How many U.S. families could be affected by Trump's vows to do mass deportations?
About 1 in 25 U.S. households include a family member who is undocumented and could be impacted by former President Donald Trump's campaign promise of implementing the "largest domestic deportation operation" in U.S. history if he's elected in November.
Former President Donald Trump is sticking to a campaign promise to launch “the largest domestic deportation operation in American history,” which could tear apart millions of American families that are a mix of citizens and noncitizens.
Out of 130 million U.S. households, about 5.6 million — or 1 in 25 — include undocumented immigrants, according to Pew Research Center data provided to NBC News.
In an interview with Time magazine published this week, Trump reiterated his campaign trail promise to rid the country of people without legal permission to be here. He said he would first use the National Guard and local police, and then the military if warranted, to force the immigrants “back from where they came.”
“These are people that aren’t legally in our country. This is an invasion of our country. An invasion like probably no country has ever seen before,” he told Time.
While Trump often mentions migrants who have recently crossed the border into the U.S., the reality is that a big part of undocumented immigrants have deep-seated roots in the country and an operation targeting them would have significant ripple effects in American society.
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