Hardline immigration official Tom Homan will be in charge of overseeing the United States’s borders in the incoming Republican administration, President-elect Donald Trump has said.
“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’],” Trump posted on his social network Truth Social late on Sunday.
“I’ve known Tom for a long time, and there is nobody better at policing and controlling our Borders,” he wrote, adding that Homan will be in charge of “all Deportation of Illegal Aliens back to their Country of Origin”.
Such a role does not require confirmation from the US Senate.
Trump, 78, has pledged to launch – on day one of his presidency – the largest deportation operation of undocumented migrants in US history. Trump, who never conceded his 2020 loss, sealed a remarkable comeback to the presidency in the November 5 vote.
In 2017, when Homan was acting director of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) during Trump’s first administration, the number of immigrants arrested soared by nearly 40 percent compared with the previous year.
The belief that there are no barriers for people who want to enter the country has been a central part of the Trump campaign – a rhetoric that portrays immigrants as criminals and a drain on the country’s resources.
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