Exclusive: Banks says price tag for mass deportations "well worth it"

• The nonprofit American Immigration Council estimated earlier this year that a mass deportation operation would cost hundreds of billions of dollars.

The big picture: Trump and Republican candidates like Banks made the border one of their top issues on the campaign trail this year, and it helped them claim a GOP trifecta in Washington.

• "Republicans in the Senate are going to do this time what they didn't do last time, and that's fund the building of the wall," Banks said.
• Senate Republican leadership is planning to move quickly on a border package, making it their priority ahead of a tax package in Trump's first 100 days.