Donald Trump has created great confusion with his talk on immigration. | Getty Trump: Deporting undocumented criminals 'won't go that quickly'

Donald Trump on Thursday warned that his plan to round up and kick out undocumented immigrants who have committed other crimes "won’t go that quickly."

The comment — from an interview on Fox News’ “O’Reilly Factor” — is another acknowledgment that his harsh rhetoric on immigration will likely collide with complicated realities when it comes to the 11 million undocumented immigrants in the United States.


“We’re going to get rid of all the bad players that are here. The gang members, the gang leaders, the drug dealers, all of the cartel people we’re going to get them out of our country because they are causing tremendous damage and crime and other things and getting the drugs spread all over the place,” the Republican nominee said during the interview. “They’ll be gone. After that takes place, which will be a process and it won’t go that quickly, but it’s going to go as quickly as any human being can do it.”

Trump also said his administration would then take on a deliberative process on what to do next, especially because there’s a risk that undocumented immigrants could come back into the country illegally.

“After that takes place, we are going to sit back, we’re going to assess the situation, we’re going to see where we are because we will have people in the country that have come in the country illegally,” Trump said. “We’re going to sit back, we’re going to assess the situation, we’re going to make a decision at that time. I want to see, before we do anything further, I want to see how it shapes up when we have strong, impenetrable borders. I think we are getting really tremendous reviews on the plan.”

Trump has created great confusion with his talk on immigration, after seeming to moderatd his talk on his signature campaign issue in recent weeks.

But on Wednesday night, he revived his harsh rhetoric in a fiery speech that was cheered by immigration hard liners.

Trump then offered up another eyebrow-raising comment on Thursday morning, telling conservative talk radio host Laura Ingraham about his latest immigration plan: “I think you’re going to see there’s really quite a bit of softening.”