Trumps border czar Tom Homan vows family facilities built for mass deportations will not be inhumane

President-elect Donald Trump’s “border czar” Tom Homan vowed to build “family facilities” to detain and deport the massive number of migrants who have entered the country illegally in recent years — along with their US-born children.Tens of thousands of migrant families would be able to be detained in the “soft-sided” tent structures before their deportation, Homan told the Washington Post in an in an interview published Thursday.But despite the aggressive removal operation slated to begin on Day One of Trump’s second term, the border czar promised that non-citizen parents with American children will have the opportunity to choose whether they want to be split up or be deported together.“We need to show the American people we can do this and not be inhumane about it,” he said.“We can’t lose the faith of the American people.”Homan, 63, has pledged to carry out the largest deportation operation in US history and previously stipulated that those who crossed the border illegally will not be spared from the removals, even if they are part of family units that include citizens.“Here’s the issue,” he added.

“You knew you were in the country illegally and chose to have a child.So you put your family in that position.”Congress will have to allocate sufficient funding for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to complete the operation, which Homan projected will be much “larger” than President Dwight D.

Eisenhower’s effort to kick out 1.1 million Mexican laborers in 1954.A former ICE official himself, Homan has estimated the agency will need at least 100,000 beds for detentions and at least $86 billion in funding for the mass exodus.“We’re going to need to construct family facilities,” he told the Washington Post.“How many beds we’re going to need will depend on what the data says.”The deportations will not involve “sweeps” through neighborhoods — as some of Homan’s critics have contended.“I don’t see ...