White House border czar Tom Homan confronted a protester Thursday during a Turning Point USA event at the University of Texas at El Paso after the individual repeatedly shouted accusations while Homan spoke about immigration enforcement, as reported by Fox News.
Homan was addressing the audience when an attendee called him a “racist” and “traitor.” Homan immediately responded, telling the individual, “Call me what you want, I don’t care.”
He then challenged the protester directly, saying:
“Why don’t you grow a backbone, put a Kevlar vest and a gun on your hip and go secure this border?”
Later in the event, while Homan was taking questions, a man who appeared to be the same protester linked Homan’s prior public statements to Patrick Crusius, the gunman responsible for the 2019 mass shooting at a Walmart in El Paso.
The protester claimed that Crusius was “inspired” by Homan and that “the Great Replacement is now a mainstream conservative narrative.”
The protester alleged, “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,” and further argued that the belief has been “fully integrated into mainstream media.”
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Homan responded by clarifying his own remarks about border policy. “To be honest, what I said was the open border was an action, was a mess, and it was by design,” he said.
Homan has previously argued that the Biden administration deliberately kept the southern border unsecured to build a long-term Democratic voting bloc, though he acknowledged in congressional testimony that he does not have evidence to support this allegation.
Crusius, who left his grandparents’ home in Allen, Texas, and drove roughly 650 miles to El Paso before the attack, was sentenced earlier this year to life without parole after pleading guilty to state charges.
He also pleaded guilty in 2023 to 90 federal murder and hate crime charges and received 90 consecutive life sentences.
His manifesto contained white nationalist themes and referenced the Great Replacement Theory as part of his motivation for the shooting.
The exchange at the TPUSA event drew significant attention from the audience, with Homan continuing his speech after the confrontation.
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