Trump announces Tom Homan as incoming border czar
President-elect Donald Trump announced late that Tom Homan, the former acting director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, will be his administration's "border czar."
WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald Trump announced late Sunday that Tom Homan, the former acting director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement who backed his controversial "zero tolerance" policy, will be his administration's "border czar."
"I am pleased to announce that the Former ICE Director, and stalwart on Border Control, Tom Homan, will be joining the Trump Administration, in charge of our Nation’s Borders ('The Border Czar'), including, but not limited to, the Southern Border, the Northern Border, all Maritime, and Aviation Security," Trump said on Truth Social.
"I’ve known Tom for a long time, and there is nobody better at policing and controlling our Borders," the post continued. "Likewise, Tom Homan will be in charge of all Deportation of Illegal Aliens back to their Country of Origin. Congratulations to Tom. I have no doubt he will do a fantastic, and long awaited for, job."
Homan touts hard-line immigration views and previously vowed to “run the biggest deportation force this country has ever seen.”
Two people familiar with the decision told NBC News that Homan will have power over policy including, potentially, mass deportations. They said Homan was not vying to be the Department of Homeland Security Secretary — a job one official described as “all of the work and all of the blame,” based on Trump’s frequent firings of DHS Secretaries in his first administration.
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