Trump to appoint former ICE director Tom Homan as country’s ‘border czar’

(Reuters) – U.S. President-elect Donald Trump said on Sunday that Tom Homan, the former acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), will be in charge of the country’s borders in his new administration.

Homan will be “in charge of our nation’s borders (“The Border Czar”), including, but not limited to, the Southern Border, the Northern Border, all Maritime, and Aviation Security,” Trump said in a post on his Truth Social platform.

(Reporting by Shubham Kalia in Bengaluru; Editing by Kim Coghill)