Texas Rep. Henry Cuellar (D) stated on Monday that he would “sit down and work together” with President-elect Trump’s decide for “border czar” Tom Homan.
“We’ve been on some shows together, we’ve done certain things together,” Cuellar instructed NewsNation’s Blake Burman on “The Hill” of Homan. “We agreed on a lotta things, but we just gotta make sure that we don’t go extreme left or extreme right.”
“And — and I think people like Tom Homan … and I’ll say this, we can sit down and work together, because I’ve been doing this for many years,” he added.
Trump on Sunday unveiled Homan, a former Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) director, as his “border czar” in his subsequent administration. In an announcement by way of Reality Social, the president-elect stated Homan’s tasks would come with “the Southern Border, the Northern Border, all Maritime, and Aviation Security.”
“I’ve known Tom for a long time, and there is nobody better at policing and controlling our Borders,” Trump posted. “Likewise, Tom Homan will be in charge of all Deportation of Illegal Aliens back to their Country of Origin. Congratulations to Tom. I have no doubt he will do a fantastic, and long awaited for, job.”
Trump, for some time, has promised to hold out the most important deportation effort in U.S. historical past.
In his interview on NewsNation, Cuellar stated “there are some things I might not agree” with Homan on, together with “dividing families, things like that.” Nonetheless, Cuellar additionally stated he “is very passionate about the work.”
Late final month, in response to journalist Cecilia Vega asking him on CBS’s “60 Minutes” about the potential for going ahead with “mass deportation without separating families,” Homan stated “there is” and that “Families can be deported together.”
Homan additionally stated on Monday in an interview on Fox Enterprise that “U.S. citizens” and “legal immigrants are perfectly safe, for God’s sakes.”
The Hill has reached out to Border911, a company Homan is president and CEO of, and a spokesperson for Trump for remark.
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