Sessions: Immigrants must ‘self-deport’ under Trump plan

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Sen. Jeff Sessions defended Donald Trump Wednesday against suggestions that he supports a massive deportation force, arguing instead that the Republican nominee expects undocumented immigrants to “self-deport.”

“You go to your home country and then you apply and then you come back in with legal status,” Sessions said Wednesday on CNN. “You basically have a self-deport.”

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