He Went To A White Supremacist Conference. He Just Spoke At The RNC.

MILWAUKEE — On Wednesday evening, Thomas Homan, who oversaw former President Donald Trump’s brutal anti-immigrant regime as head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, stepped onto the main stage of the Republican National Convention and described immigrants as an existential threat to America.

“This isn’t mismanagement,” Homan said of President Joe Biden’s border polices. “This isn’t incompetence. This is by design. It’s a choice. This is national suicide!”

Trump recently promised to rehire Homan if he retakes the White House — something Homan described as inevitable.

“I have a message for the millions of illegal aliens who Joe Biden allowed to enter the country in violation of federal law,” Homan said. “Start packing, because you’re going home!”

The crowd roared.

Only two years ago, Homan was invited to speak at a much smaller event: the America First Political Action Conference, a white supremacist confab organized by Nick Fuentes, the head of the deeply racist and antisemitic “groyper” movement. HuffPost first reported that Homan was scheduled to speak at the 2022 event, with Homan explaining that his assistant had arranged his appearance and that they may have confused Fuentes’ group with another right-wing group. In his telling, it was only when Homan was actually at AFPAC, sitting at a table preparing his remarks, that he decided to do a Google search for Fuentes’ name.

Google shot back article after article labeling Fuentes a white nationalist, but Homan had been skeptical — he felt he knew what it was like to unfairly be labeled a “racist.” Then he read an article about Fuentes praising Russian President Vladimir Putin for invading Ukraine. That was a bridge too far for Homan. He got up and left before