President-elect Donald Trump continued this week with cabinet nominations and staff hires, most recently naming Tom Homan, the former acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, as his “border czar.”
He selected South Dakota Governor Chrisit Noem to be Secretary of Homeland Security, former Republican Congressman Lee Zeldin to head the Environmental Protection Agency, and Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) to be Secretary of State. There is also a view that he will nominate someone.
Florida Republican Rep. Mike Walz will serve as national security adviser and Stephen Miller will serve as deputy chief of staff for policy. President Trump named campaign manager Susie Wiles as his chief of staff last week.
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Because of Nomu's position on immigration, she is likely to be selected to be DHS secretary.
As CNN reported, “Noem does not represent the border state, but she has a long history of taking hard-line positions on immigration.”
She supported SB 70, the immigration law that Arizona ultimately repealed. The law requires police to check the immigration status of people they come into lawful contact with.
She also wants to punish Democratic sanctuary cities that fail to cooperate with ICE in arresting and deporting illegal aliens.
Noem has long been a strong supporter of Trump.
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CNN complained that Zeldin intends to reverse the Biden administration's far-left policy agenda, noting that he is poorly rated by voters in the far-left Conservative League.
As a New York state legislator, Zeldin received the worst score of the entire New York delegation on environmental issues from the League of Conservation Voters in 2020.
Zeldin received a lifetime score of 14% from LCV, a national environmental advocacy group. During his time in Congress, LCV revealed that Mr. Zeldin voted against several matters for which the EPA was responsible for leading, such as replacing main service lines across the country. But Zeldin voted against a Republican amendment in 2020 that would have cut EPA funding.
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A 27-year Army veteran, Walz is a former Green Beret who received four Bronze Stars, two for bravery, during combat tours in Africa, Afghanistan and the Middle East.
Walz supports military aid to Ukraine, but believes, as he wrote on Fox News, that it can no longer accept a “blank check” from American taxpayers. He expected NATO countries to increase aid to Ukraine, which lost the war with Russia, and said, strangely, that Russian President Vladimir Putin's “invasion was a sign of his desire to rebuild the former Soviet Union.” I believe this is the next big step towards my goal.
“While deterring Russia is the right thing to do,” he wrote, “we cannot continue to place that burden solely on the American people, especially while Western Europe has the green light.”
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Miller led immigration policy in the first Trump administration and will almost certainly shape immigration policy again as deputy chief of staff, while Homan will carry out policy directives and help shape them.
After leaving the Trump administration, Miller founded America First Legal, a group that bills itself as “the long-awaited answer to the American Civil Liberties Union,” and has regularly sued the Biden administration to end its far-left policies. There is.
In September, the AFL sued several Arizona counties for refusing to remove noncitizens from their voter rolls.
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As noted by Forbes, Wiles is the first woman to serve as White House chief of staff. Trump chose her two days after defeating Vice President Kamala Harris.
“Susie Wiles is on track to become the most powerful woman in Washington,” Politico said.
But many in this town are just beginning to learn who she is.
Wiles, a veteran of Florida politics, was promoted from Donald Trump's 2016 Florida campaign manager to senior adviser for his 2024 presidential campaign. She is credited with a disciplined and professional campaign that helped Mr. Trump win the Electoral College and likely the popular vote.
Wiles is the daughter of the late sports broadcaster and New York Giants football player Pat Summerall, and has a neoconservative background, having worked for the late Republican congressman and housing secretary Jack Kemp. She also worked for Mitt Romney. She also received the endorsement of President Trump's rival, Jeb Bush.
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Homan is President Trump's best candidate so far.
The no-nonsense former beat cop and Border Patrol agent said loud and clear that he would fulfill President Trump's pledge to carry out “the largest domestic deportation operation in American history.”
Speaking at the Republican National Convention in July, Mr. Homan warned undocumented immigrants Mr. Biden had illegally released: “You better start packing now… because you're going home.”
He warned that ICE would deport undocumented immigrants in sanctuary cities and states with or without the support of Democratic local governments.
He also threatened the drug cartels that currently control the southwest border with Mexico. “When President Trump returns to office, he's going to designate you as a terrorist organization and wipe you off the face of the earth. It's done. It's over.”
It is unclear whether his title “border czar” means he will become ICE director. When President Trump announced his selection, Homan “will be in charge of our nation's borders ('Border Czar'), including but not limited to the southern border, northern border, and all maritime and air security.” said.
