Donald Trump picks 2024: What Trump’s ‘border czar’ Tom Homan has said he plans to do starting on Day 1 [Video]

WASHINGTON — Last week, while appearing on Donald Trump Jr.’s podcast, the president-elect’s son asked incoming “border czar” Tom Homan what border and immigration-related action the public can expect to see on Day 1 of the new Trump administration.

“Shock and awe,” Homan responded. “Shock and awe,” he repeated with a smile.

Homan, who served as the acting head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement during the first Trump administration, has suggested he’s been waiting more than two years for this moment.

At a public event last year, he recounted how, over dinner in Las Vegas in the middle of 2022 — several months before former President Donald Trump announced his reelection bid — Trump confided in Homan that he was going to run for the White House again and asked if he could count on Homan to return with him.

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As Homan recalled, he told …