Donald Trump Vows To Deport Close To Three Million Immigrants; Promises to Make Good Campagin Promise

By Roy Narra - 14 Nov '16 05:10AM

President-elect Donald Trump might have erased banning Muslims on his website but he could still be true to his other xenophobic proposals. In a pre-taped interview, he said he as plans to deport two to three million undocumented immigrants once he assumed office.

In his interview with CBS' 60 Minutes, Trump said these illegal immigrants with criminal records would be deported or incarcerated. He also tagged them as gang members and drug dealers.

Trump was known to Americans on his proposal of building a wall along the Mexican border to prevent illegal immigration. He said in the interview that he is serious with that.

The border might add fencing, he said. For certain areas, Trump said the wall is appropriate and he said that he is good at construction.

However, experts said that Trump may not be accurate on his figure of illegal immigrants getting deportation. The Department of Homeland Security and Migration Policy Institute said that there are 1.9 million "removable criminal aliens" in the country.

The figure has also two categories: non-US citizen with criminal records but are legal residents and undocumented non-US citizens with criminal records. With that, only 820,000 are undocumented immigrants who had a criminal record.

However, Republican House Speaker Paul Ryan said the words that Trump said on 60 Minutes contradicts his deportation plan. He said that Trump will advocate strong border security for security of the country but not going to deport millions of immigrants.

Ryan said in an interview with CNN that Trump has no plan at all in the deportation and building a wall along Mexico, saying that people should not focus on that and the administration will just secure the border.

Trump also dismissed the anxious feeling by minorities, saying that the media had framed him up that way and it's not his fault if they are scared of him. Demonstrations are currently happening in various places in America after people treated them with disrespect of their heritage or religion in the name of Trump.