US quiver Authorities will resume a controversial plan to place families with children in detention centers as part of a drive to deport incoming undocumented immigrants. trumpet The administration’s ‘borm czar’, Tom Homan, said.
man as the “engineer” of the widely vilified family separation policy undocumented immigrants in the first Trump administration, officials also said they would not hesitate to deport parents whose children were American citizens because they were born in the US.
The parents are left to decide whether they want to leave the country as a family or leave their children in the US, thus splitting their families.
“Here’s the issue,” Homan said in an interview interview with the Washington Post. “You knew you were in the country illegally and you chose to have a child. so you put your family in that position.’
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials would hold parents with their children in a soft-sided tent structure similar to the ones used to handle immigration at the southern US border.
“We need to build a family,” Homan said. “How many beds you’re going to need depends on what the data says.”
The Biden administration ended family detention in 2021, closing three facilities with about 3,000 beds that Ice had operated. The closures have been followed by criticism from immigration advocates and pediatricians, who have warned that such conditions are harmful to children.
Homan’s vow to revive it is his clearest sign yet as President Donald Trump plans to renew his pledge to deport an estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants.
Trump said the administration’s plan would be to deport families together, but acknowledged that the administration lacked the legal authority to deport children who were born in the U.S. — thus placing the burden on whether to split the family on the immigrant parents.
He added: “We need to show the American people that they can do this and not be rude about it. We cannot lose the trust of the American people.”
In Trump’s first presidency, with which he acted as director of the Ice, Homan was believed to be a force to be drawn from time to time. separate “zero tolerance” policy on migrants who saw 4,000 children separated from their parents after crossing the southern border into the US.
Homan told the Post that he would not commit to a relocation until he knows what resources are available to expand Ice’s capacity, adding, “I’m setting myself up for disappointment.”
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As the term White House czar – a position that does not require Senate confirmation – Homan will not have direct control over Ice, who will be under the supervision of Kristi Noah, Trump’s nominee for homeland security secretary if confirmed.
While Trump and senior advisers have talked about using the national guard military to carry out deportations, Homan said only law enforcement officials would have the power to enforce immigration, while military personnel would be restricted to transportation and other support services.
“I don’t see this as sweeping, and the military going through the neighbors,” he said. Rather, they are found to be “delayed” on their criminal records.
He has before He vowed to bind local Democratic mayors and the officers who seek narrow deportations.
Work raids by ICE officials, ended by the Biden administration, Homan said. “We haven’t really worked out an operational enforcement plan. We know the job is going to be disrupted.”
He also said he would urge the new administration to reduce the “staycation” plan — also ditched by Biden — that required asylum seekers to wait outside the U.S. while their applications were being considered.