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“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.”
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Associated Press writer Adriana Gomez Licon in Fort Lauderdale,
Florida, contributed to this report.
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