President-elect Donald Trump wasted nary clip successful announcing selections for cardinal positions related to immigration and borderline security, rapidly announcing a borderline czar and Homeland Security secretary, but who other could beryllium appointed to the remaining positions?
Trump announced that Tom Homan volition service arsenic "border czar," overseeing deportations and borderline security, portion South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem was announced arsenic his nominee to pb the Department of Homeland Security.
But it has not yet been decided who volition service successful cardinal positions astatine Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP).
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Trump speaks astatine the U.S.-Mexico borderline connected Aug. 22, 2024, southbound of Sierra Vista, Arizona. (Rebecca Noble)
Fox News Digital understands that discussions person not yet begun successful earnest astir those positions, and whitethorn not statesman until December astatine the earliest, but aggregate sources acquainted with the concern and with the agencies successful wide spoke to Fox News Digital astir those who are apt to beryllium connected the database for cardinal positions.
Here are immoderate of the radical those sources judge could beryllium successful the moving to marque up the remainder of the Trump squad connected immigration, which volition beryllium focused connected securing the borderline and a wide deportation operation.
Todd Lyons
Lyons presently serves arsenic ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO)’s Field Office Director successful Boston. In that role, helium is starring the effort to apprehend amerciable migrant criminals, galore of whom person been released backmost onto the streets successful the Boston country aft committing crimes.
There person been a slew of precocious illustration enactment offenders nabbed by Lyons’ unit, and it’s brought attraction to the consequences of "sanctuary" metropolis policies, by which amerciable migrant criminals are released backmost onto the streets.
Lyons appears to beryllium emerging arsenic the favourite to helm the agency, peculiarly fixed his acquisition with sanctuary cities, thing that is apt to beryllium a apical precedence for the Trump administration. One root acquainted with discussions of ICE told Fox News Digital that they would beryllium shocked if Lyons were not nominated arsenic the adjacent ICE director.
Trump speaks with US Border Patrol Chief Rodney Scott (R) arsenic they enactment successful a ceremonial commemorating the 200th mile of borderline partition astatine the planetary borderline with Mexico successful San Luis, Arizona, connected June 23, 2020. (Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images)
Rodney Scott
Rodney Scott is simply a erstwhile Border Patrol main who served arsenic main from 2020 until helium was ousted by the Biden medication successful mid-2021. Since then, helium has been a fierce professional of the Biden administration’s migration policies and its handling of the situation astatine the confederate border.
He would bring acquisition arsenic a Border Patrol agent, and earlier being chief, helium had led the San Diego Sector, 1 of the astir challenging sectors successful the country. He has been highly captious of DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, and precocious accused him of having "intentionally" opened the confederate border.
"We handed them the astir unafraid borderline successful the past of the United States and a roadmap to support it that mode and marque it adjacent better, [yet] done 94 enforcement actions, President Biden wholly destroyed borderline security," Scott said this year.
Brandon Judd
Brandon Judd is the erstwhile caput of the National Border Patrol Council, which represents Border Patrol agents crossed the country. He has been an cause since 1997 and besides served arsenic an teacher astatine the academy.
Under Judd, the national was powerfully supportive of Trump and fiercely captious of the Biden administration's handling of the borderline crisis, during which determination were a fig of flashpoints betwixt the Biden medication and agents.
Judd retired arsenic president of the NBPC earlier this twelvemonth and, on with the union, has been a beardown backer of Trump's re-election campaign.
"Under President Trump, our borderline was secure, our agents were supported, migrants weren’t suffering astatine the hands of cartels, and our state was safer," helium said in August.
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John Fabbricatore
Fabbricatore is simply a retired ICE tract bureau director. In that capacity, helium oversaw Colorado and Wyoming. Before that, helium helped ICE found a fig of task forces targeting fugitives, and worked arsenic an teacher successful the ICE ERO Academy.
Since retiring successful 2022, helium has been sounding the alarm astir Tren de Aragua, the Venezuelan pack that has taken implicit flat complexes and been linked to crimes successful Colorado. He ran arsenic a Republican legislature campaigner this rhythm successful Colorado, saying helium was "running to unafraid America."
Sources told Fox News Digital that it was unclear what Fabbricatore’s relation mightiness be, but 1 said they believed Fabbricatore would "likely" beryllium progressive successful ICE successful immoderate capacity.
Jon Feere
Jon Feere is presently the Director of Investigations astatine the Center for Immigration Studies. He near CIS to articulation the migration argumentation squad connected the archetypal Trump modulation team, and went connected to service arsenic elder advisor to the ICE manager and arsenic ICE main of unit successful the archetypal administration. He rejoined CIS aft the extremity of the administration.
Feere worked intimately with Homan, present the borderline czar, astatine ICE. He has zeroed successful connected the harm caused by sanctuary metropolis policies, arsenic good arsenic what helium sees arsenic the maltreatment of employment visa programs similar Optional Practical Training. Sources suggested his acquisition of the bureau and in-depth cognition of argumentation would marque him a beardown campaigner for a presumption successful ICE enforcement.
Tony Pham
Pham served arsenic acting ICE manager from August 2020 to December 2020, having served arsenic ICE’s apical ineligible adviser. Pham is simply a Vietnamese migrant who arrived successful the U.S. successful 1975.
He oversaw a fig of operations targeting amerciable immigrants sprung from custody by "sanctuary" cities. Pham has cited his acquisition arsenic a exile arsenic thing that led him to enforcement.
"I wanted to beryllium a portion of the enforcement conception of immigration, due to the fact that what I learned is erstwhile radical cheat, oregon erstwhile they effort to cheat the system, whether it's immigration, oregon if it's a schoolhouse trial oregon whether it’s the authorities barroom exam, if they cheat they demean and diminish the lawful pathway -- what my parents endured to go lawful citizens," helium said successful an interrogation with Fox News Digital successful 2020."
Pham has been floated arsenic a imaginable campaigner to pb the agency, fixed that helium has already stepped into that relation before.
Acting ICE Director Tony Pham.
Robert Perez
Robert Perez is simply a erstwhile lawman CBP commissioner who served successful that relation during some the Trump and Biden administrations earlier leaving successful June 2021, informing astir the looming interaction of a "broken" and "porous" migration system.
He is the laminitis and co-chairman of the CBP Foundation, an enactment dedicated to supporting CBP employees and their families. While CBP would look to beryllium the champion acceptable for Perez, 1 root said helium would beryllium "phenomenal" moving successful immoderate portion of the Department of Homeland Security.
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Joe Edlow
USCIS is often an overlooked agency, and it handles migration policies regarding ineligible immigration. That enactment includes visas, asylum adjudications and the implementation of rules and restrictions.
It would beryllium the bureau spearheading the instrumentality of the nationalist complaint rule, which restricted immigrants from obtaining greenish cards if they were deemed apt to beryllium reliant connected welfare.
Edlow served arsenic the acting manager of the bureau nether the Trump administration, and helium is 1 of lone a fewer names floated arsenic a imaginable instrumentality to the agency. One root said helium was a "very serious" campaigner and had done a bully occupation starring the agency.
Rob Law
Law served during the archetypal Trump medication arsenic a elder argumentation advisor and main of argumentation astatine USCIS. He has since headed the Center for Homeland Security and Immigration astatine America First Policy Institute. He has besides been progressive with the Center for Immigration Studies, wherever helium was the manager of regulatory affairs and policy.
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He is seen arsenic a beardown candidate, fixed some his anterior acquisition of the bureau and besides his elaborate cognition of policy.
Fox News' Emma Woodhead contributed to this report.
Adam Shaw is simply a authorities newsman for Fox News Digital, chiefly covering migration and borderline security.
He tin beryllium reached astatine adam.shaw2@fox.com oregon connected Twitter.