President-elect Donald Trump tapped Tom Homan as his border czar, expected to fulfill Trump's campai...
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president-elect Donald Trump's Administration is starting to take shape he's announced who he'll tap to lead border security and is also weighing in on the new Republican controlled Senate ABC's Christian Cordo has the latest this morning former Immigration and Customs Enforcement director Tom homman who carried out one of the most controversial border policies during Donald Trump's first term is set to return to the White House the president elect announced hen will serve as borders are tap to fulfill Trump's campaign promise of the largest Mass deportation in American history hman recently spoke with 60 Minutes I hear
a lot of people say you know the talk of a mass deportation is racist it's uh is threatening to the Immigrant Community it's not threaten to an immigrant Community it should be threatening to the illegal immigrant Community as ice director hman led the zero tolerance policy that separated parents from their children at the border the ACLU estimates between 500 and 1,000 families have yet to be reunited when asked if there's a way to carry out Mass deportations without separating families hman said this of course there is families can be deported together Trump also weighing in
on the new Republican controlled Senate saying whoever leads it must allow recess appointments that would give Trump temporary power to fill vacancies without Senate approval the issue came up in 2014 when the Supreme Court ruled against President Obama's use of recess appointments at the time leader Mitch McConnell called called the move a power grab the president defied the Senate's determination that it was meeting regularly and the Supreme Court unanimously unanimously agreed with us chrisan Cordo ABC News Washington Trump says two members of his first Administration won't be coming back former ambassador to the UN Nikki
Haley and former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo both have been critical of trump in recent years