Illegal Immigrants Will Be Deported In Early 2017: Trump Prepares To Deport Or Incarcerate Millions Of ‘Criminal’ Undocumented Immigrants

Millions of illegal immigrants will be deported when Donald Trump takes office in January 2017. In a 60 Minutes interview Trump gives Sunday night, he vows to deport or incarcerate two or three million undocumented immigrants living in the United States who are criminals.

According to The Hill, Trump says illegal immigrants with “criminal records, gang members, and drug dealers,” will be deported. Trump says there are between two and three million of these undocumented immigrants and explains that the administration is going to get them out of the U.S.

Once the border is secure, Trump’s administration will then make a “determination” about what actions to pursue with the remainder of illegal immigrants living in the U.S.

“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,” Trump said. “But before we make that determination… it’s very important, we are going to secure our border.”

NEW: Donald Trump pledges to immediately deport 2 to 3 million criminal illegal immigrants https://t.co/95EPKqgKny pic.twitter.com/IBpaVdipZs

— Washington Examiner (@dcexaminer) November 13, 2016

The report notes that Donald Trump initially suggested his administration would set up a “deportation force” to deport its more than 11 million undocumented immigrants. He’s since softened his hard line stance on that proposal, as Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) said. The speaker explains that a plan to force illegal immigrants from the nation is less likely. He told CNN’s State of the Union on Sunday that Trump is not planning to erect a deportation force whatsoever.

The Washington Post wrote a piece about the havoc rounding up the undocumented immigrants to be deported would entail. It’s an unprecedented move in the U.S. and would cost an exorbitant amount of money. It would also be easy for Trump to change President Obama’s current program to shield children of illegal immigrants from being deported.

“Trump will have the administrative tools to massively scale back the Obama administration’s efforts to shield millions of immigrants from deportation, former federal officials say,” the article reads. “With the stroke of a pen, for example, Trump could reverse a program that has protected hundreds of thousands of people brought to the United States illegally as children — something he has vowed to do.”

It seems as if Trump isn’t going to the extreme of mass deportation of undocumented immigrants, but he has the power to do so.

Ryan: Trump not planning on ‘deportation force’ https://t.co/gaAQT3ti11 pic.twitter.com/dnY5hgoT3q

— The Hill (@thehill) November 13, 2016

John Sandweg, former acting director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement that is a part of DHS that would oversee mass deportations, said he expects monumental change where enforcement is concerned. He reveals that reforms made on immigration enforcement during Obama’s eight years in office have all been “administrative, not statutory,” meaning Trump has “tremendous flexibility to reverse course on all those policies.”

The Post writes that Trump’s vow to deport illegal immigrants come at a time when the number of them crossing the southwest border has declined in the past decade. There is more going back to Mexico instead of coming into the U.S.

In Trump’s 60 Minutes interview with Scott Pelley during his run for the presidency, he said that any deportations he outlined would be carried out in a “very humane” way. He was a fan of the process that Dwight Eisenhower authorized in 1954 in which hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants were rounded up and deported back to Mexico. Trump said it was “very successfully done.” He added that although it wasn’t nice, “sometimes not everything is nice.” When Pelley responded by saying it doesn’t sound practical and that there’s “something called civil rights,” Trump answered by saying, “There is also called, ‘We have a country.'”

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