The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today released a new report exposing Trump administration border czar Tom Homan’s associations with anti-Muslim hate groups, including an extremist organization dedicated to opposing what it calls “the Satanic choke-hold of Islam” in America and another that declares that any practicing American Muslim cannot be a “loyal citizen” of the United States.
In a statement, CAIR Research & Advocacy Director Corey Saylor said:
“Border czar Tom Homan’s ongoing ties to anti-Muslim extremists who consider American Muslims unworthy of the Constitution’s protections are deeply disturbing and unacceptable. It is reasonable to ask how connections influence his decisions to target people who are often simply saying genocide is wrong.”
The report reads in part: “At first blush, Homan’s recent work appears to be an extension of his extreme stance on immigration; Homan has been called the ‘architect’ of family separation policies at the border, a policy so severe it “may have constituted torture.”
Yet, it appears that there may be something more behind the ‘Border Czar’: an apparent comfort with the ideology and company of anti-Muslim bigots and Islamophobic hate groups.
Since at least 2020 and continuing until at least May 2025, Homan has publicly collaborated with anti-Muslim extremist and conspiracy theorist Tom Trento. Trento’s hate group The United West touts a mission to “educate and activate freedom-minded people to effectively develop strategies and tactics… against the Satanic choke-hold of Islam…” Among Trento’s many other anti-Muslim statements include explicitly claiming that “Islam is the enemy” and spreading the Islamophobic conspiracy theory that the “Muslim Brotherhood has infiltrated America” through American Muslims.
Despite Trento’s long-standing record of anti-Muslim rhetoric, Homan was apparently slated to participate in a tour to Israel alongside Tom Trento in 2025. The tour was framed as both a visit to biblical sites and a “fact-finding expedition to learn why border walls, barriers and fences work to secure national sovereignty & save lives.”
Homan has also been associated with Brigette Gabriel’s ACT for America, designated an anti-Muslim hate group by according to the Southern Poverty Law Center. Homan was listed as a “special dinner gala honoree” for a convention held by the group in 2018.
ACT once was considered the nation’s largest anti-Muslim hate group. Its founder Brigitte Gabriel infamously said to an audience of U.S. military and national security personnel, “If a Muslim who has — who is — a practicing Muslim who believes the word of the Koran to be the word of Allah, who abides by Islam, who goes to mosque and prays every Friday, who prays five times a day — this practicing Muslim, who believes in the teachings of the Koran, cannot be a loyal citizen to the United States of America.”
SEE: Islamophobic Organization: ACT for America
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CONTACT: CAIR National Deputy Director Edward Ahmed Mitchell, 404-285-9530, e-Mitchell@cair.com; CAIR Government Affairs Director Robert McCaw, 202-742-6448, rmccaw@cair.com; CAIR National Communications Director Ibrahim Hooper, 202-744-7726, ihooper@cair.com; CAIR National Communications Manager Ismail Allison, 202-770-6280, iallison@cair.com