Who is Donald Trump’s new border czar Tom Homan?

THOMAS Douglas Home is an migration authoritative who has worked for some President Obama and President Trump.

The arguable official, who antecedently told amerciable immigrants to "be afraid", has been chosen by Trump to serve arsenic his borderline czar successful his 2nd administration. 

Early career

Tom was calved successful West Carthage, New York, and graduated from Jefferson Community College with an subordinate grade successful Criminal Justice. 

After obtaining a bachelor’s grade from SUNY Polytechnic Institute, helium began serving arsenic a constabulary officer.

In 1984, helium joined the Immigration and Naturalization Service which was aboriginal breached up into 3 antithetic agencies including Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

President Barack Obama appointed him arsenic ICE's enforcement subordinate manager of enforcement and removal operations successful 2013.

Just a twelvemonth later, Tom began to reason that children should beryllium separated from their parents erstwhile they transverse the borderline to deter immigrants from trying to participate the USA. 

Despite his statements, helium was handed a Presidential Rank Award by Barack Obama successful 2015. 

From Obama to Trump

On January 30, 2017, President Donald Trump appointed Tom arsenic the acting manager of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

In May that aforesaid year, Tom announced that ICE had arrested 41,319 radical betwixt inauguration time and April 2017.

He past declared that amerciable immigrants “should beryllium afraid”. 

In April 2018, helium took his presumption 1 measurement further.

He advised the Secretary of Homeland Security to instrumentality a zero tolerance argumentation connected immigration, which would effect successful the prosecution of parents and the breaking up of families. 

Just 2 months later, helium decided to discontinue from his presumption but helium has remained progressive successful politics.

The Heritage Foundation

Tom joined the Heritage Foundation successful 2022 and contributed to Project 2025, its privation assistance for a Trump presidency. 

Project 2025 supports:

• The full national bureaucracy, including the Department of Justice, being placed nether statesmanlike control. 
• The elimination of visa categories for transgression and quality trafficking victims. 
• Increased backing for Donald Trump’s borderline wall.
• The dismantling of the Department of Homeland Security to make a tougher force.
• Increased fees connected immigrants.
• Slashing national spending connected renewable energy. 
• A prohibition connected pornography.
• A prohibition connected the presumption “sexual orientation”, “reproductive rights” and “abortion” from laws and national regulations.
• Withdrawing the termination pill mifepristone from the market.
• The Department of Health and Human Services taking a "biblically based, societal science-reinforced explanation of matrimony and family".

Trump 2.0 

On November 10, 2024, Trump announced that helium was nominating Tom for the relation of borderline czar successful his 2nd administration. 

Immigration was 1 of Trump's run themes and is 1 of the starring issues for voters successful America.

During his statement with Democratic nominee Kamala Harris, Trump suggested that immigrants were eating cats and dogs who belonged to the citizens of Springfield, Ohio.

Trump has besides said that helium plans to deport millions of amerciable immigrants contempt the tremendous magnitude of wealth that this would cost.

However, conscionable months earlier Trump's victory, Tom had already said that helium was readying to tally the “biggest deportation unit this state had ever seen”.

Tom is 1 of the slightest astonishing appointments by Trump, who has handed a authorities occupation to tech billionaire Elon Musk.

Musk volition caput up the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), which hopes to slim down the government.

The acronym DOGE is simply a notation to Musk's favourite cryptocurrency Dogecoin, which is named aft an net meme.

Trump has besides nominated Tulsi Gabbard to go the Director of National Intelligence, contempt disapproval of her stance of Syria and Ukraine.