Tom Homan, President-elect Trump's “border czar,” has floated the idea of placing children in the United States Illegal immigrants in halfway houses as part of the incoming administration's mass deportation plan.
“With regard to the American children, the children, this is going to be a difficult situation, because we're not going to detain your American citizen children, which means, you know, they're going to be put in a halfway house,” Homan said. He told NewsNation on Thursday, The Hill reported
Tom Homan, Trump's next “border czar,” speaks with Fox News. (Fox News)
“They can – or they can stay home and wait for the officers to make travel arrangements and come back to get the family,” he added.
As part of his plan to address the border crisis, Trump said that he plans to deport large numbers of illegal immigrants.
One of the administration's priorities will be finding hundreds of thousands of migrant children missing in the United States.
“We're going to ask the American people to pay attention: See something, say something and call us,” Holman told Kellyanne Conway on “Hannity.” “If one in a thousand phone calls saves a child from sex trafficking or forced labor, that means one life saved.”
Homan admitted that it will be a “daunting task”, but “we will give it everything we have.”
During his interview with NewsNation, Homan said that delivering babies born in the United States will not be easy Illegal immigrants Of their deportation.
“Having a child who is an American citizen does not make you immune to our laws, and that is not the message we want to send to the entire world, which is that you can have a child and be immune to the laws of this country,” Homan said. .
Migrants line up outside the migrant ticket rebooking center at St. Brigid's School on 7th Street on Friday, January 5, 2024, in Manhattan, New York City. (Barry Williams/New York Daily News/Tribune News Service via Getty Images) (Barry Williams/New York Daily News/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)
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In addition to mass deportations. Trump has threatened To pursue birthright citizenship, which automatically grants U.S. citizenship to those born in the country.
