Trump Decides Who Will Be Responsible for Migrants and the Border: What to Expect from Tom Homan

Experienced immigration official Tom Homan has decades of experience in law enforcement and at the border. He will be in charge of the country's borders after Trump's inauguration in January. Everyone is eagerly awaiting how he will put Trump's campaign slogans about fighting illegal immigration into practice, writes Air force.

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Homan, a former police officer and former acting director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), described the situation at the U.S. border as “the most vulnerable point in national security since 11/XNUMX.” He said it urgently needs to be fixed.

Addressing illegal immigrants in the United States during the Republican National Convention this summer, he said: "You better start packing your bags right now."

It is not yet clear what powers the newly-minted "border czar" will have, since managing immigration involves coordination between several government agencies.

However, Homan shared some ideas about how he would proceed.

On the subject: Thousands of migrants are heading to the US border, rushing to get into the country before a new president takes office

Reversing Biden's policies

In an interview with CBS News' 60 Minutes in October, Homan said he would go after noncriminal immigrants who are in the country illegally. But he would first prioritize "public safety threats" over "national security threats."

This approach would reverse the Biden administration's policy of directing ICE to focus on deporting serious criminals, national security threats and recent border crossings.

Biden's current policies help protect illegal immigrants who live in the United States and have not committed crimes.

Targeted arrests to facilitate deportation

Homan said he would use a targeted approach when carrying out arrests and deportations.

Asked in the same October interview how the deportations would be carried out, he said: "It will not be a mass cleansing of areas. We are not going to build concentration camps. I have read about this, these are ridiculous assumptions."

And then he explained: "These will be targeted arrests. We will know who we are going to arrest, where to find these people. All this data will be provided by the investigation."

Joint deportation of families

Homan played a role in Trump's controversial "zero tolerance" policy that separated thousands of migrant children from their parents.

The policy has sparked a backlash, with children being sent to orphanages and their parents being targeted with no plans for reunification.

He said he did not draft the policy memo that led to the split, but was one of three officials who signed it. Homan said he did so "in the hope of saving lives."

The immigration official assured that he would not seek to reinstate the policy. In fact, when asked whether deportations could be carried out without separating families, he said that families could be “deported together.”

Mass arrests of immigrants at workplaces

Homan pointed to a resurgence of mass arrests of immigrants in workplaces — what he calls workplace enforcement operations — that Biden ended in 2021.

“For people who are going to fight deportation, what is their option?” he asked on Fox News Channel’s “Fox & Friends” on Nov. 11. “You have the right to seek asylum. You have the right to see a judge. We make that possible. But at the end of that due process, if the judge says you should go home, we have an obligation to send illegal immigrants home.”

Homan is a policeman and border guard

Homan, 62, began his career as a New York State police officer and later became a border patrol agent, a fact he often recounts.

"I was a Border Patrolman," he told Fox & Friends on Nov. 11. "I'm proud to wear the uniform. I was the first director of ICE to come up through the ranks."

Barack Obama, the 44th president, appointed him to head the ICE's deportation division in 2013, a time when the agency carried out a record number of deportations.

Homan's work earned him the Presidential Award, the highest recognition in public service.

Trump appointed Homan as acting director of the ICE in early 2017, during his second week in office. Homan served in the post until 2018.

Trump later nominated him to be the permanent director of the immigration agency, but the Senate never confirmed his nomination.

Homan joined the conservative Heritage Foundation as a visiting fellow and is one of the authors of the 2025 Project.

(Reminder: Heritage Foundation — a conservative think tank founded in 1973. It is active in researching and developing policies to support conservative principles in U.S. politics, such as limited government, free markets, individual liberty, a strong national defense, and traditional values.

"Project 2025" — is a Heritage Foundation initiative that provides a detailed action plan for a possible new Republican administration in 2025. Its goal is to create a “conservative roadmap” for governing and reforming the U.S. government along conservative principles. As part of the project, the Heritage Foundation has assembled a coalition of other conservative organizations to produce policies, personnel recommendations, and step-by-step plans on issues such as energy, immigration, the economy, and national security. The project includes an initiative to train people for government jobs).

The 2025 Blueprint mentions increasing funding for the wall on the U.S.-Mexico border, creating a more powerful border police force and increasing fees for immigrants.

Trump distanced himself from the project during the election campaign.

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