Trump's new 'border czar' laughs at idea he'd deport US citizens — after saying he would

Donald Trump's new "border czar" Tom Homan, a former acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement who vowed at the Republican National Convention to deport "millions" of people scoffed at the idea he would deport U.S. citizens along with immigrants during a Fox News interview Tuesday night with host Jesse Watters, dismissing it as panicked leftist fearmongering.

One problem: He has suggested in recent months he would do just that.

"Are you going to deport doctors?" asked Watters. "They're saying there's going to be migrant doctors in the middle of surgery, and ICE is just going to be dragging them out in their scrubs. Have you heard of that happening?"

Watters' inflammatory question was met with a laugh.

"I have never heard of that happening," said Homan. "I heard the other day that we're going to deport U.S. citizens too, I heard that one. But look, public safety threats, national security threats ... those who had due process at taxpayer's expense were ordered removed and went into hiding, fugitives. And look, if you're in the country illegally, you're not off the table."

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His flippant dismissal of the idea is at odds with a previous statement he gave during a CBS "60 Minutes" interview just before the election.

When asked by reporter Cecilia Vega, "Why should a child who is an American citizen have to pack up and move to a country that they don't know?" Homan responded: "Families can be deported together."

"Their parent absolutely entered the country illegally, had a child knowing he was in the country illegally. So he created that crisis," he said at the time.

Children born on U.S. soil are automatically citizens under the 14th Amendment, even if neither parent is a citizen — a legal fact conclusively and firmly held by generations of jurists. Trump, however, has appeared keen on doing away with such protections, even vowing that his administration will not issue passports to such children.

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