Trump: I 'wouldn't be opposed' to using private forces for deportations

(NewsNation) — President Donald Trump said Thursday that helium "wouldn't beryllium opposed" to utilizing backstage forces to assistance with deportations, but officials similar Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and borderline czar Tom Homan are already doing a “phenomenal” job.

Trump made the remarks successful the Oval Office successful effect to a question from NewsNation analogous Kellie Meyer during a associated property league with United Kingdom Prime Minister Keir Starmer.

According to a study by Politico, a radical of subject contractors, including erstwhile Blackwater CEO Erik Prince, projected the thought of utilizing a web of “processing camps” connected subject bases, a backstage fleet of 100 planes, and a “small army” of backstage citizens empowered to marque arrests for wide deportations to The White House.

Politico writes that this would beryllium an estimated $25 billion.

However, asked astir this connected NewsNation's "On Balance," Prince denied the report.

“This is not immoderate thought of a backstage army,” Prince said Tuesday. “It was a memo generated to picture however to execute the logistics indispensable to determination the millions of radical that they mean to deport.”

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