Thanedar, a progressive Democrat who immigrated to the United States from India in the 1980s, pressed Scott and Acting US Immigration and Customs Enforcement Director Todd Lyons during a hearing examining oversight of the Department of Homeland Security and its component agencies- including
Trump during his presidential campaign against his Deomcratic rival Kamala Harris had said that he would run the largest deportation programme in the history of the United States and vowed to deport illegal immigrants.