By Steve Neavling
ticklethewire.com
Thomas Homan, who was President Trump’s first acting ICE director, pledged to run against U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, a New York Democrat and former presidential candidate who has suggested abolishing ICE.
Homan said he’s tired of listening to Gillibrand’s anti-ICE rhetoric and wants to remove her from her Senate seat.
“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,” Homan said on Larry O’Connor’s “Examining Politics” podcast.
Homan, who served as ICE director from January 2017 to June 2018, acknowledged he’s no longer a New York resident but would return to the state to run against Gillibrand.
Gillibrand became the first sitting senator to join the “Abolish ICE” movement in June 2019. Since then, president candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders said he also wants to abolish ICE.
Homan defended the agency and its agents, saying, “ICE are the good guys.”
