President-elect Donald Trump says that Tom Homan, his former acting Immigration and Customs Enforcement director, will serve as “border tsar” in his incoming administration.
“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,” he wrote late on Sunday on his Truth Social site.
Mr Homan was widely expected to rejoin Mr Trump’s second administration in a border-related role.
In addition to overseeing the southern and northern borders and “maritime, and aviation security”, Mr Trump said Mr Homan “will be in charge of all Deportation of Illegal Aliens back to their Country of Origin”, a central part of his agenda.
He says he had “no doubt” Mr Homan “will do a fantastic, and long-awaited for, job”.
Such a role does not require US Senate confirmation.
In an interview on Fox News Channel’s Sunday Morning Futures, Mr Homan said the military would not be rounding up and arresting immigrants in the country illegally and that the ICE would move to implement Mr Trump’s plans in a “humane manner”.
He said: “It’s going to be a well-targeted, planned operation conducted by the men of ICE. The men and women of ICE do this daily. They’re good at it.
“When we go out there, we’re going to know who we’re looking for. We most likely know where they’re going to be, and it’s going to be done in a humane manner.”
Earlier this year at the National Conservatism Conference in Washington, Mr Homan expressed frustration at the news coverage of a mass deportation operation.
“Wait until 2025,” he said, adding that, while he thinks the US government needs to prioritise national security threats, “no-one’s off the table. If you’re here illegally, you better be looking over your shoulder”.
He also said: “you’ve got my word. Trump comes back in January, I’ll be in his heels coming back, and I will run the biggest deportation operation this country’s ever seen.”
Sourse: breakingnews.ie
