Tom Homan, the incoming border czar, and other members of Trump’s staff have lobbied Congress to authorize large increases in spending for enforcement activities.
“The only way you don’t break up the family is you keep them together and you have to send them all back,”
Trump said, reinforcing his pledge to deport illegal immigrants, even those who have family members who are citizens of the United States.
According to Axios, researchers estimate that under Trump’s mass deportation proposal, the backlog of 3.7 million court cases in the U.S.
immigration system may take up to 16 years to complete, instead of the current four years. Experts estimate that the idea.
Will cost between $150 billion and $350 billion in infrastructure upgrades, including a massive expansion of detention facilities around the country.
