ICE group praises Trump for Homan, Noem picks to lead immigration team: ‘Fired up’

FIRST ON FOX: A instrumentality enforcement relation made up of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) employees is backing President-elect Donald Trump’s choices to caput his migration squad adjacent twelvemonth arsenic it seeks to motorboat an ambitious wide deportation program -- with the radical saying ICE agents and officers are "fired up."

In a connection obtained by Fox News Digital, the Executive Board of the National ICE Officers Association said it offers its "strong support" for the assignment of erstwhile acting ICE Director Thomas Homan arsenic borderline czar, and the information of South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem to pb the Department of Homeland Security.

"Former Director Homan is 1 of america and knows precisely what it takes to bash the occupation and marque our communities safe," the connection said.

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Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials looking to apprehension an amerciable migrant with a transgression grounds raid a location connected Thursday, Sept. 8, 2022 successful Los Angeles. (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

The radical is simply a recently established instrumentality enforcement relation for members of ICE who service successful the agency's Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) branch. It was established this twelvemonth and is successful the process of seeking to go the exclusive national for the agency. 

The radical likewise praised the enactment of Noem arsenic the Department of Homeland Security nominee.

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"As 1 of America’s toughest governors and idiosyncratic who has kept her citizens safe, we person implicit and full assurance that Gov. Noem volition bring astir the changes we desperately request to bash our jobs and support the American people," the radical says.

"The men and women of ICE ERO are fired up and acceptable to spell get to work."

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ICE volition beryllium successful the spotlight adjacent twelvemonth arsenic the Trump medication moves to ramp up deportations of amerciable immigrants crossed the U.S. The modulation squad has already been eyeing a significant enlargement of detention successful bid to facilitate the operation, with an summation successful beds and expanded detention capableness adjacent large metropolitan areas.

Those efforts are already drafting important absorption from Democratic officials successful immoderate states. The governors of Illinois, Arizona and Massachusetts person said they would not assistance the medication successful the operation. However, some Republican states person offered support, with Texas offering much than 1,400 acres of onshore to signifier wide deportations adjacent the border.

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South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem gestures arsenic she speaks astatine the Calvin Coolidge Foundation league astatine the Library of Congress connected Feb. 17, 2023 successful Washington, D.C. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Fox News Digital reported past week that an announcement of who President-elect Trump volition prime to pb ICE is expected imminently. The modulation squad is understood to beryllium looking for idiosyncratic with a heavy instrumentality enforcement inheritance to pb the agency.