Homan was the acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement from January 2017 to June 2018, where he was a key architect of the Trump administration's controversial family separation policy.

President-elect Trump has announced Tom Homan as his new administration’s border czar, putting a 30-plus-year immigration enforcement veteran at the head of his mass deportation pledge. Homan, the second Trump appointee announced after White House chief of staff Susie Wiles,

President-elect Donald Trump's incoming "border czar" Tom Homan joins NewsNation's "CUOMO" to discuss what he plans to do about border security. Homan has extensive experience in law enforcement and politics,