Deportation For Christmas: Donald Trump Jr. Posts Holiday Meme With Ominous Warning

Donald Trump Jr., the eldest son of President-elect Donald Trump, shared a Christmas-themed meme on social media mocking the people set to be deported as part of his father's plan to conduct the "largest deportation operation in American history."

"He's making a list, he's checking it twice, we're gonna find out who's getting deported by ICE," reads the picture posted by Trump Jr., which features a seemingly AI-generated image of his father dressed as Santa Claus at the southern border.

The publication comes as officials from the incoming administration continue to provide details about what the operation will look like. Trump's pick for border czar, Tom Homan, anticipated that families will be held in tent-like structures similar to those used by immigration enforcement officials when they encounter immigration surges. Called "residential centers," the facilities held some 3,000 beds as well as recreational and educational programming.

Immigration advocates and pediatricians said they were harmful for children, but Homan pointed at the need to make use of them. "We're going to need to construct family facilities," he said. "How many beds we're going to need will depend on what the data says."

Trump has already said he is open to building facilities to hold people selected for deportation, including camps. In his interview with Time magazine, in which he was named "Person of the Year," Trump said he will do "whatever it takes to get them out." "Again, I'll do it absolutely within the confines of the law, but if it needs new camps, but I hope we're not going to need too many because I want to get them out, and I don't want them sitting in camp for the next 20 years."

Looking at the fate of families where parents are undocumented but children are not, Homan reiterated the incoming administration's willingness of deporting them all together or giving parents a choice to leave them behind. "You knew you were in the country illegally and chose to have a child. So you put your family in that position," he said.

Trump has also addressed family deportations, saying he doesn't believe families will be separated "because we will send the whole family back to the country." I would much rather deport them together, yes, than separate."

On the other side of the border, Mexican authorities are preparing to open over two dozen additional migrant shelters to deal with the expected influx of deportees.

Baja California Gov. Marina del Pilar Ávila Olmeda said 25 shelters will open exclusively to deal with the expected influx of deported migrants. Five of them will be set up in Tijuana and two others in Mexicali, the capital of Baja.

Each one will house up to 500 people. Some will exclusively hold single men, other women, unaccompanied minors and families.

"This is a strategic plan to accommodate exclusively people who get deported after January 20," the official said, adding that they are taking Trump's threats seriously. "We believe this time he will be stricter and tougher when it comes to deportations," Ávila Olmeda said.