Incoming ‘border czar’ Tom Homan got a jump start on his new role on Tuesday when he traveled to the U.S.-Mexico border with Texas Gov. Greg Abbott to assess the immigration crisis first-hand.
Homan said that Donald Trump’s incoming administration is “already planning,” and “we’re not waiting until January to secure this nation at the highest levels this nation has ever seen.” However, he did not state what actions he intends to take.
Still, Homan was very explicit about the incoming administration’s intentions.
“Let me be clear: There is going to be a mass deportation because we just finished a mass illegal immigration crisis on the border,” he stated, per CBS News.
Earlier this year, President-elect Trump promised on the campaign trail to institute the largest deportation program in history, as CBS News reported.
While at the border, Homan and Abbott served holiday meals to Texas National Guards and DPS troopers stationed along the border as part of Operation Lone Star, the governor’s initiative to combat the flow of immigrants across the Texas-Mexico border.
Homan said he would “help Abbott finish the job he started” when Trump took office.
Speaking to a group of National Guards and troopers, Abbott said: “Everything that needs to be done is being done so that there is no time gap whatsoever, that as soon as January 20th occurs, there is going to be a change in the way that the United States of America protects our border and protects the sovereignty of the United States of America.”
Homan told the enforcement officers that he had worked on border security with six different presidents, beginning with Ronald Reagan, and that “all of them understood you can’t have strong national security if you don’t have strong border security. We need to know who is coming in, what is coming in, where it’s coming in, why it’s coming in.”