(NewsNation) — White Home border czar Tom Homan supplied particulars Saturday concerning the Trump administration’s plans to deploy 1,700 Nationwide Guard members throughout 19 states to help federal immigration officers.
The troops will likely be a “force multiplier” for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and assist with duties that embody transportation and intelligence, however not arrests, Homan tells NewsNation correspondent Libbey Dean.
“ICE is overwhelmed. ICE has less than 5,000 deportation officers. We’ve got well over 20 million illegal aliens,” Homan stated. “We’ve got almost 700,000 illegal aliens with criminal history that we’re trying to find.”
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Guard will enable ICE to concentrate on arrests: Homan
Leveraging Nationwide Guard manpower, Homan stated, will enable ICE officers to concentrate on discovering probably harmful migrants for eventual deportation from the U.S.
The plan to deploy Nationwide Guard troops was introduced earlier by the Pentagon. The mission is predicted to final no less than by way of mid-November.
The troops will deploy to Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Louisiana, Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, Ohio, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia and Wyoming, in accordance with a Protection Division official who spoke to NewsNation.
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The Nationwide Guard help in assist of ICE is completely different from the current deployment of troops to Washington, D.C., which the Trump administration is doing after the president complained about situations and crime throughout the nation’s capital.
“This can be a separate mission from the D.C. assist mission. Extra questions on personnel assist to ICE must be directed to the person states supporting the mission,” the Pentagon spokesperson stated.
Governors in a number of Republican-led states have supported President Donald Trump’s crime crackdown in D.C.
