President-elect Trump announced that Tom Homan, the former acting head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) during the Republican's first-term, will be in charge of U.S. borders in his second administration. Trump had vowed to tap Homan, who had a role in the controversial family separation policy during the first Trump administration, Axios reports. Homan has been a strong supporter of Trump's mass deportation plans, which would include the mobilization of ICE agents, the FBI and the Drug Enforcement Administration, along with federal prosecutors, the National Guard and state and local law enforcement officers.
Homan has promised to deport people in the U.S. without authorization and warned that Trump would designate Mexican cartels a "terrorist organization" for their role in getting fentanyl across the border. 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," Trump said on his Truth Social platform. There "is nobody better at policing and controlling our Borders," said Trump, who added that Homan "will be in charge of all Deportation of Illegal Aliens back to their Country of Origin." Homan said on Fox News that the military would not be rounding up and arresting suspects in the deportation plan. "It's going to be done in a humane manner," he said.
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