President-elect Trump announced late Sunday that Tom Homan, the former acting head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in his first-term, will be in charge of U.S. borders during his second administration.
The big picture: The president-elect indicated during the election campaign that if reelected he'd tap Homan, who had a role in the controversial family separation policy during the first Trump administration.
- Homan has been a strong supporter of Trump's mass deportation plans, which Axios reported in February would see the mobilization of ICE agents, the FBI and the Drug Enforcement Administration, along with federal prosecutors, the National Guard and state and local law enforcement officers.
- Homan vowed in July to deport people in the country without authorization and warned that Trump would designate Mexican cartels a "terrorist organization" for their role in getting fentanyl across the border.
Driving the news: 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 in a post on his Truth Social platform.
- There "is nobody better at policing and controlling our Borders," said Trump, who added that Homan "will be in charge of all Deportation of Illegal Aliens back to their Country of Origin."
What he's saying: "It's going to be a well-targeted, planned operation conducted, leading by the men of ICE," Homan said on Fox News' "Sunday Morning Futures," emphasizing that the military would not be rounding up and arresting suspects in the deportation plan.
