Trump Defends Plan To Offer $1,000 To Illegal Immigrants To Spur Self-Deportations

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Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office, President Trump defended a plan to pay illegal immigrants $1,000 to self-deport.

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00:00have a little fun don't you uh yeah please go ahead tell me about the program that's just been

00:05introduced to give undocumented immigrants living in the united states about me a thousand dollars

00:10to self-deport um can you just tell us a little bit of the new program yeah we have millions of

00:16people that have come into this country illegally through an administration that didn't know what

00:20they were doing they didn't have a clue and now we find out officially they didn't because the

00:24president was incompetent but i could have told you that before and they've allowed millions and

00:29millions of people to pour in murderers drug dealers the biggest drug dealers in the world

00:35actually terrorists come in uh emptied prisons from many countries not just south america all over

00:42the world they emptied their prisons into our beautiful usa and uh to get that many people

00:4921 million people we think the real number is but let's say 3 million of them are serious criminals

00:54uh 11 888 murderers many of whom murdered more than one person it's hard to believe we have to

01:03even talk about this when we're talking about something so beautiful but it's it's something

01:07we have to talk about having to do with the country because it's very important so they came in by the

01:12millions uh illegally into our country they just flowed in through an open border policy that was insane

01:18and what we've done is we've offered you know the numbers but we've because we're taking them out by

01:24the thousands we're being obstructed it's very unfair what's happening because the court system is being

01:30it's very unfair we have to get them out fast these are bad people these are people that are killing and

01:35they've already killed many people in this country illegal immigrants that came in illegally through an open

01:42border policy which is insane we talk about common sense that's not common sense and they came in from the

01:48congo all over all over africa all over asia all over south america parts of europe they float in and

01:55just walked right into our country we had no idea who they were 21 million at least that's probably a low

02:00number you know you hear lower numbers than that it's not that's a low number but many are really serious

02:07criminals and terrorists and people from jails they emptied out jails you know venezuela their crime is

02:12down 72 percent because they took all the criminals off the streets and the gangs and they dumped

02:18them into our country so we're getting them out it's a very difficult thing with the courts because

02:23the courts have all of a sudden out of nowhere they said uh maybe you have to have trials trials we're

02:30going to have five million trials doesn't work doesn't work you wouldn't have a country left but

02:37hopefully the supreme court will save it but what they've done is a very very serious thing you know

02:42past presidents took out hundreds of thousands of people when needed you look at eisenhower you look

02:48at many of them and they took people out and they didn't go through any of this but what we thought

02:54we'd do is a self-deport where we're going to pay each one a certain amount of money and we're going to

03:00get them a beautiful flight back to where they came from and they have a period of time and if they make

03:06it we're going to work with them so that maybe someday with a little work they can come back in

03:11if they're good people if they're the kind of people that we want in our company industrious people

03:15that could love our country and if they're not they won't but it will give them a path to becoming you

03:22know to coming back into the country if they miss that limit they're going to be taken out of our country

03:29and they never have they have never they will never get a path to come back in and it'll be a much

03:35tougher process and it's called self-deportation and by doing that you know you're talking about

03:42so many millions of people by doing that we have by the way we've taken out thousands of of uh terrorists

03:50uh drug lords what we've done is amazing and as you're tom homan and christine norm have done an

03:57incredible job they really have done an incredible job but it's a it's a hard job so we're going to

04:03have a self-deportation where they deport themselves out of our country and we'll work with them and we're

04:11going to try and if they if we think they're good they have you know the people we want in our country

04:17they're going to come back into our country we'll give them a little easier route but if they don't

04:22work and if we take them out after the date then uh they're never coming back and that's the least

04:28of the problems that they're going to have yeah please

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