Trump border czar Tom Homan says he wants 100K migrant beds, funding from Congress for massive deportation operation

President-elect Donald Trump’s border czar, Tom Homan, revealed Wednesday he wants Congressional funding and 100,000 beds for migrants to support the largest deportation operation in history.

“We need Congress to give us some money to get this done,” Homan told CNN’s Kaitlan Collins on “The Source,” noting he doesn’t know “what the budget is” and therefore isn’t certain how many migrants are going to be deported.

Noting he doesn’t have full access to data given that Trump isn’t yet in office, he added, “I don’t know how many resources I have, I don’t know how much money I want to have to buy beds, I don’t know how much money I want to have to buy transportation contracts.”

Homan argued the American people voted for more funding for deportations since they elected Trump into office and that Congress should pass additional funding through reconciliation.

“We need at least 100,000 beds,” he went on, adding that the more deportation offers he gets, the more migrants the Trump administration can detain and deport.

“ICE offices across the county will be out on the streets” on day one, he added.

The military will also be asked to provide planes to transport migrants back across the border, Homan said — but would not be out arresting the migrants.

The operation will be “expensive,” Homan said, at least $86 billion, but argued that it will save tax money in the end due to the migrants no longer getting federal assistance.

“We want to arrest as many people as we can who are in the country illegally,” Homan added, saying he doesn’t have a specific number in mind.

Trump has vowed to carry out the largest deportation in US history beginning on day one of his presidency on Jan. 20, and has threatened countries by vowing to not do “business” with them if they refuse to accept their citizens back into their countries.