President-elect Donald Trump is expected to revive several of his past immigration policies when he returns to the White House next month, and his incoming border czar said family detention centers will be one of them.
President Joe Biden ended the government’s policy of holding families in detention centers in 2021, one of several policies the Trump administration will likely change. Tom Homan, whom Trump has tapped as his border czar, told the Washington Post that the administration will have facilities for families who have crossed into the country during surges.
“We’re going to need to construct family facilities,” Homan said. “How many beds we’re going to need will depend on what the data says.”
Homan reiterated a vow that the administration would resume deporting families with U.S.-born children but illegal immigrant parents. He said the option of whether the whole family or just the illegal immigrant parents would be deported would be up to the parents.
“Here’s the issue,” Homan said. “You knew you were in the country illegally and chose to have a child. So you put your family in that position.”
Since being named Trump’s border czar for the incoming administration, Homan has been seen as a