We're going to deport these people.
We're going to get them out of our country.
Immediately after an aggressive campaign centered around mass deportation and
a closed border, Donald Trump tapped Thomas Holman to be
the White House.
Borders are first, his bio.
Homan's career in immigration enforcement spans decades.
A former Border Patrol agent, he was tapped in 2013
to lead the deportation branch of ICE under then President
Barack Obama.
That year, ICE deported more than 432,000 people.
In 2017, Donald Trump nominated Homan for ICE director.
He served in an acting role but was never confirmed
by the Senate and left in 2018.
Second, the Trump factor.
Trump and Homan clearly have a good working relationship.
You know, Tom Homan, you said did the greatest job
in the history of the border.
Every president I've worked for said they're going to secure
the border.
President Trump actually did it.
The two share a vision of tough immigration policy.
You're in the country legally, you shouldn't feel caught through.
Absolutely.
Now you are a criminal and you're not off the
table.
And we will begin the largest deportation operation in the
history of the United States.
And this isn't the first time Trump has tried to
make Homan borders.
Are Tom Holman's coming back?
Yeah.
Tom Harmon's coming back.
That'll I I would say that would be announced next
week, except I'd rather announce it now.
Holman was surprised by the announcement, though, and never accepted
the position.
Fast forward and Trump still wants Holman as his borders
are.
The move signals he's serious about his harsh rhetoric and
that he trusts Holman to carry out his agenda.
But Holman is no stranger to controversy.
As acting ICE director, he helped design and carry out
Trump's 0 tolerance policy, which led to the separation of
more than 5000 children from their parents.
And even after the policy drew fierce backlash, Holman continued
to defend it.
I recommend a 0 tolerance, which includes family separation, the
same as is whatever U.S.
citizen parent gets arrested when they're with a child.
Holman also helped craft the Heritage Foundation's Project 2025, a
proposed blueprint for Trump's second term that includes radical changes
to immigration law, such as removing certain visas and repealing
temporary protected status designations, which would impact almost 1.2 million
people.
Trump has tried to distance himself from Project 2025.
I haven't read it.
I don't want to read it purposely.
I'm not going to read it.
But Homan's involvement suggests some of these policies may not
be off the table.
So what can we expect from Homan as borders are?
Unlike a Cabinet position, borders are does not need Senate
confirmation and holds no legal authority over federal agencies controlling
the border.
So it's hard to say exactly how much Homan will
be able to shape policy moving forward.
But he's determined to fulfill 1 of Trump's biggest campaign
promises, mass deportations, and he's already hinted at how he
plans to carry this out.
Homan plans to target sanctuary cities, which protect undocumented immigrants
by discouraging law enforcement from reporting their immigration status.
So time will tell whether Homan radically changes the US
border or if the constraints of the job handcuff him
in the White House.