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Supporter of harsh repression of migrants, the ex-police officer will take back the reins of the powerful immigration control agency, which he already led under the first term of the Republican president, to lead a policy of mass expulsion and militarization of American borders.
He takes the same ones and starts again. A few days after being elected president of the United States, Donald Trump announced the upcoming appointment of Thomas Homan to head the influential agency responsible for border and immigration control (ICE). Created in 2003 as part of a government restructuring after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, it aims to strengthen the country's internal security.
“I am pleased to announce that former ICE Director and Border Control stalwart Tom Homan will join the Trump Administration as our nation's border official,” declared the billionaire on November 11 on his Truth Social network, describing the ultra-conservative as “border tsar”. “I have known Tom for a long time and no one is better placed to police and control our borders than him.”
“The largest deportation operation in American history”
Thomas Homan will be responsible in particular for implementing a policy of mass deportation, a central measure of Donald Trump's program. Throughout his campaign, the real estate mogul continued to increase his rhetoric against exiles, going so far as to accuse the Haitian community in the town of Springfield, Illinois, of
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