CNN anchor Kaitlan Collins grilled Trump border czar Tom Homan about calling the idea of immigration “concentration camps” ridiculous, while other incoming Trump officials “talk about large staging facilities.”

Homan has been vocal about starting President-elect Donald Trump’s mass deportation program “on day one” — and dismissing concerns about the price tag for the operation.

He has also derided critics of the mass detention facilities that will be needed, telling 60 Minutes “It’s not going to be a mass sweep of neighborhoods. It’s not going to be building concentration camps. I’ve read it all. It’s ridiculous.”

On Wednesday night’s edition of CNN’s The Source with Kaitlan Collins, Collins conducted a thorough grilling of Homan, during which she asked him about that comment — and contrasted it with plans for “large staging facilities.”

Homan confirmed “Yes, we’re going to build detention facilities” but did not call them “concentration camps”:

COLLINS: I do have a question on what this looks like. Because one thing I’ve heard you say repeatedly is mass deportations doesn’t mean tanks going down streets or huge sweeping raids, I think, of what a lot of people might have in mind. You said, the idea of building concentration camps is, quote, “Ridiculous.”

We have heard other people talk about large staging facilities. Stephen Miller, for example, who you’ll be working with.

On this, and what this looks like when it’s carried out, do you have any red lines of where you do not want to go, to carry out the pledge to deport mass amounts of people?

HOMAN: Look, this operation — me and Stephen Miller, there’s no — there’s no daylight between me and Stephen Miller. He was the architect of some of the most significant successful border policies in the history of this nation. President Trump had unprecedented success during his first administration.

But look, we — yes, we’re going to build detention facilities. Because, again, this is a massive deportation operation.

Let me explain why it’s a massive deportation operation. Millions of people enter this country illegally, claiming asylum. Secretary Mayorkas has said, under oath, numerous times, for those who don’t qualify for asylum, they’d be immediately removed. Of course, they didn’t do it, so we’re going to do it.

But people need to understand, the people coming to border claiming asylum, based on immigration court data, last decade, nine out of 10, nearly nine out of 10 people claiming asylum will get an order of removal.

So, when they lose that case? We’ll give them the due process. They can make an asylum claim. We’ll take them to a judge. But when a judge says, You’re leaving, they have to leave. Because we don’t — like I said, then what the hell are we doing? Just shut down immigration court, doesn’t mean anything anymore, and take the Border Patrol off the border, because there’s no consequences.

We’re going to enforce the law. And to do that–

COLLINS: Yes.

HOMAN: –we’re going to have teams out, throughout the country, arresting these targets. We got to build detention facilities to hold these people, so we can remove them.

COLLINS: Yes.

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HOMAN: But there will be a well-targeted enforcement operation.

COLLINS: Well-targeted enforcement operation. And you said that–

HOMAN: I’m sorry?

COLLINS: –starts on day one that Trump takes office.

Watch above via CNN’s The Source with Kaitlan Collins.

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