At rallies and debates over the last year, Donald Trump has repeatedly vowed to round up and deport the estimated 11 million people in the country illegally, sometimes saying he would eject them all in two years. Over the last four days, however, the GOP presidential nominee and his top aides have issued repeated contradictory signals as to whether Trump is backing off that core campaign pledge. Aides have not said if Trump’s plan is under review because it appears politically unpalatable with moderate Republicans, or because forced deportations of millions of people would be prohibitively expensive and probably logistically impossible. For now, the campaign has yet to provide specifics on how mass removals would be carried out, who would be targeted, and how much it would cost. Immigration and Customs Enforcement deported 235,413 people last year, down from a record high of 409,849 in 2012, according to ICE records. Read more http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-pol-trump-deport-20160822-snap-story.html
