ABC’s Vega to Spicer: Is ‘Mass Deportation’ Trump’s Goal with Immigration Orders?

‘We have an obligation to make sure that the people who are ... our country are here legally’

EXCERPT:

VEGA: "Is one of the goals here mass deportation?"
SPICER: "No."
VEGA: "Not at all?"
SPICER: "This isn’t — look, I -- I think what we have to get back to is understanding a couple things. There’s a law in place that says, you know, if you’re in this country illegally, that we have an obligation to make sure that the people who are in this -- in our country are here legally. What the order sets out today is insures that the million or so people that have been adjudicated already, that there’s a — that ICE prioritizes, creates a system of prioritization and make sure that -- that we walk through that system in a way that protects this country." 

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