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An expanded interior-removal campaign is a clear intensification of enforcement restrictiveness.
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Tom Homan appointed border czar to direct mass deportation operations
President Trump named Tom Homan, a former acting director of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, as 'border czar' to lead an expanded interior-enforcement and removal campaign beginning in January 2025. Over the following year, large-scale, often highly visible enforcement operations were carried out in cities including Chicago, Minneapolis and Los Angeles. Homan publicly pledged to deploy thousands of additional federal agents to accelerate removals; the operations drew protests and legal challenges, and reporting noted arrests of people without criminal records.
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President Trump named Tom Homan, a former acting director of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, as 'border czar' to lead an expanded interior-enforcement and removal campaign beginning in January 2025. Over the following year, large-scale, often highly visible enforcement operations were carried out in cities including Chicago, Minneapolis and Los Angeles. Homan publicly pledged to deploy thousands of additional federal agents to accelerate removals; the operations drew protests and legal challenges, and reporting noted arrests of people without criminal records.
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