Trump’s new border czar and commentators downplay deportation fears saying they aren’t coming for citizens

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Get our free Inside Washington email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy President-elect Donald Trump’s incoming border czar Tom Homan has pushed back against critics, claiming that “legal immigrants are perfectly safe” from the administration’s mass deportation efforts. Homan appeared on Fox Business, where host Elizabeth MacDonald showed clips of MSNBC’s Nicole Wallace noting that Homan has connections to Project 2025, the conservative agenda for the next Republican administration that Trump has been attempting to distance himself from, and former HUD Secretary Julian Castro saying that Homan has a “cowboy attitude.” Castro also said that Trump’s immigration agenda will need “a lot of pushback” and Ana Navarro, the co-host of The View, said, “When he says ‘Yes, families can be deported together,’ what he is saying, is that US citizens can be deported.” “Are you saying that, Tom?” MacDonald asked Homan. The incoming border czar said that US citizens and legal immigrants “are perfectly safe, for God’s sake.” Homan responded to a question from CBS late last month in which he was asked about going ahead with mass deportations without separating families. open image in gallery Tom Homan has been named as Donald Trump’s “border czar” and tried to downplay some of the concerns over the administration's deportation plans He also claimed in his Fox Business appearance that the Biden administration has “deported families together.” “If these people demand due process, they demand the right to claim asylum, they demand the right” to see a judge, “and we give to them at.