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He’s ‘in charge’ of mass deportations. Why Trump listens to Tom Homan.

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Tom Homan is positioned to play an integral role in shaping the Trump administration’s crackdown on illegal immigration.

Critics have likened him to a Nazi ; he counters that the agency he once led deported real ones.

Homan has a pugilistic air, a fixture of conservative TV, cites immigration law, in favor of more enforcement.

The president largely speaks of unauthorized immigrants as endangering the nation.

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Mr. Homan says the agency has “got to do more” Part of that involves communicating results with the American public.

“We need to show the American people we can do this and not be inhumane about it,” he has said. “People don’t understand what we do or how we do it”.