Tom Homan, President-elect Trump's nominee for border czar, said the next Republican administration would “absolutely” use the gifted Texas land as part of its deportation program.
“We absolutely will. If we find someone, it will be a targeted enforcement operation and if they make an arrest, they will be in custody,” Homan said Wednesday on Fox News' “The Ingraham Angle.” ” he said during the performance.
“They must be detained for a short period of time until we obtain travel documents from their host country. [The] The host country has to agree: “Yes, they are our nationals” – we receive travel documents. Arrange flights, obtain flight contracts. Therefore, we will detain them for some time,” he added.
Homan's remarks came a day after Texas authorities offered President Trump a 1,400-acre ranch for his mass deportation program. Texas General Land Office Land Secretary Dawn Buckingham said Tuesday that the agency is “fully prepared” to work with federal agencies implementing President Trump's immigration policies. The 1,402-acre property is located in Starr County.
During his campaign, Trump vowed to carry out “the largest deportation campaign in American history.” On Monday, he declared a national emergency on immigration and signaled he would use military assets to carry out his deportation pledges.
Even as Texas officials back Trump's immigration plan, other parts of the country are considering protections for immigrants ahead of the president-elect's inauguration in January. The Los Angeles City Council unanimously passed a “sanctuary city” ordinance to protect immigrants in the city.
Homan said Wednesday that the ordinance is not significant.
“The sanctuary states say they're not going to allow any detention facilities in their states. That's fine. Then we'll arrest them. We'll fly them out of state and we'll detain them outside of state again. . . . again, out of state — away from where they live.'' Families and their attorneys,'' Homan told host Laura Ingraham. “That's what you want, that's what you get.”
“We're not going to stop what we're trying to do,” he added Wednesday. “So we move them to a state where we can take them into custody. There are a lot of sheriffs in this country who would give us an empty bed. They want the funding, so we move them into custody. They can be put in prisons all over the country.”
Homan said earlier this month that the Republican administration would conduct workplace raids, insisting that “we'll have no problem finding a place to hold these people.”
“It costs money, so we need funding to do that. But President Trump will do everything in his power to make sure we have the funding to do this,” he said.
