President-elect Donald Trump’s recent promise to deport entire families of undocumented immigrants — including those who are American citizens — harkens back to “repatriation” programs of the 1930s, which were used to attempt to pressure Mexican Americans, including Mexican citizens, into leaving the country voluntarily.
On NBC’s “Meet the Press” with Kristen Welker on Sunday, Trump reiterated his plans to attempt to end birthright citizenship and expanded on some of the details around his mass deportation program, including what the incoming administration has planned for the roughly 4 million families of mixed immigration status in the United States.
