, then they get across the border, you can claim asylum cause now they’re at a 95% [acceptance] rate.”

Full episodes of the podcast can be viewed on Youtube or the American Greatness website. 

A former police officer, Homan was the acting director of ICE under President Trump from January 2017 to June 2018.

A native of West Carthage, N.Y., Homan attended Jefferson Community College and SUNY Polytechnic Institute. He was a police officer in West Carthage before joining ICE (then called the Immigration and Naturalization Service) in 1984.

Barack Obama appointed Homan to the position of Executive Associate Director of ICE in 2013.