The keynote speaker at the 44th Annual Law Enforcement Appreciation Dinner and Children’s Charity Fundraiser on Wednesday was “border czar” Tom Homan.
Homan was allegedly videotaped accepting a $50,000 cash payment as a bribe from undercover FBI agents posing as businessmen to help them win government contracts in a second Trump administration. As White House Executive Associate Director for Enforcement and Removal Operations at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), he, along with Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem, is responsible for hundreds of agents also caught on video violating numerous laws in their efforts to round up and deport undocumented immigrants. Perhaps Homan was not the best choice as keynote speaker. The optics aren’t good from a law enforcement perspective.
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