trump administration

tom homan:

  • title: “border czar”

  • role: charged with overlooking Trump’s promised mass deportation

    • unofficial cabinet position

  • experience: former acting ICE director in Trump administration, headed “zero tolerance” policy, separating thousands of child immigrants, leaving them in camps, whilst parents weren’t allowed to enter

    • also ICE officer under Obama

  • personal ideologies: immigration views based on “commitment to rule of law and national security”

    • strict enforcement of immigration of immigration laws is intertwined laws with concerns about security, criminal activity n economic impact