President-elect Donald Trump announced on Sunday he will appoint the former acting head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Tom Homan, as his “Border Czar,” bringing back a key figure who oversaw his first administration’s controversial family separation policy.
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In a post on his Truth Social platform, Trump called Homan a “stalwart on Border Control” and said he “will be joining the Trump Administration, in charge of our Nation’s Borders (“The Border Czar”).”
In his “Border Czar” role Homan will oversee “the Southern Border, the Northern Border, all Maritime, and Aviation Security,” the president-elect said.
Trump hailed Homan saying there was “nobody better at policing and controlling” the borders and added that he would be “ in charge of all Deportation of Illegal Aliens back to their Country of Origin.”
In an interview with CBS News’ 60 Minutes last month, Homan staunchly defended Trump’s promise to carry out mass deportation of undocumented migrants. He said, “I hear a lot of people say, you know, the talk of a mass deportation is racist. It's...threatening to immigrant community. It's not threatening to the immigrant community. It should be threatening to the illegal immigrant community. But on the heels of [a] historic illegal immigration crisis. That has to be done.”
This is a developing story.