Ledger · 2016 campaign · № 15
Deport all 11 million undocumented immigrants
Never delivered“[paraphrase] They have to go. We're going to have a deportation force and everyone who is here illegally will leave.”
- Promised
- , NBC "Meet the Press" interview
- Re-promised
- 60 times with a fresh deadline
- Topic
- Immigration
- Era
- 2016 campaign
What happened
No mass deportation force was created and the undocumented population remained roughly 10.5 to 11 million. ICE removals over the term ran below the peak years of the Obama administration. PolitiFact rated the promise broken in July 2020.