In an interview with ABC News' David Muir, Donald Trump refused to say if undocumented immigrants who don’t necessarily want to become citizens would have to leave the country, admitting the possibility that they could stay.
When asked if some of the 11 million undocumented immigrants could stay, Trump replied, "It could be but what’s going to happen is if you’re going to be a citizen, you’re going to leave and you're going to have to come back."
Muir followed up, asking about undocumented immigrants who did not want to become citizens of the U.S.
"They have to make a determination what happens when the border is secure," Trump said.
"So you’re open to them staying here undocumented?" Muir asked.
"I’m going to make a decision, or somebody will. Whether it’s me or somebody else because by that time we’ll have a secure border, we’ll have a wall," Trump said.
To catch David Muir's interview with Donald Trump and Mike Pence, watch "Good Morning America" at 7 a.m. Tuesday.
But, despite a hardline immigration speech last week, Trump admitted that he still grapples with the thought of deporting families whose children are U.S. citizens. Muir invoked comments made by top supporter Rudy Guiliani who said on Sunday during an interview with CNN that Trump "would find it very, very difficult to throw out a family that has been here for 15 years and they have three children, two of whom are citizens. That is not the kind of America he wants."
When asked about Giuliani's comments, Trump responded, "He’s 100% right. It’s very difficult. It’s a very difficult thing to do."
During his speech in Phoenix last Wednesday, he was emphatic in declaring that all undocumented immigrants would have to leave.
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