'Extreme and ineffective': Ex-DHS adviser issues warning about Trump appointee

President-elect Donald Trump announced his intention to have Tom Homan join his administration as the so-called "border czar" who will oversee immigration policy.

Homan infamously told CBS News that they intended to avoid family separation in the mass deportations by deporting whole families, even if the family members were U.S. citizens.

MSNBC's Kyle Griffin pointed out on X that under Homan's past leadership, "more than 4600 children were forcibly — and deliberately — separated from their parents under that policy. There are more than 1300 children still today without confirmed reunifications."

Olivia Troye, a former Homeland Security adviser to Vice President Mike Pence, sounded the alarm about Homan, saying that his policies aren't the worst things he can do.

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"Trump’s plan to appoint Tom Homan as ‘Border Czar’ is no accident," she warned. "Homan's track record? Extreme and ineffective policies that targeted all immigrants not just criminals. But the real goal here runs deeper: dismantling DHS and unraveling our homeland security framework as we know it."

The department was started after the Sept. 11 attacks to better connect all work being done to improve security inside the United States under one umbrella.