Trump: Criminals will be deported first

[mystery-ak]

Trump: Criminals will be deported first

By Louis Nelson

11/13/16 12:08 PM EST

Donald Trump will begin tackling the issue of illegal immigration by rounding up and deporting undocumented immigrants with criminal records, a group that he estimates at 2 million to 3 million people, the president-elect said in an interview to air 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 2 million, it could be even 3 million, we are getting them out of our country or we are going to incarcerate,” he said in the interview, to air on “60 Minutes” on CBS.

“But we're getting them out of our country; they're here illegally.”

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http://www.politico.com/story/2016/11/donald-trump-immigrants-criminals-231293

[EC]

OK. Solid, sensible, doable.

That is more like it.

[sinkspur]

Trump continues to use the figures "2 maybe 3 million," which is sourced from the Center for Immigration Studies.  CIS opposes all immigration, legal and illegal.

Trump cites federal data, saying there are at least 2 million criminal aliens in the country. This number comes from a Department of Homeland Security fiscal 2013 report saying there were 1.9 million “removable criminal aliens.”

But this figure refers to a broader population of non-U.S. citizens with criminal convictions. It includes undocumented immigrants and people who are lawful permanent residents, or those who have temporary visas. Lawfully present people in the United States who are convicted of serious crimes are subject to removal from the country.

The exact number of illegally present non-citizens within that 1.9 million figure is not clear. Calculations by the Migration Policy Institute, a think tank that doesn’t take positions on immigration legislation, show about 820,000 (43 percent) of the 1.9 million are unauthorized immigrants with criminal convictions.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2016/09/02/trumps-fuzzy-math-on-undocumented-immigrants-convicted-of-crimes/

[Vulcan]

Trump: Criminals will be deported first

crim·i·nal
ˈkrimənl/Submit
noun
1. a person who has committed a crime.


Every foreigner who entered this country ILLEGALLY committed a crime and by definition is a criminal. 

Deport them all.

[EC]

@Vulcan

True.

But it's got to start somewhere - so start with the ones here to wreck shit. Who are gleeful participants in the American nightmare, not the American Dream. Not only does it give the opposition no leg to stand on whatsoever, but it's better optics than cattle cars rounding up the quiet ones ....

[FreeReign]

Trump: Criminals will be deported first

....

Okay, then what.

[rodamala]

Okay, then what.

Then Rinse Preblust and Paul Ryan let them back in.