Trump open to detaining immigrants in camps in deportation push

• But the details of how Trump will implement his sweeping immigration plans — and how the country will shoulder the economic burden and repercussions — remain murky.
• Trump in the TIME interview suggested deporting 21 million people, which would likely require an increase in detention centers to hold people suspected of being in the U.S. without authorization before they're deported.
• Americans are split on the idea of setting up encampments for undocumented immigrants, per an October survey.

Driving the news: Asked by TIME whether he would need to build more detention facilities to hold detained migrants, Trump said there "might be" more.

• "Whatever it takes to get them out. I don't care. Honestly, whatever it takes to get them out," he said.
• The president-elect continued: "If it needs new camps, but I hope we're not going to need too many because I want to get them out, and I don't want them sitting in camp for the next 20 years."
• Trump emphasized he'd act "absolutely within the confines of the law."

If receiving countries don't "take them back," Trump said, he'd employ one of his favorite punishments: He would "tariff those countries very substantially."

• He seemed to reject economists' view that deporting millions of migrant agricultural workers could trigger a spike in the price of goods, saying, "No, because we're going to let people in, but we have to let them in legally. We don't want people to come in from jails."

Zoom out: Trump said would prefer to deport families together rather than separate children from their parents, echoing a statement he made during his "Meet the Press" interview aired Sunday.

• Speaking to NBC's Kristen Welker, Trump suggested he'd boot families together, even if the children were in the country legally.

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