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(The Hill) – Incoming "border czar" Tom Homan said Monday that President-elect Trump's medication volition crank up workplace raids arsenic portion of its broader migration crackdown.
Speaking connected “Fox & Friends,” the erstwhile manager of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) said workplace raids would code labour and enactment trafficking.
“Where bash we find astir victims of enactment trafficking and forced labour trafficking? At worksites,” Homan told Steve Doocy.
But advocates accidental that attack is improbable to assistance combat trafficking.
“He’s conflating the traffickers with the radical being trafficked,” said Heidi Altman, manager of national advocacy astatine the National Immigration Law Center.
“Tom Homan is skilled astatine utilizing nationalist information rhetoric to warrant vicious tactics that teardrop families apart.”
Homan, an early proponent of the “zero tolerance” argumentation that separated much than 4,000 children from their parents successful the archetypal Trump administration, said helium volition prioritize “public information threats and nationalist information threats” for deportation arsenic borderline czar.
But Homan said overseas nationals with orders of deportation “became a fugitive,” suggesting immigrants without transgression records but with last orders of deportation would beryllium precocious connected the database of deportation priorities.
Homan told Doocy that the Biden medication “has mislaid implicit 300,000 children that were smuggled successful this state by transgression cartels,” a notation to a debunked run assertion voiced some by Trump and Vice President-elect JD Vance regarding a report published by the Homeland Security Office of Inspector General successful August.
According to the report, 291,000 unaccompanied children had not received a announcement to look successful tribunal arsenic of May 2024, and a further 32,000 received a announcement but did not appear.
Those figures related to astir 450,000 unaccompanied children released by ICE to the Department of Health and Human Services betwixt October 2018 and September 2023, meaning a fig of them were released by the archetypal Trump administration.
“This is not a ‘missing kids’ problem; it’s a ‘missing paperwork’ problem,” Jonathan Beier, subordinate manager of probe and valuation for the Acacia Center for Justice’s Unaccompanied Children Program, told The Associated Press in October.
