Trump’s New Border Czar Wants To Start Deportations In Chicago

Tom Homan, president-elect Trump’s pick to lead border security, said this week that he wants to start the Trump administration’s planned deportations here in Chicago. Speaking at a holiday party in Portage Park, he said he would prosecute Mayor Brandon Johnson if he does not cooperate. Reset discusses how Homan’s plans could affect undocumented immigrants and the greater Chicago community with Mark Fleming of the National Immigrant Justice Center, Xanat Sobrevilla from Organized Communities Against Deportations and Beatriz Ponce De León, Deputy Mayor of Immigrant, Migrant and Refugee Rights. For a full archive of Reset interviews, head over to wbez.org/reset.