Trump Border Czar Sees $86 Billion Cost to Target Migrants
- Homan says deportations are cheaper than providing aid
- Administration faces staunch opposition from local officials
Tom Homan
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President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to oversee what he has promised to be the country’s largest ever deportation effort says he will need tens of billions of dollars to carry out the mission, but it will ultimately reduce taxpayers’ burden.
“That’s a lot of money. It is,” Tom Homan, who Trump named to lead deportation operations as border czar, said Monday night at a Republican women’s club in central Texas. “But right now we are spending billions of dollars in perpetuity.”