'Shock and awe': What Trump 'border czar' Tom Homan has said he plans to do starting on Day 1

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

58% : "In a campaign video last year, Trump said that "on Day 1 of my new term in office," he will end the court-backed tradition of birthright citizenship, which for centuries has automatically bestowed U.S. citizenship to anyone born inside the United States, regardless of their parents' status.
57% : Trump says former ICE Director Tom Homan will be 'border czar'At a public event last year, he recounted how, over dinner in Las Vegas in the middle of 2022 -- several months before former President Donald Trump announced his reelection bid -- Trump confided in Homan that he was going to run for the White House again and asked if he could count on Homan to return with him.
52% : Homan has said ICE may have to detain some migrants for as long as several weeks.
52% : "Both Homan and Trump have said ending birthright citizenship will also put an end to so-called "birth tourism," when pregnant women from overseas travel to the United States so they can give birth on U.S. soil and ensure their new child is granted U.S. citizenship.
51% : Nevertheless, Homan has said that the U.S. government -- while still enforcing immigration laws -- should also expand current programs or establish new ones that would allow more immigrants to work inside the country temporarily"If there are jobs up here that we need these people for, then create a program, and bring them in legally," he told WWNY-TV in Watertown, New York, last week.
45% : By the time Trump took office in 2017, the government's limited capacity to detain migrants made it common practice for U.S. authorities to release nonviolent border-crossers claiming asylum into the United States while they waited for their cases to be heard by a judge -- a practice that has become known as "catch and release.
44% : "Congress is going to have to give a massive amount of detention beds," he said.ICE's current funding allows for less than 50,000 beds -- and though ICE has long relied on privately-run detention facilities to help house migrants, that multimillion-dollar business could grow under Trump's expected enforcement expansion.
42% : Trump suggested the practice stems from "a historical myth and a willful misinterpretation" of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution, which states that, "All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States.
42% : "In last year's campaign video, Trump said his executive order will stipulate that at least one parent of a U.S. citizen child will have to be a citizen or legal permanent resident themselves in order for the rest of the family to qualify for immigration benefits.
41% : ""As part of my plan to secure the border," Trump said in the campaign video, "I will sign an executive order making clear to federal agencies that under the correct interpretation of the law, going forward the future children of illegal aliens will not receive automatic U.S. citizenship.""My policy will choke off a major incentive for continued illegal immigration," he added.
40% : As Homan recalled, he told Trump, "I'll tell you what, sir, I'm so pissed off I'll come back for free.
32% : "MORE: Trump confirms plan to declare national emergency, use military for mass deportationsTo illustrate how migrants are exploiting the practice, Homan has often pointed to government data showing that, as he puts it, "nearly nine out of ten never get relief from the U.S. courts because they don't qualify" for asylum.
25% : MORE: Trump wants a mass deportation program.
18% : And in recent days, Trump has indicated he will seek help from the U.S. military by declaring a national emergency, though Trump did not offer any details.
18% : In his campaign video, Trump said his Day 1 executive order will end that "unfair practice" and, according to him, its abuse by parents who then "jump the line and get green cards for themselves and their family members" -- part of a practice known as "chain migration.

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