Trump lays out agenda on border, tariffs and potential political retribution in interview
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🗓️ 9 December 2024
⏱️ 7 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Over the weekend, President-elect Donald Trump sat down for his first formal interview since winning a second term in the White House. |
| 0:08.0 | Trump spoke to meet the press about his plans for his new administration, doubling down on campaign promises around mass deportations, threatening political rivals, and praising January 6th insurrectionists. |
| 0:20.0 | Laura Barone Lopez has been following all this and joins us now. |
| 0:23.6 | Good to see you. |
| 0:24.6 | Good to be here. |
| 0:25.6 | So he has made clear that he plans to implement mass deportations early in his next administration. |
| 0:29.6 | What did he say about that and other plans for immigration? |
| 0:31.6 | So when it comes to mass deportation, Omna, the president-elect said that he would deport entire families. |
| 0:39.1 | I don't want to be breaking up families. So the only way you don't break up the family is you |
| 0:43.0 | keep them together and you have to send them all back. Even kids who are here legally? |
| 0:47.5 | Well, what's you going to do if they want to stay with the father? Look, we have to have rules and |
| 0:51.9 | regulations. According to Pew Research, Omna, that action could impact an estimated 4.4 million U.S. |
| 1:00.3 | born children under 18 who live with an unauthorized immigrant parent. Now, Trump also said |
| 1:07.8 | that he wants to end the 156-year-old right under the 14th Amendment to birthright citizenship. |
| 1:14.4 | Can you get around the 14th Amendment with an executive action? |
| 1:17.7 | Well, we're going to have to get a change. We'll maybe have to go back to the people, but we have to end it with the only country that has it. |
| 1:23.2 | Now it's false omna that the U.S. is the only country that has birthright citizenship. |
| 1:27.9 | Some three dozen countries have it as well, including Canada and Mexico. |
| 1:32.9 | But how would he do this? |
| 1:33.9 | Trump has said during the campaign trail and during statements that he could go around Congress |
| 1:38.0 | with an executive action directing agencies to require that at least one parent be a U.S. citizen |
| 1:43.9 | or a lawful permanent resident |
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