White House immigration czar Tom Homan arrived in Minnesota on Tuesday with a clear mandate from President Donald Trump: De-escalate the chaos that has engulfed Minneapolis. Now the White House will be watching the numbers closely to see if he can deliver. When Trump selected Noem as the head of the Department of Homeland Security, immigration officials were surprised that it was not Homan. White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller has empowered her efforts, as part of his quest for more deportations and tougher enforcement. We don’t show up with bulletproof vests,’ Homan told the Post in the nearly ten-year-old interview.