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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Richard Luscombe

Trump’s border czar warned deportations should be targeted to ‘keep faith of American people’

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Tom Homan speaks at a press conference at the Bishop Henry Whipple federal building on 4 February 2026 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Photograph: John Moore/Getty Images

Tom Homan – the Trump administration’s “border czar” sent to Minnesota in January after federal agents fatally shot two US citizen protesters – warned last year that the government’s aggressive, widespread approach to immigration enforcement would cost it public support.

Homan made the observation in an interview with NBC in June for the forthcoming book Undue Process, by the network’s homeland security correspondent, analyzing the immigration policy of mass deportation that Donald Trump has pursued during his second presidency.

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