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southern border, which had become known as the truly en
named "Operation Werback" But even with that wil
the program was successful. It was a joint effort between
INS and the Mexican government. Special immigration tean
were created to quickly process and deport illegal immigrants
One of the reasons it worked is that people who were caught
were given to Mexican government agents, who moved the
into central Mexico, where they could find jobs. In the first
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of the border patrol but haven't substantially increased the
number of ICE officers the officers who enforce immigration
laws.
year, more than one million people were sent back
The career politicians love to talk about having a nation-
wide "E-verify system so potential employers will be able to
What we need is the comprehensive program I have outlined
that will enable us to get our immigration system under control
It starts with enforcing the existing laws. A country either has
laws or it doesn't. But having laws that we don't enforce makes
determine who is here legally and eligible for work and who
isn't. Certainly, this will help protect the jobs for unemployed
Americans. But let's not kid ourselves. Our leaders" must lead
on this, and engage with foreign governments to stop illegal
immigration, and not simply impose something on our busi-
nesses and think that some Internet verification system alone
no sense to
And in addition to keeping bad people from
coming in, we've got to get the criminals out. When you break
will solve the problem.
We have to cut off federal grants to sanctuary cities--those
places that refuse to cooperate with federal law enforcement
our laws you get thrown out. It's simple. Why should we absorb
the expense of keeping criminals in prisons? Let their countries
of origin deal with the problems they sent us. If they refuse to
take them back, we can stop issuing visas to those countries,
preventing their citizens from legally visiting the United States.
I also would triple the number of immigration officers we
currently employ until the wall is built. We are asking these
people to do a job that would be difficult even if they had all
the support they need, and they don't. Think of it this way:
Currently there are about 5,000 officers attempting to enforce
the existing immigration laws against the more than 11 million
illegal aliens. Compare that to the 10,000 members of the Los
Angeles Police Department or the 35,000 officers in the New
York Police Department. Since 9/11 we have tripled the size
and actually abet criminal behavior --we have to end them. I
repeat, we either are a nation of laws or we're not:
We also need to do what is necessary to enforce our visa
regulations. People get a visa and come here legally, and when
that visa expires, many stay here illegally. If they get caught,
nothing happens to them. That's got to change. We need to
have real penalties for people who overstay their visas. I am
sick and tired of hearing politicians who are all talk and no
action. President Obama and his people are great at sending
letters and press releases, but they never seem to have any con-
sequences for foreign governments that don't listen to them.
Most important is ending or curtailing so-called birthright
citizenship, or anchor babies. American citizenship is an ex-
traordinary gift. Its value over a lifetime can't be measured. So
the fact that the Fourteenth Amendment has been interpreted
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call is an American citizen-and that baby can be used as
to mean that any child born in the United States autom
anchor to keep its family here is the single biggest magnet
The Fourteenth Amendment was never intended to be used
which was ratified in 1868, following the Civil War, was to
that way. The original purpose of the Fourteenth Amendmens
guarantee all rights granted to citizens in the Constitution to
freed slaves. No serious historian could possibly interpret any
the birthright citizenship was intended for anyone other than
of the supporting language in the Congressional Record that
was never intended
and we will win in
in Congress
and I will find a legal way of stopping this policy A lot of really
smart people and lawyers believe the Fourteenth Amendment
to create a whole new path to citizenship,
We're going to test it every possible way. We will win in court
I don't want to stop legal immigration to this country. In
fact, I would like to reform and increase immigration in some
important ways. Our current immigration laws are upside
down—they make it tough on the people we need to have here,
and easy for the people we don't want here.
This country is a magnet for many of the smartest,
hardest-working people born in other countries, yet we make
it difficult for these bright people who follow the laws to settle
the freed slaves
It wasnt until 1998
the Supreme Court ruled that, with
Amendment granted citizenship to the children of those law.
certain specific exceptions, the provisions of the Fourteenth
fully here who gave birth on American soil. By a huge margin,
Americans want to change that policy. Even Democrat Harry
Reid admitted that "no sane country" would grant citizen-
ship to the children of illegal immigrants. It's estimated that
here.
about 300,000 of these children are born here annually. That's
300,000 children who are entitled to all the rights and privileges
granted to American citizens because their mothers entered
this country illegally by walking over the border for a day in
the south or by flying in from another country under fraudulent
documentation. There are businesses that specialize in mak-
ing this happen! They call it "birth tourism"--pregnant foreign
women travel to this country just so that they can give birth here
to babies who then automatically become American citizens.
Citizenship is not a gift we can afford to keep giving away.
It's amazing that people who come here to earn a master's
degree and who demonstrate wonderful skills are forced to
wait on a very long line when they want to stay and contribute
to this country. In fact, for a lot of them, their number may
never be called. Bright young kids come here from all over the
world to study in our colleges. They get the best education in
the world. They graduate with honors and we hand them a di-
ploma and a plane ticket. Their mistake is that they are honest
people--they follow the law. They want to stay here, but we
send them back to their countries, and ultimately they use the
knowledge they gained here to compete against us.
If you're a criminal, though, or an unskilled worker, or
someone escaping criminal charges in another country, you
are able to sneak into our country and in many cases get some
benefits and never leave. These "enforcement" policies and this
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band approach to immigration have to change,
migration policy needs to work to make America great
My immigration policy is actually pretty simple. We
who can contribute to this country to come here legally when
to make changes to our laws to make it easier for those people
get hereillally. I want good people to come here from all the
making it impossible for criminal elements and other people
the process, we can reward achievement and excellence, bu
the world, but I want them to do so legally, We can expedia
we have to respect the legal process. And those people who
never enjoy the benefits of being a resident-or citizen--of this
take advantage of the system and come here illegally should
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nation. So I am against any path to
citizenship for undocu.
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mented workers or anyone else who is in this country illegally
They should-and need to go home and get in line.
And you know who agrees with me? The Mexicans, the
Chinese, and all the people from other countries who want to
be here legally and can't get a visa or fit into a quota, yet see
millions of people living here illegally. They don't understand
how we can undermine our own interests.
If you have laws that you don't enforce, then you don't have
laws. This leads to lawlessness.
We can be generous and do all of this humanely. But the
security and prosperity of American citizens have to come first.
Our country, our people, and our laws have to be our top
priority
THE CAREER DIPLOMATS WHO got us into many foreign policy
messes say I have no experience in foreign policy. They think
that successful diplomacy requires years of experience and an
understanding of all the nuances that have to be carefully con-
sidered before reaching a conclusion. Only then do these pin-
striped bureaucrats consider taking action.
Look at the state of the world right now. It's a terrible mess,
and that's putting it kindly.
There has never been a more dangerous time. The so-called
insiders within the Washington ruling class are the people who
got us into this trouble. So why should we continue to pay at-
tention to them?
Some of these so-called "experts” are trying to scare people by
saying that my approach would make the world more dangerous.
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WHEN I ANNOUNCED MY candidacy I spoke for almost an hour,
covering just about every challenge that we're facing. But the
subject that got the most attention was my focus on our im-
migration policy. Or, in fact, our lack of any coherent immi-
gration policy. I was pretty tough on illegal immigrants, and
a lot of people didn't like that. I said that many countries are
dumping their worst people on our border and that it has to
stop. A country that doesn't control its borders can't survive-
especially with what's going on right now.
What I said only makes common sense. I speak to border
patrol guards, and they tell us who we're letting across our bor-
der. The countries south of us are not sending us their best
people. The bad people are coming from places other than
just Mexico. They're coming from all over Central and South
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America and they're coming probably-probably from the
Syrian refugees in the door will certainly bring a lot of pro
Middle East. Let me add now. Allowing tens of thousands
lems. But we want know how bad, because we have no
rection and we have no competence. We don't know what
happening. It's got to stop, and it's got to stop quickly.
Later in my announcement I added, "I would build a great
wall, and nobody builds walls better than me, believe me,
and I'll build it very inexpensively. I will build a great wall
on our southern border. And I will have Mexico pay for that
wall. Mark my words." I spoke for quite a while that day. I
covered just about all the problems our country is facing, But
what did the media report about that speech? "Trump is anti-
immigration." "Trump calls immigrants rapists." "Trump is
starting a war with Mexico." You want to know why we aren't
solving our problems? Why nothing changes? It's because we're
The flow of illegal immigrants into this country is one of
the most serious problems we face. It's killing us. But until 1
not facing the problems and taking action.
Let me state this clearly. I am not against immigration
My mother emigrated to this country from Scotland in 1915
and married my father, whose parents had come here from
Germany
in 1885. My parents were two of the best people who
ever lived, and it was millions of people like them who made
this country so wonderful and so successful
I love immigration,
Immigrants come to this country, they want to work hard,
be successful, raise their kids, and share in the American
dream. It's a beautiful story. I can close my eyes and just imag-
ine what my relatives must have been thinking when they
sailed past the Statue of Liberty into New York and their new
lives. And if they could only see the results of their risk and
sacrifice! How can anyone not appreciate the courage it took
for these people to leave their families and come here?
What I don't love is the concept of illegal immigration.
It's not fair to everyone else, including people who have
been waiting on line for years to come into our country legally.
And the flood of illegal immigrants coming across our borders
has become a dangerous problem. We don't protect our bor-
ders. We don't know who's here, but I bet wherever they came
from knows that they are gone. Yet those governments do noth-
ing to help us. The estimate is that there are 11 million illegal
immigrants in America, but the fact is that nobody knows how
many there really are. We have no way of tracking them.
What we do know is that some of those immigrants are a
source of real crime. In 2011, the Government Accountability
Office reported that there were three million arrests that could
be attributed to the incarcerated alien population, including
made that point during my speech, nobody was
talking about
it honestly. And instead of saying, "Trump's right and we'd bet-
ter do something to stop illegal immigration right now or we're
going to lose our country," they said, "Oh, what a terrible thing
Trump said about the nice people who live south of our bor:
ders, I hope they don't get upset at us because of that. Maybe
he'll apologize." I understand why that happened. It's a lot eas-
jer to criticize me for being blunt than it is to actually admit
this immigration situation is a dangerous problem and then to
find a way to deal with it.
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