Tom Homan, president-elect Donald Trump’s pick as the country’s “border czar”, revealed yesterday that an undisclosed location in Texas will be the beginnings of mass illegal immigrant deportation efforts under the new Trump administration.
During an interview on Fox News’ “’The Ingraham Angle”, Homan said that the Trump administration will “absolutely” use the gifted Texas land as a part of their deportation program.
“We absolutely will. When we find somebody, a targeted enforcement operation, when they get arrested, they’ll be detained,” Homan said during his Wednesday appearance on the show.
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“They have to be detained for a short time while we get travel documents from their host country. [The] host country has to agree that, ‘yeah, they’re our national’ – we get travel documents. We get flight arrangements, flight agreements. So we’re going to detain them for a little while,” he added.
This comes on the heels of Texas officials offering president-elect Trump a 1,400-acre ranch for his mass deportation plan.
Dawn Buckingham, the land commissioner of the Texas General Land Office, said on Tuesday her office is “fully prepared” to cooperate with federal agencies that will carry out Trump’s immigration agenda.
The 1,402-acre lot is in Starr County, which is west of South Padre Island, Texas.
During his presidential campaign, Trump vowed to perform the “largest deportation effort in American history.”
This week he indicated that he would declare an immigration national emergency and even utilize military assets to carry out the plan.
However, other cities throughout the country are pushing back on Trump’s plan, looking to protect immigrants before the president-elect’s inauguration in January.
According to The Hill, Los Angeles City Council unanimously passed a “sanctuary city” ordinance to shield migrants in the city.
Homan said on Wednesday’s interviews that ordinances such as what was passed in Los Angeles will not matter.
“Sanctuary states said they’re not allowing any detention facilities in their state — fine. Then we’ll arrest them. We’ll fly them out of the state and detain them outside the state, again, away — away from their families, their attorneys,” Homan said.
“That’s what you want, that’s what you get.”
“You’re not going to stop us doing what we’re going to do,” Homan added. “So we’ll move them to a state where we can detain them. There’s plenty of sheriffs across this country who are willing to give us empty beds. They want the funding and we can put them in a jail all across the country.”
Homan also recognized that the plan could take time to develop, but that it will be the top priority of Trump’s first 100 days in office.
“It’s going to cost money, so we got to have the money to do it,” he said. “But President Trump’s going to do everything he can to make sure we had the funds to do this.”