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President-elect Trump announced on his Truth Social platform late last night that Tom Homan, acting director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in the first Trump administration, will be "The Border Czar" in Trump 2.0.

• Why it matters: ICE agents will take a pivotal operational role in delivering on Trump's promise to "seal the border" and conduct the "largest deportation operation in American history."

Trump called Homan "a stalwart on Border Control," and said there's "nobody better at policing and controlling our Borders. ... Tom Homan will be in charge of all Deportation of Illegal Aliens back to their Country of Origin."

📺 Homan told Maria Bartiromo yesterday on Fox News' "Sunday Morning Futures" that the deportation operation will target "the worst of the worst. So it's gonna be the worst first," prioritizing criminal threats and national-security threats.

• "It's going to be a well-targeted, planned operation ... by the men of ICE," Homan said. "It'll be a humane operation, but it's a necessary mass deportation operation." (Video)

🗞️ Homan told The Sunday Times of London: "We're going to concentrate on the worst of the worst ... It's going to be a lot different to what the liberal media is saying it's going to be."

🌐 Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.) will be U.S. ambassador to the U.N., the N.Y. Post reported, quoting a statement by Trump to the paper. \

• Editor's note: Deletes incorrect title for Homan's new role.