Incoming border czar Thomas Homan says President-elect Donald Trump will restore Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) powers to protect American workers by conducting workplace raids and reinstating the “Remain in Mexico” border policy. said.
“We don't really plan for enforcement on the ground,” Homan said. said of washington postThere is no question of allowing ICE officers to conduct such immigration enforcement. “I understand that employers will be upset.”
In February 2021, Biden stripped ICE of its authority to conduct on-site raids. At the time, agency officials said: post The administration claimed that it “abolished ICE without abolishing ICE.”
In addition to protecting American workers from illegal employment, Homan said the incoming Trump administration will reinstate the Remain in Mexico policy at the southern border that Biden ended on his first day in office.
Remain in Mexico was created and imposed by the first Trump administration and helped significantly reduce asylum fraud by preventing immigrants from being released into the interior of the United States while awaiting immigration hearings. There is.
Homan said the next administration will similarly build soft-side facilities to house immigrant adults and children arriving at the border.
“We need to show the American people that this is not inhumane and that we can do this,” Homan said. post. “We cannot afford to lose the trust of the American people.”
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