President-elect Donald Trump appeared on CBS's "60 Minutes" Sunday, for an interview during which he answered questions about many of the policies for which he advocated on the campaign trail.
One of the foremost questions had to do with his position on illegal immigrants in the country.
In the interview with journalist Lesley Stahl, Trump tackled the questions of immigration policy and building a wall.
He told Stahl he would aim to deport illegal immigrants he characterized as dangerous and ones with criminal records.
"What we are going to do is get the people that are criminal and have criminal records -- gang members, drug dealers -- we have a lot of these people -- probably 2 million. It could be even 3 million. We are getting them out of our country or we are going to incarcerate," Trump told Stahl. "We're getting them out of our country. They're here illegally."
He called immigrants who are not criminals or dangerous "terrific people."
"After the border is secured and after everything gets normalized, we're going to make a determination on the people that you're talking about, who are terrific people -- they're terrific people -- but we are going to make a determination at that," Trump said. "But before we make that determination, Lesley, it's very important -- we are going to secure our border."
Trump previously said that if elected, he would deport all of the estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants in the country. According to the New York Times, President Obama has deported more than two million undocumented immigrants during his time in office.
On the issue of the wall, Stahl pointed out that some Republicans have talked about a fence.
"For certain areas, I would (accept a fence). (In) certain areas, a wall is more appropriate," Trump said. "I'm very good at this. It's called construction ... There could be some fencing."
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