Trump Says Mass Deportations Still Planned Despite Border Bill
Central American migrants arrive in Ciudad Hidalgo in Chiapas State, Mexico, after illegally crossing the Suchiate river from Tecun Uman in Guatemala on a makeshift raft.
Photographer: Pedro Pardo/AFP via Getty Images
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President Donald Trump said he would stick to a plan to step up deportations of undocumented immigrants living in the U.S. despite Congress passing legislation this week to improve border security.
The deportations will begin in about a week “unless we do something pretty miraculous,” Trump said at a news conference following the Group of 20 summit in Osaka, Japan on Saturday. “It’s really, honestly it’s very unfair, but yeah we will be removing a large number of people.”