US president-elect Donald Trump has said he will deport or jail up to three million illegal migrants initially.
Those targeted would be migrants with criminal records, such as gang members and drug dealers, he told US broadcaster CBS in an interview.
There were an estimated 178,000 illegal immigrants with criminal records in the US in 2010, according to a congressional report.
Trump also said his planned wall with Mexico could include fencing.
Meanwhile, the president-elect has chosen Reince Priebus, chairman of the Republican National Committee, as his future chief of staff, and Stephen Bannon, the head of his campaign and of the far-right website Breitbart, as chief strategist.
In his first wide-ranging interview as president-elect, Trump also said future Supreme Court nominees would be ‘pro-life’ and defend the constitutional right to bear arms.
He said he will not seek to overturn the legalisation of same-sex marriage, will forgo the president’s $400,000 salary, taking $1 a year instead.
Trump said he was ‘saddened’ by reports of harassment of minorities and called for it to ‘stop’.
He was ‘very proud’ of his campaign but wished it had been ‘softer, nicer’.
The Republican defeated Democrat Hillary Clinton in Tuesday’s presidential vote in a shock victory after opinion polls favoured Clinton.
He is due to take over at the White House on 20 January, when Barack Obama steps down after two terms in office.
An estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants live in the US, many of them from Mexico, and Trump made immigration and border control a key part of his campaign.
For the first time since winning the presidency, Donald Trump has put a number on how many people he plans to deport from US soil and it’s a big one – two to three million.
Although he says this group comprises violent criminals, drug-dealers and gang members, to hit such a high mark would involve either casting a very wide net that covers even the smallest infractions or also deporting legal alien residents of the US with criminal convictions.
To pull this off, an expanded ‘deportation force’ would almost certainly be necessary, but Trump’s advisers have spent the past few days downplaying the prospect of such an organisation.
Meanwhile, Trump also has curtailed the scope of his ‘big, beautiful’ border wall, acknowledging that it could be a fence in some areas. All of this is evidence that Trump is grappling with exactly how to make his controversial immigration promises a reality.
Proposing a multi-billion-dollar wall and mass deportations is easy. Delivering, in the face of fiscal realities and opposition within one’s own party, is a different matter entirely.
Asked about his plans for the Mexican border, Trump said ‘a wall is more appropriate’ in some parts but ‘there could be some fencing’.
Other undocumented migrants would be assessed once the border was secured, Trump added.
However, another top Republican, house speaker Paul Ryan, said on Sunday that border security was a greater priority than mass deportation.
‘We are not planning on erecting a deportation force,” he told CNN’s State of the Union programme. ‘I think we should put people’s minds at ease.’
Forcing Mexico to pay for a border wall became a rallying cry among Trump supporters during the campaign.
Their candidate caused outrage by suggesting Mexicans were exporting ‘their rapists’ to the US, along with drugs and other crime.
Elsewhere in the CBS interview, Trump promised to be ‘very restrained’ in his use of the Twitter social media platform in future.
Crediting his provocative use of Twitter for his success in the campaign, he said: ‘I find it tremendous. It’s a modern form of communication. There should be nothing we should be ashamed of.’
Those targeted would be migrants with criminal records, such as gang members and drug dealers, he told US broadcaster CBS in an interview.
There were an estimated 178,000 illegal immigrants with criminal records in the US in 2010, according to a congressional report.
Trump also said his planned wall with Mexico could include fencing.
Meanwhile, the president-elect has chosen Reince Priebus, chairman of the Republican National Committee, as his future chief of staff, and Stephen Bannon, the head of his campaign and of the far-right website Breitbart, as chief strategist.
In his first wide-ranging interview as president-elect, Trump also said future Supreme Court nominees would be ‘pro-life’ and defend the constitutional right to bear arms.
He said he will not seek to overturn the legalisation of same-sex marriage, will forgo the president’s $400,000 salary, taking $1 a year instead.
Trump said he was ‘saddened’ by reports of harassment of minorities and called for it to ‘stop’.
He was ‘very proud’ of his campaign but wished it had been ‘softer, nicer’.
The Republican defeated Democrat Hillary Clinton in Tuesday’s presidential vote in a shock victory after opinion polls favoured Clinton.
He is due to take over at the White House on 20 January, when Barack Obama steps down after two terms in office.
An estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants live in the US, many of them from Mexico, and Trump made immigration and border control a key part of his campaign.
For the first time since winning the presidency, Donald Trump has put a number on how many people he plans to deport from US soil and it’s a big one – two to three million.
Although he says this group comprises violent criminals, drug-dealers and gang members, to hit such a high mark would involve either casting a very wide net that covers even the smallest infractions or also deporting legal alien residents of the US with criminal convictions.
To pull this off, an expanded ‘deportation force’ would almost certainly be necessary, but Trump’s advisers have spent the past few days downplaying the prospect of such an organisation.
Meanwhile, Trump also has curtailed the scope of his ‘big, beautiful’ border wall, acknowledging that it could be a fence in some areas. All of this is evidence that Trump is grappling with exactly how to make his controversial immigration promises a reality.
Proposing a multi-billion-dollar wall and mass deportations is easy. Delivering, in the face of fiscal realities and opposition within one’s own party, is a different matter entirely.
Asked about his plans for the Mexican border, Trump said ‘a wall is more appropriate’ in some parts but ‘there could be some fencing’.
Other undocumented migrants would be assessed once the border was secured, Trump added.
However, another top Republican, house speaker Paul Ryan, said on Sunday that border security was a greater priority than mass deportation.
‘We are not planning on erecting a deportation force,” he told CNN’s State of the Union programme. ‘I think we should put people’s minds at ease.’
Forcing Mexico to pay for a border wall became a rallying cry among Trump supporters during the campaign.
Their candidate caused outrage by suggesting Mexicans were exporting ‘their rapists’ to the US, along with drugs and other crime.
Elsewhere in the CBS interview, Trump promised to be ‘very restrained’ in his use of the Twitter social media platform in future.
Crediting his provocative use of Twitter for his success in the campaign, he said: ‘I find it tremendous. It’s a modern form of communication. There should be nothing we should be ashamed of.’
Source; New Age
Pls DO mr Trump. Pls drive out those 3 million illegal immigrants.
Rest will be fun to watch !! You will be on yr knees begging the deported ones to return bcz the white-faced KKK supporter of yours are not for work, more for fun.