Trump names Tom Homan as “Border Czar” in new administration

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump has appointed Tom Homan, his former Director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), as the head of national border control operations, a role he has termed “The Border Czar.”

Announcing the appointment on his social media platform, Truth Social, on Monday, Trump stated that Homan will oversee comprehensive border management, including the Southern and Northern Borders, as well as all maritime and aviation security measures.

Homan’s responsibilities will also include the deportation of undocumented immigrants, whom Trump referred to as “Illegal Aliens,” ensuring they are returned to their countries of origin.

He wrote, “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”), including, but not limited to, the Southern Border, the Northern Border, all Maritime, and Aviation Security.

“I’ve known Tom for a long time, and there is nobody better at policing and controlling our Borders.

“Likewise, Tom Homan will be in charge of all Deportation of Illegal Aliens back to their Country of Origin. Congratulations to Tom. I have no doubt he will do a fantastic, and long awaited for, job.”

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Homan served as the acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Trump’s last administration, when he served as the public face of Trump’s last administration’s aggressive efforts to step up immigration enforcement before he retired in 2018.

Homan also served temporarily in the role from the beginning of the Trump administration, though he was never confirmed by the US Senate, because he had already been the deputy in line for the job.

Homan had been reported to have often taken the microphone including at White House briefings to defend his agents’ arrests of undocumented immigrants, to call for more robust enforcement and to attack “sanctuary city” policies.

He was reported to have at one point told the US Congress that undocumented immigrants “should be afraid.”