By Steve Neavling
Tom Homan, the former head of ICE and now a top immigration adviser to President Donald Trump, said he and his wife are living apart due to ongoing death threats and the demands of his job.
“My wife’s living separately from me right now, mainly because I worked for many hours, but mostly because of the death threats against me,” Homan said on the Pod Force One podcast. “I see her as much as I can, but the death threats against me and my family are outrageous.”
Homan, who rejoined Trump’s team for the 2024 campaign after working in the private sector during the Biden administration, said his return meant giving up a higher salary and putting personal plans on hold.
“She’s in the middle of remodeling — months of stuff — and all that stopped because I’m leaving the private sector, going back to a government paycheck,” Homan said.
Despite the financial strain and security concerns, Homan said his wife encouraged him to take the job.
“She said, ‘You need to go back or we’ll get divorced … because if you don’t go back, you’ll be waking up every day, pissed off that you didn’t go back, and I’ve gotta live with four more years of you being pissed off, so go back and do the job,’” he said.
Homan said he has no regrets, even after protesters showed up outside his lake house in Upstate New York.
“I’m not going anywhere,” he said. “I’m not going away, ’cause I know how important it is to secure our border.”
He also defended a controversial ICE operation in Los Angeles that led to widespread protests and a military presence at federal buildings.
“We were serving three criminal arrest warrants … it was a criminal investigation that happened to deal with money laundering, tax evasion and customs fraud,” he said. “We know that in the Garment District, there is strong suspicion that some of that funding is sent to Mexico and Colombia to fund cartel activity, so it was a criminal investigation.”