Trump suggests deporting families with mixed immigration status

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

50% : Flashback: Trump's past family separation policy at the border, which saw nearly 4,000 kids being taken from their parents, caused uproar and sparked humanitarian concerns during his first term.Zoom out: In the same interview, however, Trump seemed open to allowing Dreamers, those who were brought to the U.S. as children and granted protections under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, to stay in the country.
42% : The big picture: An estimated 4.7 million households in the U.S. are defined as "mixed-status," meaning they house at least one undocumented resident and at least one citizen or legal noncitizen resident, per the Center for Migration Studies.Driving the news: "I don't want to be breaking up families, so the only way you don't break up the family is you keep them together and you have to send them all back," Trump said in an interview aired Sunday on NBC's "Meet the Press" with Kristen Welker.
28% : The bottom line: Trump has sworn to conduct mass deportations starting day one of his presidency -- plans immigration experts say could cost hundreds of billions of dollars and have triggered humanitarian worries.
22% : Yes, but: Trump then took a hardline stance on birthright citizenship, reaffirming his plan to nix it day one.

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