President-elect Donald Trump announced on Sunday that he is appointing Tom Homan, the former acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, to take “charge of our Nation’s Borders.”
Homan made a name for himself during the first Trump administration after being appointed acting director of ICE and immediately began ramping up deportations. In the first three months of Trump’s first term and under Homan’s leadership, ICE arrested more than 41,000 illegal immigrants, which was a 38% increase over the same period from the year before. Homan impressed Trump as acting director, and the president tapped him to lead ICE permanently, but in April 2018, Homan announced that he was retiring over “family and personal considerations.”
Shortly after he stepped down, Homan testified before the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration and Citizenship. He got into a heated…
