Border czar Tom Homan to delegate local law enforcement with ICE powers to aid in mass deportation plan

Tom Homan, the incoming border czar of President-elect Donald Trump, has been traveling the country meeting with local law enforcement agencies to prepare for mass deportations, a promise Trump made on the campaign trail. He said that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) would transfer some duties to local law enforcement agencies, allowing them to help with the removal of criminal aliens from the nation. Homan, the former acting ICE director during Trump's first White House term, has made it clear that illegal immigrants will be removed from the US, saying, "We're going to put a plan in place and secure this nation."

The 287(g) program is expected to be one of the methods by which the new administration augments its manpower as it prepares to initiate what it describes as the largest deportation effort in US history. It allows state and local law enforcement officers to assist in the enforcement of federal immigration law. However, it may also serve as a flashpoint for a legal dispute that is developing as Inauguration Day approaches.