President-elect Donald Trump's incoming border czar, Tom Homan, told Illinois Republicans that Chicago will be "ground zero" for the administration mass deportation operation. Speaking at a Northwest Side GOP "holiday party," he said the plan includes verifying the status of asylum seekers and arresting both undocumented immigrants with criminal records as well as those who are with them.
"When they go find that bad guy, and when they find him, he's probably going to be with others. Others that are not a priority because they're not a criminal. But guess what? They're going to be arrested too," Homan said. He said he is forced to take that stance by Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson, although he did not specify why.
"Chicago is in trouble because your mayor sucks and your governor sucks," Homan told the audience. And even though he also called them to "come to the table" and negotiate, he later said that if Johnson "doesn't want to help, get the hell out of the way." He has also threatened to put Denver Mayor Mike Johnson in jail after he said he would not comply with federal immigration enforcement aimed at dismantling the city's sanctuary protections.
In another passage of the speech, Homan clarified that there is no plan to separate families that that "it may happen" nonetheless. "My goal is to enforce the law, but if you put yourself in that position, it may happen. But there's no plan in this administration right now to separate families. It just isn't. However we're, going to enforce the law. So if you put yourself in that position it's on you."
Trump said during the weekend that he does not want to "break up families" either, and that his solution for that was deporting them all. "You keep them together and you have to send them all back," he said on Sunday. In a wide-ranging interview with NBC News' Meet the Press, Trump continued to outline his plans to conduct mass deportation when he takes office, including a push to end birthright citizenship.
It is not the first time Homan claims he is being forced to act the way he plans to. "If it doesn't happen, we're sending out messages to the entire world," Homan said in an interview with NewsNation Now in early December. ". You can be released into the United States, either go to court or not show up in court and get an order removal, and we're not going to remove you. The whole world is going to come to this country."
"We are going to go do the job," continued Homan. "President Trump has a mandate for the American people. We've got to secure this country, and we have to save American lives."
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