Trump eyes 'next job' as he issues chilling warning to 'criminals' born in the US

Donald Trump has suggested his "next job" will be to deport US-born criminals. The US President named his next target on the same day he toured a new migrant detention centre that he hopes to make symbolic of his border crackdown. The US President told reporters that "criminals are not new to our country, they're old to our country", while answering questions outside the "Alligator Alcatraz" detention centre in Florida's Everglades on Tuesday.

"Many [criminals] were born in our country," he said. "I think we ought to get them the hell out of here too, you want to know the truth, so maybe that'll be the next job that we'll work on together." Trump signed an executive order aimed at ending birthright citizenship on his first day back in the White House, a step towards scrapping automatic citizenship for anyone born in America.

The president's border battle has so far focused primarily on detaining and deporting migrants, with a self-declared aim of "reversing the Biden migration invasion".

The so-called "Alligator Alcatraz", which is located on a remote airstrip in the southern Florida wetlands, earned its nickname from the large population of alligators living in the Everglades, through which fleeing migrants would have to navigate a path. Trump said the centre would hold the "most menacing migrants, some of the most vicious people on the planet".

His visit to the new facility comes after the Supreme Court ruled to curb the use of lower-court rulings to block his birthright citizenship plan last week, a move Trump declared as a "giant win".

"It wasn't meant for people trying to scam the system and come into the country on a vacation," he told reporters in the Oval Office.

"It was meant for the babies of slaves. Hundreds of thousands of people are pouring into our country under birthright citizenship."

Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill", packed with tax breaks and spending cuts, was also pushed through the US senate in a knife-edge vote on Monday.

Alongside $4.5 trillion (£3.2 trillion) in tax cuts and $1.2 trillion (£870 billion) in cuts to services such as Medicaid, the bill would inject $350 billion (£254 billion) into border and national security, including for deportations.