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On Sunday, Tom Homan, the one-time cop and former acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) under Trump, appeared on 60 Minutes to sell the plan as not potentially catastrophic. Homan, the "architect" of family separation who said he didn't "give a ----" about being sued over the infamous practice, has been defiantly positioning himself as the man to get the job done.
"Trump comes back in January, I'll be on his heels coming back, and I will run the biggest deportation force this country has ever seen," he said at the National Conservatism conference in Washington, DC, in July. "They ain't seen ---- yet. Wait until 2025."
To detain immigrants before carrying out their deportations, Miller said the Trump administration would build massive holding facilities that could accommodate between 50,000 to 70,000 people at any given time. Such an undertaking, he said, "would be greater than any national infrastructure project we've done to date."
A mass deportation of the scale Trump and Homan have been touting would likely have the same result. And as immigration experts have noted, such a plan would negatively impact mixed-status households, potentially tearing families apart. To that, Homan offered an alternative. "Is there a way to carry out mass deportation without separating families?" Vega asked. "Of course there is," Homan said. "Families can be deported together."
Imma just gonna put this here:
5th Amendment
No person shall {SNIP} be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law