President-elect Trump's appointed "border czar" said Monday that a potential legislative solution for Dreamers should be contingent on Democrats supporting increased border security and deportation measures.

Trump, in an interview with "Meet the Press," said he would work with Democrats to "do something" about Dreamers, people brought to the United States as children who have remained in the country illegally.

Tom Homan, Trump's border czar, told Fox News that any bipartisan deal would have to include increased border measures. He argued Trump had previously floated a similar deal, but that it was rejected by Democrats over concerns with border wall funding.

"The bottom line is border walls work. Border walls save lives. Women and children can’t get over that wall, which means they go to a place where there’s not a wall. And what’s waiting on them? The men and women of the Border Patrol who’s going to take care of their medical needs right off the bat," Homan said.

"So, President Trump will put it on the table again," he continued. "But I would not go forward with it until the Democrats show this president that they’re willing to secure this border and willing to support him and the removal of public safety threats that are illegal here in the United States. So, it’s going to be put on the table once again. And I support the president in that idea."

Trump in his "Meet the Press" interview emphasized his plans to carry out a massive deportation operation of those in the country without legal status and to crack down on immigration through other means, including by trying to ban birthright citizenship.

But on Dreamers, Trump appeared more open to finding a way for those individuals to remain in the country.

"I want to be able to work something out, and it should’ve been able to be worked out over the last three or four years, and it never got worked out," Trump said, arguing Democrats should have taken care of the issue when they controlled the White House and Congress.

"I never understood why, because they always seemed to want to do it, but then when it comes down to it, they don’t," he said. "I think we can work with the Democrats and work something out."