Former Acting ICE Director Says Mass Deportation Is Possible Without Separating Families If They Are “Deported Together”

Mass deportations can be carried out without separating families if families are deported together, Fox News correspondent Tom Homan said during an interview on CBS’ “60 Minutes.”

Homan served as acting director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement during the administration of former President Donald Trump.

Trump, who is currently seeking to win the 2024 presidential election to return to the White House next year, has said he will seek “largest mass deportation in” US history.

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Journalist Cecilia Vega asked Homan whether mass deportations could be carried out without breaking up families.

“Families can be deported together,” Homan responded.

When Vega asked why an American child would have to move to another country, Homan replied that the parent entered illegally in the United States and gave birth to a child while in the country illegally, and that the parent “created this crisis.”

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Homan rejected the idea that discussing mass deportation is racist or threatening to immigrants, but he said “it should be threatening to the undocumented immigrant community.”

He suggested that mass deportations were necessary following a “historic crisis of illegal immigration.”

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Homan noted that if he were at the helm, his first priorities in removal would be threats to public and national security.