Family detention, raids and ‘no price tag’: Trump’s mass deportation plan comes into focus

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Get our free Inside Washington email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. “The public may have voted in the abstract for more enforcement, but I don’t think they voted for more family separation or unnecessary cruelty to children,” ACLU immigrants’ rights attorney Lee Gerlent told The Independent. Family detention and separation “We’re going to need to construct family facilities,” Homan told The Washington Post. So you put your family in that position.” open image in gallery Homan wants to boost the number immigration enforcement agents and expand the number of beds at detention facilities Homan told NBC News that the administration will “end catch-and-release — and that includes family units, too,” referencing a phrase to describe immigrants who are released from detention while awaiting immigration court proceedings. open image in gallery Civil rights groups are urging the Biden administration to fast track legal pathways for undocumented immigrants before Trump returns to office The largely abandoned law states that the president may order the arrests and removal of non-citizens during times of “declared war” or during an “invasion” or “predatory incursion” by “any foreign nation or government,” but Trump and right-wing legal groups are expected to try to interpret the law more broadly by expanding the definition of “invasion” and “predatory incursion” to mean border crossings, and for drug cartels or criminal gangs to be considered a “foreign nation or government.” “I will rescue every city and town that has been invaded and conquered, and we will put these vicious and bloodthirsty criminals in jail, then kick them the hell out of our country as fast as possible,” Trump said in remarks from Madison Square Garden.