Trump’s border czar plans weekly White House briefings to announce arrests and crackdown on deportations

The man who will lead Donald Trump’s crackdown on illegal immigrants wants to hold weekly White House briefings on arrests and deportations.

Tom Homan, who will become border czar when Trump is sworn in on Jan. 20, said Sunday evening that he planned to enforce the law “without apology.”

Trump has ordered him to close the southern border, launch a massive deportation program and, he says, track down 300,000 missing undocumented children.

Homan told a roundtable with donors in Naples, Florida, that he did not plan to worry about negative headlines but would ensure that American voters were regularly informed about the pace of deportations.

“We have to be very transparent,” he said.

“There needs to be a weekly press conference at the White House about who exactly we arrest and rescue, who we put in jail, who we deport, so that the American people know that we keep our word. ‘

In a recent JL Partners poll for DailyMail.com, voters said the border crisis was the second most important factor in how they cast their votes. Inflation was the only problem that prevailed.

That makes Homan, a former police officer and acting head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement during Trump’s first term, a key figure in the new administration.

“Everything changes on January 20,” he said at the fundraiser for a new Young Republicans Club in Naples.

Trump’s transition team has no idea whether it will hold daily news briefings at the White House.

Some insiders suggest they could be held less frequently, but with key people from the administration, instead of the press secretary.

The Trump transition did not respond to a request for comment on any plans for deportation briefings.

Homan said he had been on the road nonstop since being appointed to the new position, and that his previous job as a Fox News commentator would make him a natural to present updates to the media.

He pledged on the first day of trial to end catch-and-release, in which asylum seekers are immediately released pending trial because there are no facilities to house or process them.

‘It will be sad. It would be controversial, it would be emotional. It always is,” he said.

“And what the media will do… the first woman crying, the first child crying will be news and my picture will be splashed everywhere like the devil.

‘I am the ‘spawn of Satan’, I read recently.’

‘Say what you want. I don’t give a shit. We will do this in the most humane way possible. We are going to enforce the law without apology.”

The plan is a key part of Trump’s plan for what he calls the “largest deportation in history.”

But it comes with a catch. What to do with illegal immigrants from countries that don’t want them back?

Homan told DailyMail.com that he is already in negotiations to find an alternative destination in countries willing to host them.

“I’m not waiting for January 20 (when Trump is inaugurated),” Homan said. ‘We are already in discussions. So we will find a third country.

“Until they sign an agreement, which we have, I’m not going to take credit.”

The idea has been floating around Washington DC for months, inspired in part by how Britain struck a deal with the small African country of Rwanda to house refugees.

However, that plan was hampered by round after round of legal challenges and ultimately abandoned this year by Keir Starmer’s new Labor government.

And a 2019 effort by Trump to send migrants to third countries was challenged by the American Civil Liberties Union and other immigrant rights groups, which said sending vulnerable people to unknown countries would put them at risk.

Homan declined to discuss which countries he was in talks with.

But previous reports suggested Turks and Caicos, the Bahamas, Panama and Grenada were possible destinations.

The Bahamas has since ruled out the idea. But Guatemala could offer an alternative after an official told Reuters the country may be open to the idea.

Trump made cracking down on illegal immigration the cornerstone of his re-election campaign.

And Homan said Trump had given him three priorities: securing the border; launching a deportation action; and locating what he says are 300,000 undocumented children who went missing in the US

He admitted that it would be difficult to scale up a deportation operation quickly.

“We have limited facilities, but we’re going to do everything we can with what we have,” he said. “I hope Congress takes swift action on the budget.”

He said $86 billion, an amount proposed in Congress, was a good starting point to begin financing needed beds and operating costs.

‘Suppose someone is illegal. Let’s say he’s a criminal. He was convicted of murder, originally from El Salvador,” he said.

“I can’t put him on a plane on day one. You have to hold it long enough to get travel documents and landing rights. El Salvador must admit that it is their citizen.

‘That takes a few days to a few weeks. So I need beds.’

Which beds were occupied for about 30 days straight, he said he needed thousands more.

“That’s why every interview I did, I said I had to get the money from Congress,” he said.

“I think Congress got a strong message in November. The American people want this to happen, so make it happen. Give us the money we need.