Trump: I will keep promise to deport millions of migrants

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The tycoon appears to have backtracked a little on a wall between the US and Mexico, saying some of it could be fencing.

President-elect Donald Trump says he will keep his promise to deport up to three million illegal migrants from the US.

He said: "What we are going to do is get the people that are criminal and have criminal records, gang members, drug dealers, probably two million, it could be even three million.

"We are getting them out of our country or we are going to incarcerate." 

Regarding the wall he pledged to build between the US and Mexico during the election campaign, Mr Trump said it might not be made entirely of bricks and mortar.

"There could be some fencing," he told CBS' 60 Minutes programme.  

He added: "But (for) certain areas, a wall is more appropriate. I'm very good at this - it's called construction." 

But the Republican leader of the House of Representatives, Paul Ryan, appeared to be taking a different tack to the President-elect, telling CNN's State of the Union programme: "We are not planning on erecting a deportation force. 

"I think we should put people's minds at ease." 

Meanwhile, the President-elect has chosen the chairman of the Republican National Committee, Reince Priebus, to be his White House chief of staff.   

Mr Trump's campaign chairman, Stephen Bannon, will be his chief strategist.

Mr Trump said he would "think about it" when asked whether he would appoint a special prosecutor to look at Hillary Clinton's email use. 

In another development, former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani has suggested Mr Trump put his businesses in a blind trust.  

"He should basically take himself out of it, and just be a passive participant in the sense that he has no decision-making, no involvement," Mr Giuliani said, adding that it would be "for the good of the country".