President-elect Donald Trump has already planned his first-day crackdown on illegal immigration that might snare a few U.S. citizens, and that's just fine.
In a chat with NBC's "Meet the Press," the president-elect saw no reason why something like citizenship should get in the way of his mass deportation scheme.
When interviewer Kristen Welker asked the president how he planned to deal with families with mixed immigration statuses, Trump said that he would "keep them together," provided they all chose to leave the country.
It makes sense. If the American family of an illegal doesn't want to be seperated, then they can only do the most decent and appropriate thing to do, join the illegal member in the deportation.
"I don’t want to be breaking up families, so the only way you don’t break up the family is you keep them together and you have to send them all back," he said.
"I’ll tell you what’s going to be horrible, when we take a wonderful young woman who’s with a criminal. And they show the woman, and she could stay by the law, but they show the woman being taken out," he said. "Your cameras are focused on her as she’s crying as she’s being taken out of our country. And then the public turns against us. But we have to do our job."
Trump also said he's looking to end birthright citizenship, as it complicates his deportation schemes for people who immigrated illegally and then had children.
"We have to end it," he said of the right that is currently being protected under the 14th Amendment.