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Trump Calls for Deportation of All Undocumented Immigrants

HeadlineAug 17, 2015

On the Republican campaign trail, Donald Trump has released his policy on immigration. The plan includes forcing Mexico to pay for a border wall, deporting all undocumented immigrants, ending citizenship rights for children of immigrants born in the United States and revoking Obama’s executive orders on immigration. Trump spoke to Chuck Todd of NBC’s Meet the Press.

Donald Trump: “The executive order gets rescinded. One good thing about” —

Chuck Todd: “You’ll rescind — you’ll rescind that one, too?”

Donald Trump: “One good thing about” —

Chuck Todd: “You’ll rescind the DREAM Act executive order, the DACA?”

Donald Trump: “We’re going to have to. We have to make a whole new set of standards. And when people come in, they have to come in with” —

Chuck Todd: “So you’re going to split up families? You’re going to deport children?”

Donald Trump: “Chuck, Chuck, no, no. We’re going to keep the families together. We have to keep the families together, but they have to go.”

Chuck Todd: “But you’re going to keep them together out.”

Donald Trump: “But they have to go.”

Chuck Todd: “What if they have no place to go?”

Donald Trump: “We will work with them. They have to go.”

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