There are more than 11 million undocumented immigrants living in the United States.…about 3% of the population. Nearly 80% of them have lived in the country for a decade or more.
How realistic is this mass deportation campaign promise? What would be the human and financial cost?
We took these questions to one of the people Donald Trump has said would join him if he wins a second term – Tom Homan… who led immigration enforcement during the first Trump administration when thousands of migrant children were separated from their parents at the border.
Tom Homan: I hear a lot of people say, you know, the talk of a mass deportation is racist. It's-- it's-- it's threatening to immigrant community. It's not threatening to the immigrant community. It should be threatening to the illegal immigrant community. But on the heels of [a] historic illegal immigration crisis. That has to be done.
At the Republican National Convention this summer… Tom Homan, a Fox News contributor, was the proud pitchman of mass deportation…
Tom Homan speaking at the RNC: I got a message to the millions of illegal aliens that Joe Biden's released in our country. You better start packing now.
Over three decades, he worked his way up from border patrolman to acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement – the agency known as "ICE" -- during the first year and a half of the Trump administration.
This election cycle, former President Trump has mentioned mass deportation at nearly every rally…
Donald Trump: We will begin the largest deportation operation in the history of our country because we have no choice
Source: CBS New, October 27, 2024
