President-elect Trump's “border czar” Tom Homan said in an interview Thursday that halfway homes for children of non-U.S. citizens could be a necessary part of Trump's plan to mass deport illegal immigrants. .
“When it comes to American children, children, it's going to be a difficult situation because we're not going to detain your American citizen children. So, I mean, they're going to be incarcerated. “They're going to be put in a place,” Homan said. He told NewsNation's Ali Bradley.
“They can alternatively stay home and wait for officers to make travel arrangements and come back to pick up their families,” he added.
Homan confirmed this week that the return of family detention centers is part of President Trump's mass deportation plan, which the president-elect says will be the largest in history.
In addition to pursuing the status of many people currently in the United States according to the law, President Trump is threatening to illegally deport everyone in the United States.
In response to accusations that the process would inevitably prove to be cruel and inhumane, Mr. Homan said that instead of standing up to stepped-up immigration authorities, multi-status families should “self-deport.” ” he suggested.
President Trump has also threatened to target constitutionally protected birthright citizenship, but the next border czar has made it clear that just because a child was born in the U.S. will not protect parents from deportation. did.
“Just because you have a child who is an American citizen does not exempt you from our laws. That you can have a child and you are exempt under the laws of this country is not the message we want to send to the whole world. No,” Homan said. he said on NewsNation. The company, like The Hill, is owned by Nexstar Media.
