The Border Czar’s Inner Circle Revealed: Are Anti-Muslim Hate Groups Influencing Tom Homan’s Immigration Crackdown?
“Islam is the enemy.” These are the words of Tom Trento, founder of The United West, an organization designated as an anti-Muslim hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center. It is also the same organization that Tom Homan – the Trump administration’s ‘Border Czar’ – has reportedly collaborated with as recently as May 2025, and even apparently tapped in 2020 to help run his border project, described as a “two-year educational program on the crisis at our southern border.”
University of California, Irvine (UCI)
Total Points: 27%
Rating: ‘Hostile Campus’
The United West
Read more about CAIR’s designation of The United West as an Islamophobic organization.
Randy Fine
Randy Fine (R-FL) serves as the U.S. Representative for Florida’s 6th congressional district. For years, he has invoked Islamophobic and anti-Palestinian stereotypes and incited violence against Muslims and Palestinians at home and abroad.
University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMass Amherst)
Total Points: 37%
Rating: ‘Hostile Campus’
Project Esther: The Heritage Foundation’s Anti-Palestinian Racist Roadmap to Support Genocide While Erasing Its Progressive Political Opposition at Home
The Heritage Foundation’s Project Esther weaponizes both its architects’ anti-Palestinian racism and the concept that speech critical of Israel is criminal. At the very least, Project Esther’s architects hope that voices supporting basic international humanitarian ideals–access to food, water, shelter, freedom from indiscriminate detention or murder, freedom from occupation, apartheid, and genocide in accordance with […]
Christians United for Israel (CUFI)
Read more about CAIR’s designation of Christians United for Israel (CUFI) as an Islamophobic organization.
Johns Hopkins University (JHU)
Total Points: 37%
Rating: ‘Hostile Campus’
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
Total Points: 37%
Rating: ‘Hostile Campus’
Terminated: Employment Discrimination at the Core of Islamophobia and Anti-Palestinian Racism
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) is today releasing a new analysis on the role of US employers in targeting Palestinians, Muslims, Arabs, and other workers who demonstrate support for Palestinian rights.