Trump says there’s ‘no price tag’ for his mass deportation plan

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Trump says there’s ‘no price tag’ for his mass deportation plan

*********** presidential nominee and former U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a visit at the frontier with Mexico in Hereford, Cochise County, Arizona, U.S. August 22, 2024. 

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President-elect Donald Trump on Thursday told NBC News that one of his first priorities upon taking office in January was to make the border “strong and powerful.” When questioned about his campaign promise of 

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, Trump said his administration would have “no choice” but to carry them out.

Trump said he considers 

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 over 

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 this week a mandate “to bring common sense” to the country.

“We obviously have to make the border strong and powerful and, and we have to — at the same time, we want people to come into our country,” he said. “And you know, I’m not somebody that says, ‘No, you can’t come in.’ We want people to come in.”

As a candidate, Trump had repeatedly vowed to carry out the 

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 Asked about the cost of his plan, he said, “It’s not a question of a price tag. It’s not — really, we have no choice. When people have ******* and murdered, when ***** lords have destroyed countries and now they’re going to go back to those countries because they’re not staying here. There is no price tag.”

It’s unclear how many undocumented immigrants there are in the U.S., but acting ICE Director Patrick J. Lechleitner 

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 in July that a mass deportation effort would be a huge logistical and financial challenge. Two former Trump administration officials involved in immigration during his first term told NBC News that the effort would require cooperation between a number of federal agencies, including the Justice Department and the Pentagon.

Trump’s win included

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who Democrats had tried to capture by pointing to 

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 and a pro-Trump comedian’s 

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In Thursday’s phone interview, he partially credited his message on immigration as a reason why he won the race, saying, “They want to have borders, and they like people coming in, but they have to come in with love for the country. They have to come in legally.”

Trump also noted the diverse coalition of voters he attracted, pointing to 

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 among Latino voters, 

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, women and 

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from 2020. 

“I started to see realignment could happen because the Democrats are not in line with the thinking of the country,” the president-elect said. “You can’t have defund the police, these kind of things. They don’t want to give up and they don’t work, and the people understand that.”

People hold signs that read “Mass Deportation Now” and “Make America Strong Again” on the third day of the *********** National Convention at the Fiserv Forum on July 17, 2024 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. 

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Trump also spoke about his phone calls with Harris and President Joe Biden since the election.

“Very nice calls, very respectful both ways,” Trump said, describing the conversations, adding that Harris “talked about transition, and she said she’d like it to be smooth as can be, which I agree with, of course.”

In her concession speech 

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, Harris said she told Trump, “We will help him and his team with their transition and that we will engage in a peaceful transfer of power.”

Biden, 

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in remarks from the White House on Thursday morning, urged voters to “accept the choice the country made” in re-electing Trump.

Trump also said that he and Biden on the phone agreed to get lunch together “very shortly.”

He also said he’s spoken to “probably” 70 world leaders since Wednesday morning, including a conversation with ******** Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, which the president-elect described as “a very good talk.”

Trump also said that he spoke with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, but didn’t divulge additional details about that conversation.

He added that he had not yet spoken with Russian President Vladimir ******, but “I think we’ll speak.”

Over the course of the campaign, Trump promised to end Russia’s war with Ukraine if elected, saying in September that he would negotiate a deal “

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