Tom Homan, President-elect Donald Trump’s point man on mass deportations and border security, told Newsmax on Thursday that other countries will be honest brokers in helping the administration address the crisis because Trump will be in the White House.
“They are because President Trump is coming in and he's a strong president,” Homan told “Finnerty.” “Look, Mexico didn't want to do [the] 'Remain in Mexico' program. They didn't want to put military on [their northern border]. President Trump is a strong president. He got them to do it because he's putting America first.
“Canada has already come to the table. They've reached out to me. Panama has reached out to me. El Salvador has reached out to me. These countries are already reaching out.
"President Trump's not even in office yet. He's making a difference around the globe. These countries are ready to come to the table because they know President Trump's coming to power, and President Trump is a strong president who won't take no for an answer.”
Homan hinted that Trump might return to the "Remain in Mexico" program, which the president-elect used in his first administration to force migrants who illegally cross the border to claim asylum wait in Mexico for their court date instead of being released into the U.S.
“I don't want to get ahead of the president what he's going to announce, but that was a game changer,” he said. “After about 60 days, people stopped coming when they realized they weren't being released into the United States to not show up in court or show up in court and lose their case. They stopped spending their life savings to give it to the criminal cartels, only to be crossed into the United States and later ordered deported.
“It saved a lot of lives. After 60 days, they stopped coming, which means less people died in the Darien Gap. Less people died in Central and South America. Less people died on the border. So, it was a game changer. And if we get that back, it's going to be another game changer.”
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