Tom Homan, the previous head of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) throughout Trump’s first time period, claimed no undocumented migrant could be exempt from potential deportation.
He outlined the concentrate on deporting the “worst of the worst” offenders and tightening border safety via measures like shutting down the U.S. southern border, wall building, and restarting the “Stay in Mexico” program.
Homan mentioned: “Individuals say, effectively, it sounds terrible merciless, you need to take away thousands and thousands.
“Let me say this. You’ve got a historic unlawful immigration disaster the place you may have numbers we’ve by no means seen earlier than, within the thousands and thousands and thousands and thousands, of unlawful aliens launched on this nation (and) we all know the overwhelming majority is not going to get asylum, so that they don’t qualify.”
The previous head of ICE proposed utilizing the U.S. navy to assist in transportation, infrastructure constructing, and facilitating deportations. Whereas the navy would not have arrest powers, they might help in holding services and logistics to help the rising variety of deportees.