A former director of an immigration enforcement agency will join the second Trump administration as border czar, President-elect Donald Trump said on Nov. 10.
Thomas Homan will be “in charge of our nation’s borders,” Trump wrote on his social media platform Truth Social.
The former president said that there is nobody better at controlling the borders and that Homan, 62, “will be in charge of all Deportation of Illegal Aliens back to their Country of Origin.”
Border czar is an informal position that does not require approval from the U.S. Senate.
Homan has not yet reacted to the announcement.
He served as acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), an agency charged with protecting America from illegal immigration, from 2017 through 2018. Most deportations are carried out by ICE, which is part of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security….