WASHINGTON –
Donald Trump is expected to take a slew of executive actions on his first day as president to ramp up immigration enforcement and roll back signature legal entry programs from President Joe Biden, a sweeping effort that will be led by incoming „border czar“ Tom Homan and other Republican immigration hardliners, three sources familiar with the matter said.
The executive actions would give federal immigration officers more latitude to arrest people with no criminal records, surge troops to the U.S.-Mexico border and restart construction of the border wall, the sources said.
Homan, who served as acting director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement from 2017-2018 under Trump, will bring a deep understanding of the U.S. immigration system after a four-decade career that took him from a frontline Border Patrol agent to head of the agency that arrests and deports immigrants who are in the U.S. illegally.