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13-11-2024
WASHINGTON/ MOSCOW: Earlier, the BBC had been unable to independently verify reports that Donald Trump had spoken with Russia’s President Vladimir Putin last week.
Now, after Trump’s team refused to comment on the alleged conversation, the Kremlin has flatly denied that any dialogue has taken place between Putin and Trump since the US election.
According to Steve Rosenberg, the BBC’s Russia editor, Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov says the suggestions of a call are “completely made up” and don’t “correspond at all to reality”.
The alleged phone call was said to have taken place last Thursday and Trump reportedly advised Putin not to escalate the war in Ukraine, according to the Washington Post.
Continuing his interview on Fox and Friends, Homan says his family are “not at home right now” because they’ve been receiving death threats. It’s “something we are going to deal with,” he adds. “They are not going to bully me away”.
Homan says his task is to deliver on Trump’s promise to enact the “largest deportation operation in history”.
To begin the process, Homan says he will target those that “a federal judge said you must go and they didn’t”.
“You have the right to claim asylum. You have a right to see a judge. We make that happen,” he says but if the “judge says you must go home, then we have to take them home”.
More now from Homan’s Fox News interview, and he says this is his second time coming out of retirement to work in the Trump administration and that he’s “honored” to be back. “I’m looking forward to it,” he says, seeing his role in charge of the US borders as an urgent one to “help solve this national security crisis”.
Under the Biden administration, the number of US-Mexico border crossings reached a record high, though the numbers have dropped significantly since December.
Homan who was the acting director of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement that Trump created during his first term says “thousands of retired agents” are also ready to volunteer and join him.
Tom Homan, Trump’s newly-appointed “border tsar”, says his message for Democratic lawmakers who might resist Trump’s mass deportation plans is to “get the hell out of our way”.
Appearing on Fox News this morning, a day after Trump announced Homan to be “in charge of our nation’s borders”, Homan says: “I’ve seen some of these Democratic governors say they’re going to stand in the way and make it hard for us.
“We’re going to do the job,” he adds.
Homan’s blunt messaging was in response to reports that Democratic leaders in some cities and states are preparing to defy Trump’s plans to deport illegal immigrants (we explain more on Trump’s plans here).
It is a similar tactic Democrats used during Trump’s first term, creating areas known as sanctuary cities. Homan tells Fox News: “If sanctuary cities don’t help us, then get out of the way… We’re coming.”
US President-elect Donald Trump has made two more key appointments ahead of his return to the White House in January.
Tom Homan, who served in the last Trump administration, will be the “border tsar” – he says any Democrats who might want to block plans for mass deportation of illegal immigrants should “get the hell out our way”.
New York Congresswoman Elise Stefanik becomes ambassador to the United Nations, the BBC’s US partner CBS News reports. (BBC)
