In a taped interview that aired Sunday on NBC’s Meet The Press, the GOP candidate said he plans to deport each of the roughly 11.3 million undocumented immigrants currently in the United States.
When pressed by host Chuck Todd about whether such an initiative would split families apart, Trump vowed to keep the families together, but the undocumented immigrants, “have to go.
“We’ll work with them to get back in,” he said.
Trump, who has led in nearly every GOP presidential poll since joining the race, vowed at the same time to rescind President Barack Obama’s executive order that protects children of undocumented workers from deportation because they were brought to this country through no fault of their own — the “DREAM Act.”
Likewise, Trump also vowed to end birthright citizenship, children of undocumented workers that were born in the United States.
The Trump campaign on Sunday also unveiled the candidate’s first publicly released white paper on immigration, a list of policy proposals which Trump developed with the assistance of Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Alabama.)
The immigration paper reiterates Trump’s position that Mexico and other other Latin America countries knowingly export their criminals and drug dealers into the U.S., and even offer literature on how to emigrate illegally.
The paper also calls for increased border security, and insists the Mexican government to build a giant wall at the U.S.-Mexico border.
The candidate insists he can pressure Mexico to fund such a venture, in part, by, “increase fees on all temporary visas issued to Mexican CEOs and diplomats,” according to Trump’s policy proposals.
