US President-elect Donald Trump announced on Sunday that Tom Homan, the former acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), will be in charge of the border in his new administration.
In a post on his Truth Social platform, President Trump said Homan’s territory included “the southern border, the northern border, and all maritime and air security.” Trump added that Homan, the “border czar,” will be in charge of deporting illegal immigrants.
Homan served a year and a half in the Trump administration’s first term and is also a candidate for Secretary of Homeland Security.
Mass deportations and encampment of immigrants were a key part of Mr. Trump’s campaign pitch. President Trump spoke favorably of Homan to Fox News host Harris Faulkner in July, saying, “I have Tom Homan. We have the best people.”
Homan, a Heritage Fellow and author of Project 2025, said at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee this summer, “Joe Biden has a message for the millions of illegal aliens he has allowed into the country in violation of federal law.” “There is,” he said. house. “
“Trump is coming back in January, and I’m coming back after him,” Homan said during a panel discussion on immigration policy in July. I intend to lead,” he said.
Homan also attended a white supremacist conference hosted by Nick Fuentes, a Holocaust denier and Hitler admirer who dined with Trump and Kanye West at Mar-a-Lago in 2022. It is reported that he accepted the invitation.
On Thursday, Homan told Fox News that he had “not been politically active and had never sought a cabinet position” and had not received any offers. But “I know if President Trump needs help securing the border, which I’m standing by. If he needs help with a deportation operation, I’m standing by.”
The president-elect is meeting with potential candidates for his administration ahead of his inauguration on January 20th.
CNN reported Sunday that President Trump has offered Republican Congresswoman Elise Stefanik the position of U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.
Reuters
