Trump Signals Families With Mixed Immigration Statuses May Be Deported, Vows End to Birthright Citizenship
Jack Phillips
By Jack Phillips
December 9, 2024
President-elect Donald Trump after a meeting at The Elysee Presidential Palace in Paris on Dec. 7, 2024. (Magali Cohen/Hans Lucas via AFP via Getty Images)
President-elect Donald Trump said in a new interview that he would work to end birthright citizenship and signaled that he could deport families with mixed immigration statuses.
Trump’s mass deportation proposal was a major component of his 2024 presidential campaign, and last month, the president-elect said he would declare a national emergency over the matter.
“I don’t want to be breaking up families, so the only way you don’t break up the family is you keep them together and you have to send them all back,” Trump said in an interview with Kristen Welker on NBC’s “Meet the Press” that aired on Dec. 8.
When asked by Welker about what that could mean for children who are in the United States legally despite that their parents are in the country illegally, Trump responded, “Well, what you’ve got to do if they want to stay with their father—look, we have to have rules and regulations.”
https://www.ntd.com/trump-signals-families-with-mixed-immigration-statuses-may-be-deported-vows-end-to-birthright-citizenship_1033460.html
