President-elect Trump's next “border czar,” Tom Homan, said in an interview that he would reinstate the policy of holding families in detention centers. washington post Published on Thursday.
“You knew you were in the country illegally and you chose to have a child. So you put your family in that position,” he told the outlet.
Homan said new camps need to be built to house families leaving the country.
“We're going to have to build a family facility,” Homan said.
“The number of beds we need depends on what the data says.”
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) was directed by President Biden to eliminate “residence centers” for families in 2021, as well as other deportation tactics deemed inhumane by some.
In a previous interview with CNN, Homan estimated that the mass deportation effort would require 100,000 beds.
“This will cost money. This will be an expensive undertaking. But in the long run, it should be a huge tax savings for the American people,” Homan said in an interview.
He has worked with ICE for more than 30 years, assisting in the deportation of 400,000 people as a senior official in 2012, and is well versed in the ins and outs of the deportation process.
Although she will no longer directly lead the agency, she will work with current South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem, whom President Trump nominated to head the Department of Homeland Security, on border security efforts.
Homan plans to launch a study of the nation's 300,000 teens and children whose parents have stopped reporting them to federal caseworkers.
“Some of these children will be engaged in forced labor, and some will be engaged in the sex industry,” he said. “I think some people are perfectly fine. We just want to make sure.”
The Hill has reached out to Trump's transition team for additional comment.
