Trump’s immigration plan sparks debate over families & Dreamers

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00:00During his campaign, Trump pledged the largest deportation in American history.

00:05Sunday, he shed new insight into how that might work, including the potential removal

00:10of U.S. citizens whose family members are in the country illegally.

00:14I don't want to be breaking up families.

00:16So the only way you don't break up the family is you keep them together and you have to

00:19send them all back.

00:20Birthright citizenship is enshrined in the 14th Amendment.

00:23It grants citizenship to anyone born in the United States, even to those whose parents

00:28are in the country illegally.

00:30If somebody sets a foot, just a foot, one foot, you don't need two, on our land, congratulations,

00:35you are now a citizen of the United States of America.

00:38Yes, we're going to end that because it's ridiculous.

00:41Changing it would require ratification from three-fourths of the United States.

00:46Trump is pledging to eliminate it via executive action, something many constitutional scholars

00:51say he doesn't have the power to do.

00:53On the topic of DREAMers, illegal immigrants who were brought to the U.S. as children,

00:57the president-elect struck a softer tone, leaving the door open for a compromise.

01:02Republicans are very open to the DREAMers.

01:04They become successful.

01:05They have great jobs.

01:06In some cases, they have small businesses.

01:08I think we can work with the Democrats and work something out.

01:11The Trump transition team will have to figure out just how far these executive actions should

01:16go, with the expectation that they will all be challenged in court.

01:21At the White House, Lucas Tomlinson, Fox News.