Homan, regarded as the “architect” of the widely vilified family separation policy applied to undocumented immigrants in the first Trump administration, also said officials would not hesitate to deport parents whose children were American citizens because they had been born in the US.
US immigration authorities will resume the controversial policy of putting families with children in detention centres as part of a drive to deport undocumented immigrants, the incoming Trump administration’s ‘border czar’, Tom Homan, has said.
Family detentions will resume again for undocumented immigrants, says Trump ‘border czar’ Tom Homan also said that undocumented parents of US-born children will be deported, with or without their kids.
He said Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) officials would hold parents with children in soft-sided tent structures similar to those used to handle immigration surges at the US southern border.
It would be left to parents to decide whether they want to depart the country as a family, or leave their children in the US, thus splitting up their families.
