President Donald Trump (C) holds a law enforcement roundtable on sanctuary cities, in the Roosevelt Room at the White House on March 20, 2018 in Washington, D.C. Trump was joined by Attorney General Jeff Sessions (L), and Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, and Thomas Homan, acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
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President-elect Donald Trump‘s pick to carry out his sweeping deportation plans may be able to operate with more power, and less oversight from Congress, than some of his own Cabinet members.
That’s because the appointee, former U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement acting Director Tom Homan, will not be put directly in charge of the Department of Homeland Security or a subagency tasked with addressing immigration issues.
Homan will instead be the Trump administration’s “border czar,” a title that could grant him significant influence over immigration and border policy without the formal authority — and guardrails — that come with being …