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Donald Trump vows to immediately deport up to 3 million undocumented immigrants

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There are an estimated 11 mn documented immigrants in US, several hundred thousand are believed to be Indian-Americans In line with his hardline immigration stance, President-elect  Donald Trump  has vowed to immediately deport up to three million undocumented immigrants, saying "we are getting them out of our country or we are going to incarcerate". "What we are going to do is get the people that are criminal and have criminal records, gang members, drug dealers, where a lot of these people, probably two million, it could be even three million, we are getting them out of our country or we are going to incarcerate," Trump told  CBS News . "But we're getting them out of our country, they're here illegally," the 70-year-old business tycoon-turned politician said in an excerpt released ahead of broadcast of the interview. During the election campaign, Trump had warned that those countries which do not accept these illegal  immigrants , he ...

US presidential primaries: Trump maintains stand on banning Muslims, deporting illegal immigrants

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US presidential primaries: Trump maintains stand on banning Muslims, deporting illegal immigrants Republican presumptive presidential nominee   Donald Trump   has reiterated his stand on banning Muslims from entering the US and deporting illegal immigrants out of the country. The rival Hillary Clinton campaign immediately slammed Trump asserting that the former secretary of state would not tolerate this divisive and dangerous direction as the US President. A day after he became a presumptive nominee, Trump refused to budge down from his primary election season's controversial rhetoric'sin a series of interviews. In an interview with   CNN , Trump did not back away from his proposal to temporarily ban all foreign Muslims from entering the US. At the same time, he said he would work with Muslim countries in the fight against terrorism. But the onus for this is on those countries first, he argued. Taking a rigid stand, Trump said he does not care if it hurts ...