At a Turning Point USA event on December 4, 2025, at the University of Texas at El Paso, White House border czar Tom Homan confidently stared down a heckler shouting “racist” and “traitor” during his speech on immigration enforcement.
Homan dismissed the insults, challenging the protesters to “grow a backbone” and secure the border themselves. Still not done, the heckler cynically attempted to link Homan’s actions to devastating national tragedies. Homan defended his stance, calling the open border a deliberate “mess” to create Democratic voters.
Starting off the chaotic scene, the left-wing disruptor yielded tired, woke insults. “Racist,” he yelled, adding, “Traitor.” Unperturbed, Homan answered, “Call me what you want, I don’t care,” before adding, “Why don’t you grow a backbone, put a Kevlar vest and a gun on your hip and go secure this border?”
Continuing to slander the border czar, the protestor claimed, “Patrick Crusius, your everyday conservative, drove hundreds of miles to our city based on your belief that Hispanics are replacing the white race of White people, and we need a scare to deter Hispanics from coming into the country.”
Additionally, he alleged, the Great Replacement is now a mainstream conservative narrative, and claimed it was “fully integrated into mainstream media.” Homan retorted, “To be honest, what I said was the open border was an action, was a mess, and it was by design.”
Conservatives were out in numbers to support Homan’s strong response. “President Donald Trump’s border czar, Tom Homan, fired back at a heckler… brushing off being called a ‘racist’ and a ‘traitor’ and challenging critics to take responsibility for securing the border,” one viral post read.
This is far from the first time Homan has attacked the left for creating the border crisis. “The Democrats control Congress, they need to let the American people know what is going on at the southern border,” he insightfully explained.
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Digging into the details, he added, “Look, and believe me, the administration is not going to be upset with Secretary Mayorkas because he’s doing exactly what they designed, right? They created this crisis. They knew they were creating this crisis. This is an open borders agenda.”
Watch the clip of Homan toasting the Heckler here:
Continuing his argument, Homan criticized specific Democrats, saying, “Mayorkas is a hero to the administration because he’s continuing down that road, open borders. They’re not apologetic. They haven’t done one thing to stop this crisis, not one thing they’ve done to slow the flow.” Understandably annoyed, he added, “Matter of fact, they’ve sent hundreds of Border Patrol agents down there from the northern border to do what? To process aliens and release them quicker.”
Making the cost clear, he noted, “They’re not sending Border Patrol agents down there to try to secure the border and put more agents on the line to stop the fentanyl, the gang members and the human trafficking. And the women from being assaulted by the cartels. And the children dying.”
Concluding his comments, Homan said, “They’re settling down there to release them quicker so we don’t have the optics we had on Fox last week of you know several thousand under the bridge. This is about managing the optics, not about fixing the problem.”
Featured image credit: screengrab from the embedded video