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President Trump announced today that former Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) director Thomas Homan will return to his administration as 鈥渂order czar,鈥� a new post he described during an interview with 鈥淔ox & Friends.鈥�

The news comes immediately after we鈥檝e learned about the treatment of migrant families and in U.S. custody, including along the . But Homan鈥檚 appointment will likely intensify the cruelty of the administration鈥檚 border policies.

Homan was one of three administration officials, including current Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kevin McAleenan, who signed a memo to now-former Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen which. The memo that DHS could 鈥減ermissibly direct the separation of parents or legal guardians and minors held in immigration detention so that the parent or legal guardian can be prosecuted.鈥� It also recommended that the department 鈥減ursue prosecution of all amenable adults who cross our border illegally, including those presenting with a family unit, between ports of entry.鈥� Thousands of parents and children continue to suffer the consequences of this viciously cruel decree.

While Homan was the one who recommended the policy of family separation, he tried to blame everybody but himself. He that 鈥測ou鈥檇 have to put the blame on the parents鈥� for family separation and 罢谤耻尘辫鈥檚 false talking point that Democrats in Congress were the ones responsible for the policy. In reality, it was a decision made and put into practice by none other than the Trump administration itself.

Under Homan鈥檚 leadership, ICE its arrests; so-called sanctuary communities; pushed for of pregnant women and presided over two dozen ; retaliated against immigrant rights activists; people who showed up to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services offices for routine interviews; and people going to court hearings, including .

ICE also showed a pattern of dishonesty under his leadership, systematically ignoring clear violations of basic detention standards at their brutal detention facilities and even going so far as to in one case in order to accelerate efforts to detain and deport Iraqi-Americans.

Homan defended ICE鈥檚 of people without criminal records by insisting that all immigrants without immigration status 鈥漑s]hould be uncomfortable. You should look over your shoulder and you need to be worried,鈥� he. Public officials who adopt so-called sanctuary policies to advance their communities鈥� public safety, Homan said, should be.

Since leaving ICE, Homan the Fox News Channel as a contributor, where he has continued to push anti-immigrant messages to a broader public and the network鈥檚 number one fan in the White House. On Fox, Homan doubled down on his rhetoric, ing that 鈥渢here should be fear in the immigrant community,鈥� andurging the president to close the U.S.-Mexican border.

While it is still unclear what Homan鈥檚 new position entails, his record should disqualify him from any position in the federal government鈥攁nd particularly one that will once again put him in a position to subject children and families to unconscionable treatment. Congress must continue to use its oversight power to hold Homan accountable for anti-immigrant abuse.