Trump qualifies pledge to seek sweeping deportations

President-elect Donald Trump says his administration will seek to promptly deport up to 3 million immigrants with criminal records’ who are in the U.S. illegally but will defer the far wider exclusions he called for during the campaign until after the border is secure.’’

Trump’s comments, made in an interview recorded for CBS’s “60 Minutes,” highlight one of the challenges he faces in reconciling the rhetoric that propelled him to victory with how he is prepared to govern.

Newt Gingrich, who was House speaker in the 1990s, said on CBS’s Face the Nation’’ that the deportation of immigrants in the country illegally who have criminal pasts would be the new administration’s priority.