During the Obama administration, Alejandro Mayorkas and Tom Homan had a positive working relationship. Not so much now.
Mayorkas, then director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, and Homan, then associate director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, largely appeared to agree on immigration policy, as Homan recalls.
“I used to respect him,” Homan, tapped by President-elect Donald Trump to crack down on illegal immigration as border czar, said of Mayorkas during an interview Wednesday night with commentator Tucker Carlson.
“Under President Obama, I got a Presidential Rank Award … because I oversaw the removal of well over a million aliens during that three-year period,” Homan said on “The Tucker Carlson Show.”
“Mayorkas actually accompanied me on operations in New York City, targeting criminal aliens and illegal aliens…
