“I have never liked the media term ‘mass deportation’” fits perfectly with his original statement: “I would not call it mass deportations.” The title claimed he said there would be no mass deportations, but Trump had only said that he would not “call” what’s in his immigration plan “mass deportations.” Trump doesn’t care to let the media define what to call his policy plans (especially when the presstitutes are hoping to conjure up images of cattle cars full of people heading to Auschwitz).
We probably shouldn’t fret too much about the details of how he wants to get them to leave. Even in early November when talking about his “deporation force” I watched Trump tell an interviewer on TV that once the immigration laws were enforced, many illegals would go home on their own accord (which is what happened under the so-called Operation Wetback after the initial deportations started rolling). What he seems most concerned with (and has seemed so since his 2011 book, Time to Get Tough) is seeking out convicted illegal criminals to deport.
After these two points, there won’t even be that many left to deport, so I suspect that for the rest he (like Ted Cruz supported at the time he criticized Trump’s “deportation force”) wants to deport those who come to the attention of the authorities, rather than trying to do mass round-ups. These sort of individual deportations of the remaining illegals when they become known would be less controversial than attempting to do actual mass sweeps and round-ups, because that would simply be (as he tweeted) “enforc[ing] the laws of the land” as they stand already and thus harder to argue against.
Well said. People need to stop clutching their pearls and gasping in horror at every twist and turn of the MSM, which are done on purpose to sway people who aren’t thinking clearly.