A day after unveiling a sweeping immigration policy that didn't address illegal immigration, President Donald Trump vented on Twitter and warned people sneaking into the U.S. to pack their bags for deportation.
'All people that are illegally coming into the United States now will be removed from our Country at a later date as we build up our removal forces and as the laws are changed,' he vowed. 'Please do not make yourselves too comfortable, you will be leaving soon!'
Trump promised in November 2015 amid a contentious Republican primary fight that he would round up and evict illegal immigrants as president.
'You're going to have a deportation force, and you're going to do it humanely,' he said then.
President Donald Trump said Friday on Twitter that he plans to round up immigrants who aren't qualified to stay after they are released into the U.S. pending court hearings
People who cross the border into the U.S. and are apprehended and released, Trump tweeted, are being 'registered' so immigration authorities can find them and eject them from the country at a later date
About 11.3 million people are living illegally in the U.S., according to the Migration Policy Institute. The organization says about two-thirds of them have jobs and roughly 900,000 are students enrolled in schools.
Many of those millions came via legitimate programs but overstayed their visas. The Roughly two-thirds of illegal immigrants in the U.S. have been here for more than 10 years, according to the Pew Research Center.
But a sea of humanity continues to cross into the country from Mexico.
That latter group was Trump's Twitter target on Friday.
'Border Patrol is apprehending record numbers of people at the Southern Border,' he tweeted Friday. 'The bad “hombres,” of which there are many, are being detained & will be sent home.'
'Those which we release under the ridiculous Catch &
