By JILL COLVIN, Associated Press

NEW YORK (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump says Tom Homan, his former acting director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, will serve as “border czar” in his new administration.

“I am pleased to announce that former ICE Director and border control farmer Tom Homan will be joining the Trump administration in charge of our nation’s borders,” he wrote on his Truth Social website late Sunday.

Homan was expected to be offered a post related to border and Trump’s pledge to launches the largest deportation operation in the history of the country.

In addition to overseeing the southern and northern borders and “maritime and aviation security,” Trump said Homan “will be responsible for all deportations of illegal aliens back to their country of origin,” a central part of his agenda.

He says there is “no doubt” that Homan “will do a fantastic and long-awaited job”.

Such a role does not require Senate confirmation.

In an interview on Fox News Channel’s “Sunday Morning Futures,” Homan said the military will not round up and arrest illegal immigrants in the country and that ICE will take steps to implement Trump’s plans in a “humane manner.”

“It will be a well-targeted, well-planned operation led by ICE people. The men and women of ICE do this every day. They are good at it,” he said. “When we go there, we’ll know who we’re looking for. We most likely know where they will be and it will be done in a humane manner.”