Incoming border czar Tom Homan denied a media report from earlier this week that said he was considering a "high-profile raid" of illegal immigrants at a Washington, D.C., workplace in the early days of President-elect Donald Trump's new administration, the Washington Examiner reported.
NBC News reported Wednesday that members of Trump's transition team were discussing logistics of an operation with current Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials to nab illegals working at D.C. businesses in agriculture, construction, hospitality, or healthcare.
"I can tell you we've got no plans for that. I talked to the incoming team. No one knows anything about this," Homan told the Examiner on Thursday.
Homan has vowed "shock and awe" in the early days of Trump's administration to locate and deport criminal illegal immigrants as well as those who have been ordered by a judge to be removed from the country, which numbers around 2 million people total, according to the Examiner.
"Everybody we arrest, we know who we're going to arrest. There's an operational plan. We know where we're going to arrest that person. It's not neighborhood sweeps, it's not the military driving through the neighborhoods. None of that garbage you read from the left," Homan told Newsmax last month.
Trump takes office on Jan. 20.
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