President-elect Donald Trump 's border czar, Tom Homan, has shared new details about plans to reinstate family detention policies at the U.S.-Mexico border. Newsweek has contacted the Trump-Vance transition team for comment via email.

Tom Homan oversaw implementation of the “zero tolerance” policy that separated more than 4,000 children from their parents during Trump’s first term.

Tom Homan, the incoming “border czar” for President-elect Trump’s administration, said he will reinstate policies that hold families in detention centers in an interview with The Washington Post

Donald Trump’s incoming border czar previews an impossible choice for migrant families: be separated or leave together.

President-elect Trump’s “border czar” Tom Homan said in a Thursday interview that halfway homes for children of non-U.S. citizens may be a necessary part of Trump’s plans for mass deportation of immigrants lacking permanent legal status.

We’re going to need to construct family facilities,” incoming border czar Tom Homan said. “How many beds we’re going to need will depend on what the data says.”

According to incoming “border czar” Tom Homan, the United States is poised to reintroduce family detention centers once President-elect Donald Trump takes office. In an interview published by The Washington Post on Thursday (Dec.