Trump announces 'border czar' will be Tom Homan as deportation plans heat up

US President-elect Donald Trump has announced Tom Homan, the former acting director of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), as the incoming ‘border czar’. Mr Homan will be the central figure in fulfilling Trump’s key election promise of curbing the flood of illegal immigrants. Illegal immigration was one of the key issues Mr Trump based his campaign on.