WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald Trump introduced late Sunday evening that Tom Homan, the previous appearing director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement who backed Trump’s controversial “zero tolerance” coverage, shall be his administration’s “border czar.”
“I’m happy to announce that the Former ICE Director, and stalwart on Border Control, Tom Homan, shall be becoming a member of the Trump Administration, accountable for our Nation’s Borders (‘The Border Czar’), together with, however not restricted to, the Southern Border, the Northern Border, all Maritime, and Aviation Security,” Trump stated in a publish to Truth Social.
“I’ve identified Tom for a very long time, and there’s no one higher at policing and controlling our Borders,” the publish continued. “Likewise, Tom Homan shall be accountable for all Deportation of Illegal Aliens again to their Country of Origin. Congratulations to Tom. I’ve little question he’ll do a unbelievable, and lengthy awaited for, job.”
Homan touts hardline immigration views and beforehand vowed to “run the most important deportation pressure this nation has ever seen.”
He was an early supporter of the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” coverage, which led to 1000’s of households being separated on the southern border. Trump finally signed an govt order in 2018 reversing the household separation coverage after public outcry.
In an interview with CBS’ “60 Minutes” that aired in October, Homan was requested whether or not there was a approach to perform mass deportations with out separating households.
“Of course there’s. Families might be deported collectively,” he responded.
Homan is a visiting fellow at The Heritage Foundation, a conservative group. He was a contributor to Project 2025’s Mandate for Leadership ebook. He can also be the president and CEO of Border911, a nonprofit group that warns of the supposed risk posed by undocumented immigrants.
NBC News has reached out to Border911 and The Heritage Foundation with requests for Homan’s remark.
“It’s going to be a well-targeted, deliberate operation performed, leaded by the boys of ICE. The women and men of ICE do that each day. They’re good at it,” Homan stated in a Sunday Fox News interview, including that deportations can be a “humane operation.”
Trump often espoused hardline, anti-migrant views on the marketing campaign path, at instances decrying migrants as “poisoning the blood of our nation,” “animals,” “gang members,” and evaluating them to the fictional cannibal Hannibal Lecter.
“They’re tough individuals, in lots of circumstances from jails, prisons, from psychological establishments, insane asylums,” he stated at a March rally, talking of migrants who enter the nation unlawfully. “You know, insane asylums, that’s ‘Silence of the Lambs’ stuff.”
Homan is the most recent one that Trump introduced will be part of his administration. Trump had beforehand introduced that Susie Wiles, his co-campaign supervisor, will function the White House chief of employees.