President-elect Donald Trump says that Tom Homan, his former acting U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement director, will serve as “border czar” 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 Sunday on his Truth Social site.
Homan was widely expected to be offered a position related to the border and Trump’s pledge to launch the largest deportation operation in the country’s history.
In addition to overseeing the southern and northern borders and “maritime, and aviation security,” Trump said 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” Homan “will do a fantastic, and long awaited for, job.”
Such a role does not require Senate confirmation.
In an interview on Fox News Channel’s “Sunday Morning Futures,” Homan said the military would not be rounding up and arresting immigrants in the country illegally and that ICE would move to implement Trump’s plans in a “humane manner.”
“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,” he said. “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, Homan expressed frustration at the news coverage of a mass deportation operation.
“Wait until 2025,” he said, adding that, while he thinks the government needed to prioritize 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.”
(AP)
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Deporting the (wannabee) immigrants who are unable to support themselves and are relying on welfare to survive will raise no widespread objections. However deporting those who are being supported by the American family members (and not public assistance), or by holding jobs, will raise objections. Another way to look at it, deporting welfare recipients helps local governments and results in lower taxes for Americans, but expelling self-supporting taxpayers will result in labor shortages and lost income to local, state and federal governments.
Biden/Harris seriously messed up on immigration policy, which is why in a few weeks Biden will be involuntarily retired and Harris will be unemployed. But Trump now has an opportunity to shoot himself in the foot if he messes up (and build up his base, and note that for all purposes, Hispanic citizens were almost evenly split in the last election even though the majority of those to be deported are Hispanics).