Trump and Border Czar Tom Homan Unhappy with Current Deportation Numbers — ICE Under Pressure to Ramp Up Operations
Donald Trump and his border czar, Tom Homan, are reportedly unhappy with the current number of deportations.
Mass deportation of illegal immigrants was a central plank of Trump’s presidential campaign, and his voters are eagerly anticipating the removal of millions of aliens who have broken U.S. immigration law.
However, NBC reports that Trump and Homan are disappointed with the numbers so far and are demanding that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) ramp up their operations.
The report states:
A source familiar with Trump’s thinking said the president is getting “angry” that more people are not being deported and that the message is being passed along to “border czar” Tom Homan, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller and acting ICE Director Caleb Vitello.
“It’s driving him nuts they’re not deporting more people,” said the person familiar with Trump’s thinking.
A source familiar with internal conversations at ICE said Homan has a daily conference call with ICE agents in which he has been known to express his frustration with ICE numbers.
Another source said Homan is “unhappy” and has “made his unhappiness known” about the relatively low numbers of arrests and deportations.