US authorities intend to deport all illegal migrants within four years, United States President-elect Donald Trump said on Sunday.
Trump promised that the mass deportation of illegals will begin on January 20, when the new president officially takes office. The head of state said he would start deportations with convicted illegal immigrants.
Trump added that US citizens whose family members include illegals may have to make a choice. He said:
“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.”
He said an exception is planned for “dreamers” – people who entered the US illegally at a young age and have already lived in the country for many years. The US president-elect also said he intends to abolish birthright citizenship.
The right to citizenship by birth is granted by the 14th Amendment to the US Constitution. It was adopted after the end of the Civil War on July 9, 1868. According to this amendment, “all persons born or naturalised in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside.”
“You know, we’re the only country that has it [birthright citizenship],” Trump said. He deemed it “ridiculous.”
In November, US President-elect Donald Trump said that the head of Mexico Claudia Sheinbaum during a telephone conversation promised to help him in the fight against illegal migration.
