No. Only the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, under certain circumstances, can deputize agency staff, federal workers, or state or federal law enforcement to act as immigration officers—but not civilians. The DHS Secretary could be dubbed a border czar, but the two titles are not interchangeable.
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