Trump vows to show 'no amnesty' or undocumented migrants
US Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has vowed to show "no amnesty" for undocumented migrants living in the country and promised to build an "impenetrable" wall on the US-Mexican border if elected president
Trump repeated his harsh immigration rhetoric on Wednesday during a campaign rally in Phoenix, Arizona, hours after a meeting in Mexico City with Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto, who said his country will not pay for a border wall.
In addition to building the wall with Mexican funding, he said he would add 5,000 border patrol officers.
"This election is our last chance to secure the border, stop illegal immigration, and reform our laws to make your life better," Trump said. "This is it. We won't get another opportunity -- it will be too late."
He did not pledge to deport every undocumented immigrant living in the country as he previously had, but promised that immigrants living in the US illegally will be “subject to deportation.”
"For those here today illegally who are seeking legal status, they will have one route and only one route: to return home and apply for re-entry under the rules of the new legal immigration system."
The celebrity businessman promised to create a "deportation task force" that would be "focused on identifying and quickly removing the most dangerous criminal illegal aliens in America."
Trump also repeated his pledges to punish US corporations that move American jobs to Mexico and impose steep new tariffs on imports.
Approximately 11.3 million undocumented immigrants were living in the US in 2014 and undocumented immigrants from Mexico made up the largest share of this population, according to government data.
A poll released last week by the Pew Research Center found that the majority of Americans are opposed to Trump’s immigration proposals.
The poll found that 61 percent of those surveyed rejected one of Trump’s signature policies: building a wall along the US-Mexico border.
Trump’s characterizations of undocumented immigrants were also decisively rejected in the poll.
Trump’s campaign has been marked by controversy from the beginning, including disparaging remarks about women, Mexican immigrants and Muslims.
“When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending their best,” Trump said at his campaign kickoff speech in June 2015.
“They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists. And some, I assume, are good people. But I speak to border guards, and they tell us what we’re getting,” Trump said.
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