US President-elect Donald Trump's administration will deport families of illegal immigrants, including parents whose children were born on American soil, said Thomas Homan, the new head of border security in the Republican administration.
In an interview with the Washington Post, he said that the new American authorities intend to deport the parents, giving them the choice to leave alone, leaving the child behind, or take them with them.
"The problem is this. "You knew you were in the country illegally when you decided to have a child. So you put your family in this situation," Homan said.
The future Trump administration official added that the United States will return to the practice of detaining families of illegal immigrants. For this purpose, it is planned to build separate temporary buildings with "soft" conditions for being in them.
"We have to show the American people that we can do this and remain human. We cannot lose the faith of the American people," Homan said.
Donald Trump said earlier that on his first day in office he would sign a package of executive orders to close the US border to illegal immigrants.
