Tom Homan, President-elect Trump’s “border czar,” will visit the Texas southern border on Tuesday to discuss plans for mass deportation alongside the state’s Gov. Greg Abbott (R), with less than two months until inauguration.
“Well, we’re not waiting until January 20th. We’re already planning what we’re going to do to lock down the state of Texas. Governor Abbott’s done a great job so far,” Homan said during a Tuesday morning appearance on Fox News’ “Fox & Friends.”
“Look, illegal crossings in Texas is down over 80 percent because of great work by Gov. Abbott. And he’s been successful because he has taken the Trump policies and put them to work,” he added.
“He’s put border barriers and walls up, walls work. President Trump proved that. He has consequences. He’s arresting people and charging them that cross the border. Consequences work.”
Homan has regularly made headlines in recent weeks for his threats to states and politicians that stand in the way of Trump’s immigration plans.
He has threatened to cut fund federal funding to states that refuse to cooperate, and even said he is willing to put Denver’s mayor in jail over deportation conflicts.
A number of Democratic governors have pre-emptively promised to protect their residents against any unlawful immigration efforts.
Appearing Tuesday on Fox News, where Homan was previously a contributer, he said his goal in the months ahead was to build on Abbott’s success in Texas, rather than trying to block his border measures, as the Biden administration often did.
“I guarantee you the Trump administration isn’t going to constantly sue him for trying to secure the border. We’re going to partner up and help him do 100 percent security on his border and we’re going to do that across the southwest border.”
Homan said he hopes to see Trump reinforce the “Remain in Mexico” program, which required asylum seekers to remain in their country until their respective court dates until President Biden ended the measure.
“We got to put the ‘Remain in Mexico’ program back in. You got the Third Safe Country Agreements. We got Congress needs to change the asylum laws, but I’m not counting on that to happen,” Homan said.
“So President Trump’s got to come in with executive orders like he did the first time.”
