Trump picks Tom Homan as ‘border czar’, Stephen Miller for top policy role
Al JazeeraBoth Homan and Miller served under Trump’s first administration and advocate for hardline immigration policies. Trump named former Immigration and Customs Enforcement director Tom Homan as his “border czar” in a post on his social network Truth Social late Sunday. Al Jazeera’s Mike Hanna, reporting from near Trump’s home in Palm Beach, Florida, said his latest appointments show he is “concentrating now on proven loyalists”. Homan, who oversaw a 40 percent jump in immigrants’ arrests when he was ICE director in 2017, has said immigrants will need to be “looking over shoulder” under a Trump administration. “It’s going to be done in a humane manner.” Experts warn that the fevered rhetoric around immigration could worsen a humanitarian crisis at the border and make it easier to justify harsh policies.