tom homanChosen by President-elect Donald Trump as “border jar“In the new administration, he is traveling to the US-Mexico border with the Texas government on Tuesday. greg abbottAbbott's office said.
Homan and Abbott will serve meals to Texas National Guard troops deployed to Eagle Pass and Edinburg and Texas Department of Public Safety troopers on Thanksgiving, Abbott's office said. They are deployed there as part of operation lone starA border mission launched by Abbott in March 2021 – accused of inadequate support from the Biden administration to deal with the flow of immigration to the Texas-Mexico border.
Despite testimony before a GOP-led Texas Senate panel earlier this year about low morale among troops, humanitarian concerns and rising costs, Abbott continued the border mission — which deployed thousands of police and troops and miles of roadblocks – has been presented as a success. Additionally, Biden has the Justice Department and the American Civil Liberties Union Texas suedArguing that the law interferes with the federal government's authority over immigration.
Abbott told “60 MinutesTexas is “enforcing laws that are the policy of the United States Congress” with Operation Lone Star earlier this year.
Earlier this month, Trump announced that Homan, who served as acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement in his first term, would be the new administration's “border czar.” Trump vowed during the campaign to launch the largest deportation program in history, which would likely be overseen by Homan.
Speaking on “Fox & Friends” Tuesday morning, Homan said he and Abbott are “already planning” and “are not waiting until January 20,” which is Inauguration Day, though he did not specify. That's what they can do before Trump takes office. He outlined last month how he planned to carry out the deportations.60 minutes,Stating that these would be “targeted arrests”, however, he added that there would not be “massive raids in neighbourhoods”.
Homan and Abbott appeared on Fox News Monday night, with Homan saying they were “going to enforce the term of the law, and they're not going to stop us,” referring to mayors of cities who said they would not enforce deportations. do.
Homan was the architect of the first Trump White House “zero tolerance” policy toward immigration. He was one of the three officers Put signature on A policy memo that was approved by then-Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen to greenlight family separation.
Internal Customs and Border Protection data obtained by CBS News shows that the number of illegal border crossers at the U.S.-Mexico border is on track to decline. New low for Biden administration in NovemberIllegal border crossings were less last time summer of 2020 Amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
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