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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Lakshmi Singh. The country is celebrating America's veterans today and remembering fallen service members. taps at the tomb of the unknown soldier at Arlington National Cemetery. The Veterans Day ceremony was President Biden's final as Commander-in-Chief. He took the occasion to remember his late son, Beau, who died of cancer in 2015.
Our son, Beau Biden, deployed in Iraq for a year with the Delaware National Guard. I still remember the day he asked me to pin his bars on him. He stood ramrod straight. How proud Jill and I and our entire family felt Like so many of you, we also remember how hard it was when he was deployed. Empty seats at the dinner table.
Vice President Harris joined Biden to lay a wreath at the tomb of the unknown soldier. It was their first public appearance together since Harris lost the election. President-elect Donald Trump has announced his administration's border czar. His name is Tom Homan, the former acting director of the Department of Homeland Security under the first Trump administration.
NPR's Sergio Martinez Beltran reports.
Tom Homan's appointment is not a surprise. Trump had suggested he would be in charge of fulfilling the campaign promise of mass deportations. Hohmann was the architect of Trump's zero-tolerance policy, which separated thousands of immigrant kids from their parents at the US southern border.
Hohmann has already suggested that deporting families together, including children who are US citizens but whose parents are undocumented, would ensure no families are separated this time. Under President Obama, Hohmann led enforcement and removal operations for Immigration and Customs Enforcement. During that administration, ICE carried out a record number of deportations.
Sergio Martinez Beltran, NPR News, Austin.
Haiti's transitional government has decided to oust the prime minister and appoint a new one. And Pierre Zeta-Peralta reports a prime minister says they don't have the authority to fire him.
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