President-elect Donald Trump's border czar Tom Homan has indicated that the incoming administration is considering using half houses to protect U.S.-born children of illegal immigrants as part of a mass deportation plan. .
“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. I mean, they're going to be in concentration camps. It means being put in.” Homan told NewsNation on Thursday.did not elaborate on how the plan would work.
Instead, the former acting director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) urged parents of undocumented immigrants to “self-deport” and “self-depart.”
“As I have said many times, if a parent is arrested and ordered removed, and there are children, you can take them away with them. “You can stay,'' he said.
“So if you choose to have a U.S. citizen child while you are in the country illegally, you are putting yourself in that position and you are putting your family in that position,” Homan added.
Having children who are U.S. citizens “doesn't make them immune to our laws,” the hardline border czar has repeatedly said.
Meanwhile, the Trump administration also plans to reopen detention centers that house illegal immigrant parents and their noncitizen children. According to the Washington Post.
President Joe Biden closed the Family Detention Center, which held about 3,000 immigrants, in 2021 after criticism from immigration advocates and pediatricians who said detention was harmful to children.
Currently, migrant children can only be detained for up to 20 days, which is shorter than the typical period required for deportation. Homan said the Trump administration would consider changing that.
But Homan said the next secretary plans to prioritize deporting criminal illegal immigrants. Approximately 600,000 people Target on ICE non-custodial record.
