Photo credit: BBC
US President Donald Trump said on Monday that his administration would not offer amnesty to undocumented immigrants but acknowledged that some had become productive members of society.
AA reports that Trump told reporters at the White House, “We have a very strong deportation policy. There’s no amnesty, no, no, anything. We keep that, but we focus on the worst of the worst.”
He insisted that his deportation policy remained unchanged.
His remarks came in response to a question about his recent acknowledgement in an interview that his administration’s deportation efforts may have gone too far and his subsequent appointment of Stephen Miller, a chief architect of his immigration crackdown, as White House chief of staff.
Trump said authorities would continue prioritizing the removal of migrants convicted of serious crimes, particularly murderers and drug traffickers.
‘We’ve gotten most of them. We want to get the worst, and then we’ll see what happens,” he said.
