Tom Homan, President-elect Donald Trump's top border adviser, said in an interview with The Washington Post published Thursday that U.S. immigration officials will resume holding undocumented immigrant children with their parents. said.
Homan said the Trump administration will not allow undocumented immigrants to remain in the country just because they have U.S.-born children, and instead will give families the option of leaving together or separately. said Outlet. (Related: Exclusive: Trump Border Czar has plans for 'super' sanctuary counties that want to protect criminal immigrants from ICE)
“You knew you were in the country illegally and you chose to have a child,” Homan told The Washington Post. “You put your family in that position.”
WASHINGTON, DC – March 20: Acting Commissioner of Immigration and Customs Enforcement Thomas Homan speaks at President Donald Trump’s Law Enforcement Roundtable on Sanctuary Cities (Photo by Kevin Dietsch-Pool/Getty Images)
President Trump's mass deportation efforts will require the construction of residential centers and family facilities, Homan told The Washington Post. ”
The comments came after the incoming border czar spoke to Fox Business on Tuesday, and the White House said: need He said he would like to spend $86 billion to revitalize the deportation process and increase the number of detention beds from tens of thousands to 100,000.
Judge Dolly Gee, a federal judge appointed by President Obama to oversee the immigration detention program for minors, ruled in 2019 that minors can only be held in family facilities for up to 20 days. . This period is often too short for deportation proceedings. It will be done. Homan told the Washington Post that the policy could be revised once President Trump takes office on January 20th.
Homan also told The Washington Post that the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, which President Joe Biden abolished, has resumed workplace raids and that the Trump administration has implemented a “Remain in Mexico” program to detain migrants seeking asylum in Mexico. He said he would work to revive the program. Until your application is processed.
Since Biden took office in January 2021, there have been more than 8.5 million encounters with migrants across the United States, and nearly 3 million unacceptable encounters along the southern border in 2024 alone.
On the other hand, the Biden administration I got lost More than 320,000 migrant children have been repeatedly sent to homes that caseworkers did not deem safe. According to the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee in November, when Congressional and state investigations were launched to locate the missing children, the White House took months to respond to surveillance requests. He also attempted to obstruct the investigation. report.
“When Ranking Member Cassidy sought to hold the Biden-Harris administration accountable, the administration went to great lengths to cover up its failures and thwart new surveillance efforts, and its course of action continues today. continues,” the report said. “The administration also refuses to comply with national efforts to investigate and stop human trafficking and exploitation. [unaccompanied children] This is due to its own weak sponsor scrutiny policy and confusion. ”
Homan told the Washington Post that he would mobilize nonprofit organizations and private contractors to help track down the missing children.
“Some of these children will go into forced labor, some into the sex industry,” he told The Washington Post. “I think some people are perfectly fine. We just want to make sure.”
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