Trump says he’ll deport 2-3 million once in office

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In an interview with “60 Minutes’“s Lesley Stahl, president-elect Donald Trump stuck by his campaign promise to build a border wall and said that he would deport “probably 2 million” or even 3 million undocumented immigrants once he was in office.

“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 2 million, it could be even 3 million. We’re getting them out of our country or we’re going to incarcerate. But we’re getting them out of our country, they’re here illegally,” he said.

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“After the border is secured, and after everything gets normalized, we’re going to make a determination on the people that you’re talking about — who are terrific people, they’re terrific people. But we’re going to make a determination … but before we make that determination, Leslie, it’s very important, we’re going to secure our border.”

Stahl also asked about his border wall plans, saying, “They’re talking about a fence in the Republican Congress. Would you accept a fence?”

Trump replied, “For certain areas I would — but certain areas, a wall is more appropriate. I’m very good at this, it’s called construction.”