Donald Trump drops bombshell at 3 million US immigrants
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NEW YORK, Nov 13 (APP): US President-elect Donald Trump, speaking in a pre-taped interview that will air Sunday night, has said he plans to deport two to three million undocumented immigrants and build a wall on the Mexican border, but portions of it will likely be fencing.
"What we are going to do is get the people that are criminal and have criminal records, gang members, drug dealers, we have a lot of these people, probably two million or it could be even three million, we are getting them out of our country or we are going to incarcerate," Trump said in an interview with CBS news programme '60 Minutes'.
"But we're getting them out of our country. They're here illegally."
Trump campaigned on a promise to crack down on illegal immigration,
vowing to build a wall along the Mexican border. Asked in the 60 Minutes interview if he plans to actually build the wall, he said yes, adding that parts of the border might include fencing. "But for certain areas, a wall is appropriate. I'm very good at this. It's called construction," he said.
The same day -- when the interview will air -- House Speaker Paul Ryan, the senior-most Republican, told CNN there are no plans to create a national "deportation force." In the first post-election interview, Trump said he is pledged to deport or incarcerate millions of illegal immigrants.
"What we are going to do is get the people that are criminals and have criminal records, gang members, drug dealers, where a lot of these people, probably two million, it could be even three million, we are getting them out of our country or we are going to incarcerate," Trump said.
After the border is secure and after everything gets normalized, we're going to make a determination on the people that they're talking about who are terrific people, they're terrific people but we are gonna make a determination at that-- But before we make that determination-- it's very important, we are going to secure our border.
Ryan said securing the borders is the priority, not rounding up and deporting. He said Sunday that lawmakers have no plans to form a deportation force to round up undocumented immigrants, CNN reported.
"We are not planning on erecting a deportation force," Ryan told CNN's news programme 'State of the Union.' "Donald Trump is not planning on that," he said. "I think we should put people's minds at ease: That is not what our focus is. That is not what we're focused on."
"We're focused on securing the border," Ryan said.."We think that's first and foremost, before we get into any other immigration issue, we've got to know who's coming and going into the country -- we've got to secure the border."
As for that wall Trump talked about throughout his campaign for the presidency, he said that portion of it may actually be fencing.
When the CBS correspondent mentioned to him that the Republican Congress is talking about a fence, he responded, "For certain areas I would, but certain areas, a wall is more appropriate. I'm very good at this, it's called construction."
