So who is Thomas Homan, the new Border Czar? Here are a few things to know.
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He used to be the acting ICE director from 2014 to 2018 and was director during the original 2014 “Unaccompanied Alien Children” (UAC) crisis.
2.Before he started working a federal beat as a Border Patrol agent, Homan worked as a police officer in New York state, just like his dad.
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He believes that the most effective way of deterring border-crossers is to start deporting people with final deportation orders.
4.He once suggested that ICE should conduct a “nationwide operation to locate, arrest, and remove those who have entered the U.S. illegally, including family units,” who have been given deportation orders.
5.He also once called for a “400 percent increase” in worksite immigration raids in California.
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He’s an equal-opportunity enforcer, once saying that “no population is off the table” for immigration enforcement.
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He once defended ICE’s Trump-era practice of going after “non-criminal” illegal immigrants: “We shouldn’t wait for them to become a criminal.“
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He says, “Many of the gang members ICE has arrested the past few years entered the US at the southern border as part of a family unit or as an unaccompanied alien child.”
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He’s no fan of sanctuary jurisdiction policies, once lamenting how his officers couldn’t get access to incarcerated illegal immigrants in Chicago.
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He’s also seen firsthand the relationship between sanctuary policies and the expansion of the drug trade.
https://www.conservativereview.com/news/10-things-know-president-trumps-new-border-czar/