Donald Trump is very serious about his stance on illegal immigration, and fellow candidates, who as recently as last week continued to mock his run for the presidency, now seem to be joining his extreme positions, including calling to revoke automatic citizenship for children born in the United States to undocumented immigrants.
Trump on Sunday released his immigration policy statement that includes, among other things, building a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border — which Mexico will pay for; tripling the number of border patrol agents; the “mandatory return of all criminal aliens”; and ending birthright citizenship for American-born children of undocumented parents, calling it “the biggest magnet for illegal immigration.”
During an interview on NBC’s Meet the Press the same day, Trump said he would deport all of the 11 million immigrants who are here illegally, but would not separate families, because he would also deport their 4 four million children who were born in the United States.
