President-elect Donald Trump announced that Thomas Homan will be the new “border czar.” Homan will return to the interim position he held in the previous Republican administration to apply the immigration deportation policy.
Homan was involved in his previous mandate in a controversial initiative that involved the separation of families of undocumented immigrants and that was designed by one of the main advisors of the first Trump Administration, Stephen Miller.
Under that initiative, children crossing the southern border into USA Without legal permission, they were separated from their parents or other adults so that these people could be criminally prosecuted.
This policy began in 2017, in the first term of Trumpand escalated in early 2018 before the administration abandoned it after large numbers of Americans denounced it as inhumane.
“I am pleased to announce that (Tom Homan) the former director of ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) and faithful defender of border control, Tom Homanwill join the administration Trump to take charge of our nation’s borders,” the president-elect himself announced last night in a message on his social network “Truth.”
62 years old, Homan is a former police officer and government official that, as he remembered Trumpwas, during his first administration, interim director of the ICE, a position that he could never officially occupy since it was not ratified by the US Senate.
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Homan has defined himself as a faithful follower of the policies of Trump in the field of illegal immigration and supports the announcement that the president-elect made during the electoral campaign that if he won the election, would order the largest deportation of undocumented immigrants in the history of the United States.
Currently, It is estimated that there are 11 million undocumented immigrants residing in the country (3% of the population) and Nearly 80% have been residing in the United States for more than a decade.
“I hear a lot of people say that talk of mass deportation is racist. It’s a threat to the immigrant community. And it’s not. It should be a threat to the illegal immigrant community. And Right after a historic illegal immigration crisis, that’s something that needs to be done“Homan said in a recent interview with CBS.
An interview in which he made clear some of the priorities of what his mandate could be if he joined Trump’s team again.
In this way, when asked: What would the largest deportation in the history of the United States be like for him?, he said “Well, let me tell you what it is not going to be. It is not going to be a massive neighborhood cleanup. It is not going to be the construction of concentration camps. I have read everything. “It’s ridiculous.”
He stressed that what he would do is a policy of “selective arrests. “We will know who we are going to arrest, where it is most likely to find them based on numerous investigative processes,” he said.
He also said that if he were to become responsible for immigration policy will prioritize national security and threats to public safety.
“It’s not okay to enter a country illegally, which is a crime. That’s what drives illegal immigration, when there are no consequences. The administration Biden–Harris has shown it: you can arrive at the border, surrender and be released in 24 hours,” he criticized.
He also denied being the “father of Trump’s family separation policy”: “It’s not true,” he said. “I didn’t write the memo to separate families. I signed the memo. Why did I sign it? I was hoping to save lives. As you and I are talking right now, a child is going to die at the border. So we thought, maybe if we prosecute people, they’ll stop coming.”
And although he then said yes Trump won a second term, that policy is something to consider, he recognized that a policy of mass deportations would not deter immigrants from illegally crossing the border, since “people will continue to try to come in search of a better life.”
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