‘They worship death’: Trump ‘border czar’ reveals extremist views in interview

The great replacement' theory, human sacrifice and torture videos: Tom Homan's talk with Tucker Carlson offered a grab bag of far-right talking points

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Donald Trump's border czar", Tom Homan, and far-right media personality Tucker Carlson talked about a bizarre range of extremist and racist conspiracy theories in an interview just weeks before Homan took office and was trusted with implementing a wide-ranging crackdown on migrants.

The conversation included Carlson's claim that Mexican cartels come from cultures that have practiced human sacrifice for thousands of years", connected the racist great replacement" theory to Biden's immigration policy, and advocated the arrest of elected US leaders who opposed Donald Trump's policies on migrants.