The plan would also include restarting the policy of detaining parents with their children, known as family detention, which immigration advocates have criticized.

Families of U.S. immigrants are raising concerns on social media after Donald Trump won the Presidential Election.

President-elect Donald Trump reportedly plans to name North Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem as Homeland Security secretary, in a trio of moves that advance a hard-line approach to immigration, including mass deportation and aggressive action against drug cartels.

President-elect Donald Trump is moving quickly to install immigration hardliners into prominent White House posts, suggesting his promise to implement sweeping new restrictions on migration and launch a mass deportation program could take priority in the first days of his new administration.