Thomas Homan once defended Obama-era policies and health care for transgender immigrants. Now he’s eyeing hotlines to report undocumented neighbors and arrests of local officials who get in the way.

Trump’s “border czar” Tom Homan told Fox News last Friday that Immigration and Customs Enforcement would launch large-scale raids in Chicago and other U.S. cities as early as Tuesday. Homan later said the administration is reconsidering the raids after details were leaked to the media.

The pope’s comments provided the latest indication of a potential rekindling of frictions between the Vatican and the next Trump White House.

Trump has vowed that mass deportation will be a day-one priority, saying he has “no choice” but to deport anyone who is in the U.S. illegally.

President-elect Donald Trump has promised to target immigrants with criminal records as he launches a "mass deportation" to remove millions of people from the country. In reality, the number of immigrants here illegally who have criminal records beyond immigration violations run into the hundreds of thousands – not millions.

President Donald Trump is planning sweeping new executive actions designed to crack down on illegal border crossings and target undocumented migrants already in the US.

Francis previously said that Trump cannot be a Christian if he plans to build a wall to keep migrants from Mexico out.