Tom Homan, the 63-year-old border czar that President Donald Trump dispatched to Minnesota, built his enforcement reputation under a Democratic administration. Between 2013 and 2016, Homan's team at Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) removed more than 920,000 people from the United States.
That record earned him the 2015 Presidential Rank Award for Distinguished Service from Barack Obama, the highest honour a career civil servant can receive. At the time, The Washington Post described him as someone who 'deports people. And he's really good at it'.
