Donald Trump vows to build Mexico wall and deport up to 3 million illegal immigrants

Donald Trump has insisted he will build a wall on the Mexican border and has vowed to deport or jail two to three million illegal immigrants.

The billionaire made the remarks on CBS show 60 Minutes on Sunday, his first national television appearance since last week’s shock election win.

He told the programme: “What we are going to do is get the people that are criminal and have criminal records, gang members, drug dealers, where a lot of these people, probably two million, it could be even three million, we are getting them out of our country or we are going to incarcerate.

“After the border is secure and after everything gets normalised, we’re going to make a determination on the people that they’re talking about who are terrific people, they’re terrific people but we are gonna make a determination at that.

“But before we make that determination, it’s very important, we are going to secure our border.”

Responding to stories in the American media that his long-heralded wall with Mexico would turn out to be a far cheaper and smaller fence, he told the show: “There could be some fencing.”

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