Donald Trump Considers Detention Camps For Immigrants: 'Whatever it Takes'

By Tom Norton

Fact Check Reporter

Donald Trump's interview with Time, accompanying the magazine naming him its 2024 Person of the Year, was replete with a wide selection of falsehoods and misleading claims from the president-elect.

The interview included significant admissions, including toning down claims that he could make groceries cheaper, playing down rhetoric against the transgender community, and hailing parts of the Project 2025 policy agenda as "very conservative and very good."

The incoming president also used the interview to double down on mistruths about immigration, his record, and his mandate from the 2024 election. Newsweek has assessed some of the key claims and reached out to his media representatives via email for comment.

"The country was angry because of immigration, because of the people, you know, millions and millions of people. I was saying it could be 21 million people. They were saying a much lesser number, but it wasn't a much lesser number. But even if it was, it was irrelevant."

Trump told Time that the Democrats had not effectively understood public feeling about immigration, claiming that 21 million undocumented migrants had entered the country.

This has been repeatedly debunked by Newsweek.

The president-elect said this recently during his Fox Nation "Patriot of the Year" speech. As of September 2024, U.S. Customs and Border Protection recorded 8.2 million...

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