--- title: Donald Trump Calls for Deporting Undocumented Immigrants description: Donald Trump gave his most specific outline of immigration policy to date in an interview Wednesday. canonical: https://time.com/3977763/donald-trump-immigration-policy/ author: Tessa Berenson article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-07-29T20:56:09.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-19T07:47:58.166Z article:section: Politics og:title: Donald Trump: Deport Undocumented, Let Some Back In og:description: "We're going to move 'em back in if they're really good people." og:url: https://time.com/3977763/donald-trump-immigration-policy/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt49cadea349315023/69885c99cd1bba6f256fc751/donald-trump-mexico.jpg?branch=production&width=594&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 594 og:image:height: 334 og:image:alt: Republican Presidential candidate and business mogul Donald Trump talks to the media after exiting his plane during his trip to the border on July 23, 2015 in Laredo, Texas. og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Donald Trump: Deport Undocumented, Let Some Back In twitter:description: "We're going to move 'em back in if they're really good people." twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt49cadea349315023/69885c99cd1bba6f256fc751/donald-trump-mexico.jpg?branch=production&width=594&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Donald Trump Calls for Deporting Undocumented Immigrants, Letting Some Back In > Sponsored content. 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Donald Trump's Most Ridiculous Quotes_  by [Tessa Berenson](https://time.com/author/tessa-berenson/)  ## Tessa Berenson Jul 29, 2015 8:56 PM UTC  Republican Presidential candidate and business mogul Donald Trump talks to the media after exiting his plane during his trip to the border on July 23, 2015 in Laredo, Texas. Republican Presidential candidate and business mogul Donald Trump talks to the media after exiting his plane during his trip to the border on July 23, 2015 in Laredo, Texas. Matthew Busch—Getty Images  by [Tessa Berenson](https://time.com/author/tessa-berenson/)  ## Tessa Berenson Jul 29, 2015 8:56 PM UTC Donald Trump gave his most specific outline of immigration policy to date in an interview Wednesday. [In an interview with CNN](http://www.cnn.com/2015/07/29/politics/donald-trump-immigration-plan-healthcare-flip-flop/index.html), the businessman and Republican presidential candidate said he would deport all of the approximately 11 million illegal immigrants in the country, although he didn’t clearly explain how he would find them. But then Trump, who controversially said many Mexican illegal immigrants are “rapists” during his campaign launch, said he would provide a way for “the good ones” to reenter the country legally, although he does not support a path to full citizenship. “Legal status,” he said. “We got to move ’em out, we’re going to move ’em back in if they’re really good people.” Trump was vague about whether he would allow undocumented immigrants who came to the country as children to stay: “It’s a tough situation,” he said, and, “it depends.” **Read Next:** [_Donald Trump Is Not as Aggressive on Immigration As He Sounds_](http://time.com/3973123/donald-trump-immigration/) ## Transcript Rosie O'Donnell's disgusting, I mean both inside and out. You take a look at her, she's a slob. She talks like a truck driver. So he could have been born in Kenya and gone over to the United States. And everybody wants to be a US citizen. And his grandparents put an ad in saying he was born in the United States. He didn't kill Bin Laden. He gets so much credit for that. Ok excuse me. He had the guts to make that decision. And the genius. Excuse me. Guts. First of all Vince, your grapefruits are no match for my Trump Towers. They're bringing drugs They're bringing crime, they're rapist, and some I assume are good people, and I love the Mexican people. I've had thousands of Mexicans working for me. I sell apartments for millions of dollars to people from Mexico. They love me, they love me. [ CROSSTALK ]. He's a war hero cuz he was captured. I like people that weren't captured, okay? I hate to tell you this. And I see your Senator. What a stiff? What a Stiff? Lindsay Graham. I'm not using the lobbyists, I'm not using donors. I don't care. I'm really rich. 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