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President-elect Trump’s “border czar” Tom Homan has floated the idea of placing children at the border. illegal immigration They were placed in halfway houses as part of the incoming administration’s mass deportation program.
“This is going to be a difficult situation for American children because we’re not going to detain the children of American citizens, which means, you know, they’re going to be placed in a halfway house,” Homan said, according to The Hill newspaper reported, telling NewsNation on Thursday
Incoming Trump “border czar” Tom Homan is interviewed by Fox News. (Fox News)
He added: “They can – or they can stay at home and wait for the police to arrange travel and come back to pick up their family.”
Trump said he plans to deport large numbers of illegal immigrants as part of a plan to address the border crisis.
One of the government’s top priorities is locating the hundreds of thousands of immigrant children unaccounted for in the United States.
“We’re asking the American people to take note: See something, say something and reach out to us,” Holman told Kellyanne Conway on “Hannity.” “If one call in a thousand saves one child from sex trafficking or forced labor, that’s a life saved.”
Homan acknowledged it will be a “tough task,” but “we’ll do our best.”
Homan told NewsNation that children born in the United States will not be spared illegal immigration to avoid being deported.
“Having a child who is a U.S. citizen does not mean you are exempt from our laws, and that is not the message we want to send to the world that you can have a child, but you are exempt from the laws of this country,” Homan said. constraints.”
Immigrants line up outside the Immigration Re-Vote Center at St. Brigid School on East Seventh Street in Manhattan, New York City, Friday, January 5, 2024. (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 Pursue birthright citizenship, which automatically grants U.S. citizenship to those born in the country.
