Trump announced his intention to have Tom Homan join his administration as the so-called "border czar" who will oversee immigration policy. Homan infamously told CBS News that they intended to avoid family separation in the mass deportations by deporting whole families, even if the family members were U.S. citizens. under Homan's past leadership, "more than 4600 children were forcibly — and deliberately — separated from their parents under that policy.
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