Good News for Mexican Immigrants, GOP Leaders to Block Donald Trump's Immigration Policies Tony Park - News Everyday
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Paul Ryan says Trump's mass-deportation plan wouldn't pass the House (CBS)

The campaign promise of U.S. president-elect Donald Trump to deport illegal immigrants once he takes office might face an opposition from Republican leaders. Trump's immigration plan is to send back two to three million unauthorized immigrants who have been convicted of crimes. He based his data on a 2012 estimate that there were 1.9 million "removable criminal aliens."

According to the website Breitbart, the attitudes of GOP leaders will be tested once Trump sends immigration reform legislation to the U.S. Congress in January. Republican leaders including U.S. Senator Paul Rand and former Wyoming Senator Alan K. Simpson had supported open borders and amnesty for illegal aliens.

When Donald Trump announced his candidacy on June 16, 2015, he said that he would build a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border. Trump's wall plan wants to cover the entire 1,900-mile border. A third of that border is already protected by series of fences, concrete slabs, and other structures.

Immigration expert Steve Legomsky of Washington University School of Law believes that Congress will not fund the kind of border wall Donald Trump promised. He told Reuters that Trump and congressional leaders might end up agreeing on a modest extension of the existing border fence.

Fox News reported that Mexicans are fretting over coming immigration changes under the presidency of Donald Trump. People from both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border are very worried once Trump deports up to two million illegal immigrants.

House Speaker Paul Ryan told CBS anchor Scott Pelley that he will not fund a comprehensive repatriation program aimed by the administration of Donald Trump. "The Speaker of the House told us that when it comes to deporting 11 million immigrants, it's not going to happen, and he won't fund it," said Pelley.

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Related: Universities in U.S. Exploring 'Sanctuary' Status for Immigrants (El Universal)

Related: Mexicans Fret Over Coming Immigration Changes Under Trump Administration (FoxNews.com)

Related: With Trump Threatening NAFTA, Canada Opens Its Doors to Mexicans (Bloomberg)

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