U.S. President-elect Donald Trump is moving aggressively on mass deportation, installing two of the most strident anti-immigrant voices in his circle in key positions.
Their selection sets the stage for the administration to take the hardest possible line on Trump’s signature issue: vastly reducing the number of immigrants in this country. What’s coming will be ugly.
Tom Homan, former acting director for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in the first Trump White House, will be the new border czar. Stephen Miller, the architect of such brutal policies as the Muslim travel ban and the family separation policy that put kids in cages, returns in an even more powerful role: deputy chief of staff for policy.