Trump says former Ice director Tom Homan will be in charge of borders and deportations | Donald Trump

US President-elect Donald Trump said on Sunday that Tom Homan, the former acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), will be responsible for the country’s borders in his new administration.

Homan’s areas of control would include “the southern border, the northern border, all maritime and air security,” Trump said in a post on his Truth Social platform. Trump added that “border czar” Homan would be responsible for deporting illegal immigrants.

Homan, who spent a year and a half in the Trump administration during his first term, is also a contender for homeland security secretary.

Mass deportations – and the placement of migrants in camps – were a central part of Trump’s campaign performance. Trump spoke positively about Homan, telling Fox News host Harris Faulkner in July, “I have Tom Homan on the roster, we have the greatest people.”

Homan, a Heritage fellow and author of Project 2025, said at the Republican National Convention this summer in Milwaukee that he had “a message to the millions of illegal aliens that Joe Biden has allowed into the country in violation of federal law – catch it.” to start packing, because you will be going home.”

At a panel discussion on immigration policy in July, Homan said: “Trump is coming back in January, I will be on his heels when he returns and lead the largest deportation force this country has ever seen.”

Homan also reportedly accepted an invitation to a white nationalist conference hosted by Nick Fuentes, the Holocaust denier and Hitler admirer who dined with Trump and Kanye West at Mar-a-Lago in 2022.

On Thursday, Homan told Fox News he had “not taken any political action or … asked for a Cabinet position” and no offer had been made. But he added: “President Trump knows that if he needs help securing this border, I’ll be there. If he needs help carrying out a deportation operation, I’ll be there.”

The president-elect is meeting with potential candidates for his administration ahead of his inauguration as president on January 20.

CNN reported Sunday that Trump offered Republican Rep. Elise Stefanik the job as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.

With Reuters