(Daily Mail) Donald Trump announced late Sunday that his former ICE director Tom Homan would serve as ‘border czar’ to oversee the largest deportation of immigrants in US history.
The president elect, 78, said on Truth Social that Homan would oversee the country’s borders in the incoming administration just days after his landslide victory against Vice President Kamala Harris.
‘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.
‘I’ve known Tom for a long time, and there is nobody better at policing and controlling our Borders.’
It comes after Homan said that Trump will use the US Army to round up and deport ‘the worst of the worst’ illegal migrants in an unparalleled crackdown.
Homan said all of the estimated 20 million people residing in the US illegally would be targeted by the unprecedented campaign. ‘Bottom line: if you come to the country illegally, you’re not off the table,’ he added.
Tom Homan, former Acting Director of US Immigration and and Customs Enforcement, was appointed to the incoming administration
The new ‘border czar’ is expected to oversee the mass deportation of illegal immigrants
Homan, who was head of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) during Trump’s first stint in the White House, said he would revive the president elect’s ‘remain in Mexico‘ program, in which Mexicans would have their asylum applications processed on their side of the border.
He also promised to close the southern border and build a wall – another flagship Trump pledge.
But the former immigration chief dismissed any suggestion that concentration camps could be used to hold migrants rounded up in the deportation program.
Instead he said he would explore possible arrangements for asylum seekers to be processed in third countries – in an echo of the Rwanda scheme previously touted under Britain before being ditched by Prime MInister Keir Starmer’s Labour government.
Newly built holding centers could be built in the US alongside a larger role for the military in transporting refugees, the Times reported.
‘It’s going to be a lot different to what the liberal media is saying it’s going to be’, Mr Homan said.
Trump said Homan will be in charge of ‘all Deportation of Illegal Aliens back to their Country of Origin.’
Homan was asked during an interview on 60 Minutes last month whether large scale deportation could take place without separating families.
‘Of course there is. Families can be deported together,’ he said bluntly.
Tom Homan (left) will serve as ‘border czar’ in the Trump Administration
