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No, the Mike Pence touchback scan was far different than that. Aside from the off the cuff remark, Trump has never provided any details on how they would return except they would come back legally. Since the overwhelming majority of the lawbreakers have committed multiple crimes in addition to entering illegally, a misdemeanor the first time and a felony thereafter, it is doubtful many could return unless you change the laws.

Here is a 2006 article by Phyllis Schafly on the Pence touchback scam: Whatever Happened to Mike Pence?

Despite the consistent failure of all guest worker plans (e.g., France), Rep. Mike Pence (R-IN) is peddling a new plan to import foreign workers who really are guests and really do go home. Pence has turned his back on the 88 percent of House Republicans who voted that we must achieve border security first, because we'll be cheated on border security if Congress passes a "comprehensive" bill.

The Pence plan tries to avoid the amnesty label by requiring illegal aliens now in the U.S. to make what he calls "a quick trip across the border" to Mexico or Canada to pick up a new W visa. A foreigner could get a W visa only if a U.S. employer certifies that a job awaits him.

Pence's plan calls for setting up privately financed offices outside the U.S., with the cutesy title Ellis Island Centers, to hand out the new W visas, which he claims would be more efficient than government bureaucracy. Business would, indeed, be more efficient than government in importing more foreign workers.

Having private employment agencies distribute the W visas would put the fox in charge of the chicken coop. Private industry has a built-in incentive to import as much cheap labor as possible.