President-elect Donald Trump announced over the weekend that Thomas Homan, a senior immigration official in his first administration, will serve as “border czar,” overseeing border enforcement ...

Thomas Homan once defended Obama-era policies and health care for transgender immigrants. Now he’s eyeing hotlines to report undocumented neighbors and arrests of local officials who get in the way.

He also writes Crooks and Liars. He has a background in enterprise resource planning and previously managed the network infrastructure for the North Carolina Department of Correction.