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UPDATED Donald Trump Immigration Speech: Full Text Transcript, Video of Policy Stances from Phoenix

Donald Trump addresses the crowd in Phoenix, highlights his stances on illegal immigration and clarifies what he means about creating a deportation force.

I will enforce all of our immigration laws.

The same goes for government benefits. The Center for Immigration Studies estimates that 62 percent of households headed by illegal immigrants used some form of cash or non-cash welfare programs, like food stamps or housing assistance. This directly violates the federal public charge law designed to protect the U.S. treasury.


Those who abuse our welfare system will be priorities for removal.


Number 10: We will reform legal immigration to serve the best interests of America and its workers


We've admitted 59 million immigrants to the United States between 1965 and 2015.


Many of these arrivals have greatly enriched our country. But we now have an obligation to them, and to their children, to control future immigration – as we have following previous immigration waves – to ensure assimilation, integration and upward mobility.


Within just a few years immigration as a share of national population is set to break all historical records.

The time has come for a new immigration commission to develop a new set of reforms to our legal immigration system in order to achieve the following goals:

To keep immigration levels, measured by population share, within historical norms


To select immigrants based on their likelihood of success in U.S. society, and their ability to be financially self-sufficient. We need a system that serves our needs – remember, it's America First.


To choose immigrants based on merit, skill and proficiency


And to establish new immigration controls to boost wages and to ensure that open jobs are offered to American workers first.

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