Trump border czar considering military bases to aid deportations: ‘Certainly on the table’

President-elect Donald Trump‘s border czar considers the U.S. military to be a “force multiplier“ in the soon-to-launch mass deportations of millions of illegal aliens and he wants to use Pentagon bases and planes to speed such operations.

“It’s something that’s certainly on the table,” Homan told The Wall Street Journal. “We’re waiting to see what Congress is going to give us for funding.”

There is precedent for enlisting military help on immigration matters, as both President Barack Obama and Joe Biden use military bases to house unaccompanied migrant children who crossed the border illegally without their parents. Biden also used military installations to house Afghan refugees.

Military assets under federal law could not be used to arrest illegal immigrants, but they could provide assistance after aliens are taken into custody by caring for them at bases or shipping them back to their home country.

Trump has said he will declare a national emergency on immigration  his first day in office, empowering his administration to tap money from the Pentagon in addition to any monies that Congress might appropriate.

Homan told the Journal he views the military as a “force multiplier” that could help with transportation, administrative duties, intelligence analysis and building infrastructure.

Homan said he hopes to have a better sense soon about how much money the Trump administration will need from Congress for securing the border and launching the mass deportations