HOMAN ON DEPORTATIONS: ‘We Need to Show the American People We Can Do

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During a recent interview with The Washington Post, incoming border czar Tom Homan stressed the importance of carrying out deportations without being “inhumane.”

“We need to show the American people we can do this and not be inhumane about it,” Homan told Wapo in an interview published Thursday.

“We can’t lose the faith of the American people,” he added.

Homan previewed a bit of his plan with WaPo, including how the administration will approach illegal immigrant family detentions and deportations.

From The Washington Post:

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement will look to hold parents with children in “soft-sided” tent structures similar to those used by U.S. border officials to handle immigration surges, Homan said. The government will not hesitate to deport parents who are in the country illegally, even if they have young U.S.-born children, he added, leaving it to those families to decide whether to exit together or be split up.

“Here’s the issue,” Homan said in a wide-ranging interview that included some of his most extensive comments to date on Trump’s plans for mass deportations. “You knew you were in the country illegally and chose to have a child. So you put your family in that position.”

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The federal judge who oversees immigration detention programs involving minors has set 20 days as the maximum amount of time children can be held at the family facilities. The deportation process often requires more time, so ICE has generally preferred to prioritize easier-to-remove adults. But Homan said that may change once Trump takes office.

“We’re going to need to construct family facilities,” he said. “How many beds we’re going to need will depend on what the data says.”

Homan was a senior official at ICE in 2012 when the agency deported more than 400,000 people, an all-time high.

President-elect Donald Trump confirmed in a recent interview with Kristen Welker that “I don’t want to be breaking up families” and, therefore, may have to deport families together.

Watch the clip below:

Welker: Your border czar Tom Homan says you’ll deport families together… is that the plan?

Trump: “Well, I don’t want to be breaking up families.

So the only way you don’t break up the family is you keep them together, and you have to send them all back.” pic.twitter.com/r4JJ99Z8El

— Tim Young (@TimRunsHisMouth) December 8, 2024