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

Tom Homan, who Donald Trump has tapped as his incoming administration’s “border czar,” said Wednesday night that plans are underway to deport undocumented immigrants at large scale and that he’ll need funding from Congress to do so.

As President-elect Donald Trump’s team plans for Day One of mass deportations, border czar Tom Homan is warning that many illegal immigrants without criminal histories will undoubtedly get caught up in the arrests.

President-elect Donald Trump promised mass deportation on the campaign trail, and while the scale of it remains vague, the elements of the plan are an unlikely call back to former President Barack Obama who was billed the “deporter-in-chief” by Democrats and immigrant advocates.

As President-elect Donald Trump 's mass deportation plan takes shape, the appointment of Tom Homan as "border czar" may be facing significant obstacles.

This will be an expense — this will be an expensive operation. But in the long run, it should be a — it would be a huge tax savings on the American people,” Homan said.

Former President Donald Trumps transition team has reportedly started back-channel discussions with the governments of Mexico and El Salvador to prepare for a massive deportation plan if he returns to office.