Trump administration border czar Tom Homan appeared on This Week yesterday with Jonathan Karl. Homan seems to me to have made some good points on the anomalies in the Democrats’ championing the cause of Senator Chris Van Hollen’s new friend “Kilmar.” I have posted the segment with Homan at the bottom. Transcript of the entire This Week program is posted here.
Having written about Van Hollen’s mission to El Salvador a few times, I was curious who underwrote it. Homan states in passing that it was funded by taxpayers. A related New York Post story quotes Rep. Mark Green: “If Democrats care so much about defending this individual, they can use their own personal credit cards—not taxpayers’ money—to virtue-signal to their radical base.”
Homan also observes: “[T]he day before [Van Hollen] traveled, an illegal alien was arrested for murder was released in the streets rather than honoring an ICE detainer in his very own state.”
I wondered about that too. Looking around online, I found that ICE posted an April 15 notice on a case that answers to Homan’s description here.
Van Hollen preceded Homan on This Week. Maryland’s resistance to the enforcement of immigration law sits uncomfortably with Van Hollen’s alleged mission as he stated it: “My mission and my purpose is to make sure that we uphold the rule of law because if we take it away for — from him, we do jeopardize it for everybody else.” Chalk it up as one more anomaly in a case full of them. Jed Rubenfeld’s Free Press column on the case helps puts Van Hollen’s claims “in context,” as they say.
Homan comes close to referring to Van Hollen as “Van Halen.” As the big Van Halen hit “Jump” puts it, “You got to roll with the punches and get to what’s real.”
