Ex-acting ICE director says mass deportation possible without family separation if they're 'deported together'

Mass deportations could beryllium performed without separating families if families are deported together, Fox News contributor Tom Homan said during an question and reply connected CBS's "60 Minutes." 

Homan served arsenic acting head of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement during a information of erstwhile President Donald Trump's administration.

Trump, who is presently aiming to triumph nan 2024 statesmanlike predetermination truthful he tin return to nan White House adjacent year, has said that he would prosecute nan "largest wide deportation in" U.S. history.

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Tom Homan erstwhile acting head of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. (Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

Journalist Cecilia Vega asked Homan whether it's imaginable to execute wide deportations without splitting up families.

"Families tin beryllium deported together," Homan answered.

When Vega asked why an American kid should person to relocate to different country, Homan pointed retired that nan genitor illegally entered nan U.S. and had a kid while successful nan federation unlawfully, and that nan genitor "created that crisis."

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The U.S.-Mexico separator wall is seen successful Sasabe, Arizona. (VALERIE MACON/AFP via Getty Images)

Homan rejected nan conception that chat of wide deportation is racist aliases threatening to immigrants, but he said "it should beryllium threatening to nan forbidden migrant community."

He suggested that wide deportation is basal successful nan aftermath of nan "historic forbidden migration crisis."

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Homan is seen speaking astatine nan Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) successful National Harbor, Maryland, connected Thursday, Feb. 22, 2024. ( Kent Nishimura/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

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Homan noted that if he were astatine nan helm, his first priorities for removal would see nationalist information and nationalist information threats.