What Trump Really Means When He Threatens To Deport Americans

In a Sunday interview with NBC News, President-elect Donald Trump repeated what is becoming one of the incoming administration’s most provocative talking points: When parents of US citizens face deportation, his administration will deport the whole family together.

“I don’t want to be breaking up families,” Trump said when asked how mass deportation would impact America’s roughly 4 million mixed-status families. “The only way you don’t break up the family is you keep them together and you...