President-elect Donald Trump's pick to lead his border security and deportation efforts is an ally of Gov. Greg Abbott and a self-described "fan" of the Republican governor who regularly praised Texas' border crackdown on Fox News.

Immigrants, their employers and groups who work with them are already taking action ahead of President-elect Donald Trump’s second term, in which he has promised to deport millions of people.

The former head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) under President-elect Donald Trump says that jurisdictions that do not want to work with ICE should "get the hell out of the way."

In a Truth Social post, Donald Trump named Thomas Homan, a former acting ICE director, to lead mass-deportation efforts as "border czar."

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 want to block plans for mass deportations of illegal immigrants should "get the hell out our way" New York Congresswoman Elise Stefanik will become US ambassador to the United Nations,