Trump says he will focus deportation efforts on criminals

President-elect Donald Trump said Sunday that he would deport undocumented immigrants who have "criminal records," a policy that would affect between 1 million and 3 million people.


Trump discussed his plans during an interview with the CBS program "60 Minutes" that will air on Sunday night.

"What we are going to do is get the people that are criminal 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. "But we're getting them out of our country, they're here illegally."

Trump's statements were more measured than during the campaign, when he took a hard-line position on illegal immigration and promised to carry out mass deportations of the estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants in the United States.

The 70-year-old president-elect said he planned to first secure the border and would then decide what to do with the rest of the country's undocumented immigrants.
 EFE
13/11/16