Trump: Immigrants will have to leave the country to become citizens

Donald Trump said Monday that immigrants will have to leave the country before they can become U.S. citizens under his immigration plan.  

“To become a citizen, you’re going to have to go out and come back in. … This isn’t touchback,” he said during interview with Fox News from his plane between campaign events.

Trump, who was campaigning in Ohio on Labor Day, elaborated by saying that immigrants will have to go out, get in line  and go through the process to become citizens.

Last week, Trump laid out a 10-point plan in a speech in Phoenix. But many still question if Trump supports the deportation of the 11 million undocumented immigrants in the country, as he said earlier in the campaign. 

Indiana Gov. Mike Pence (R), Trump’s running mate, in an interview Sunday dodged a question about the issue. 

Instead, Pence said Trump, the Republican presidential nominee, is focused on the “more than 300 million people who are citizens of this country and are here legally in this country and driving policies in immigration that will work for them, work for the future of our nation.”