Transcript - Speech: Donald Trump Holds a Town Hall-Style Event in Phoenix - August 31, 2016 | Factba.se

Donald Trump

00:00:00 - 00:00:55 (56 sec)

Oh, what a crowd. What a beautiful crowd. Thank you. Thank you. Wow, that's a lot of people Phoenix. That's a lot of people. [Audience chants "USA"] Thank you, Phoenix. I am so glad to be back in Arizona. A state that has a very, very special place in my heart. I love the people of Arizona and together, we are going to win the White House in November.

Donald Trump

00:00:55 - 00:01:32 (37 sec)

Now you know, this is where it all began for me, remember that massive crowd also? So I said, let's go and have some fun tonight. We're going to Arizona, OK? Thank you. This will be a little bit different. This won't be a rally speech per se. Instead, I'm going to deliver a detailed policy address on one of the greatest challenges facing our country today, illegal immigration.

Donald Trump

00:01:32 - 00:02:22 (50 sec)

I've just landed having returned from a very important and special meeting with the President of Mexico, a man I like and respect very much, and a man who truly loves his country, Mexico. And by the way, just like I am a man who loves my country the United States. We agree on the importance of ending the illegal flow of drugs, cash, guns, and people across our border.

Donald Trump

00:02:22 - 00:02:57 (35 sec)

And to put the cartels out of business. We also discussed the great contributions of Mexican-American citizens to our two countries. My love for the people of Mexico and the leadership and friendship that we have between Mexico and the United States. It was a thoughtful and substantive conversation and it will go on for a while.

Donald Trump

00:02:57 - 00:03:26 (29 sec)

And in the end, we're all going to win, both countries, we're all going to win. This is the first of what I expect, will be many, many conversations, and in a Trump administration, we're going to go about creating a new relationship between our two countries. But it's going to be a fair relationship. We want fairness.

Donald Trump

00:03:26 - 00:03:59 (33 sec)

But to fix our immigration system, we must change our leadership in Washington, and we must change it quickly. Sadly, sadly, there is no other way. The truth is our immigration system is worse than anybody ever realized. But the facts aren't known because the media won't report on them. The politicians won't talk about them.

Donald Trump

00:03:59 - 00:04:34 (35 sec)

[Audience yells "Boo"] And the special interests spend a lot of money trying to cover them up because they are making an absolute fortune. That's the way it is. Today on a very complicated and very difficult subject, you will get the truth. The fundamental problem with the immigration system in our country is that it serves the needs of wealthy donors, political activists, and powerful, powerful politicians.

Donald Trump

00:04:34 - 00:05:12 (38 sec)

It's all you can do. Thank you. Thank you. Let me tell you who it does not serve. It does not serve you, the American people, doesn't serve you. When politicians talk about immigration reform, they usually mean the following: Amnesty, open borders, lower wages, immigration reform, should mean something else entirely.

Donald Trump

00:05:12 - 00:06:00 (48 sec)

It should mean improvements to our laws and policies to make life better for American citizens. Thank you. But if we're going to make our immigration system work, then we have to be prepared to talk honestly and without fear about these important and very sensitive issues. For instance, we have to listen to the concerns that working people, our forgotten working people have over the record pace of immigration, and its impact on their jobs, wages, housing, schools, tax bills, and general living conditions.

Donald Trump

00:06:00 - 00:06:33 (33 sec)

These are valid concerns expressed by decent and patriotic citizens from all backgrounds, all over. We also have to be honest about the fact that not everyone who seeks to join our country will be able to successfully assimilate. Sometimes, it's just not going to work out. It's our right as a sovereign nation to choose immigrants that we think are the likeliest to thrive and flourish and love us. Then, there is the issue of security.

Donald Trump

00:06:33 - 00:07:20 (47 sec)

Countless innocent American lives have been stolen because our politicians have failed in their duty to secure our borders and enforce our laws like they have to be enforced. I have met with many of the great parents who lost their children to sanctuary cities and open borders. So many people, so many, many people, so sad.

Donald Trump

00:07:20 - 00:07:46 (27 sec)

They will be joining me on this stage in a little while and I look forward to introducing -- these are amazing, amazing people. Countless Americans who have died in recent years would be alive today, if not for the open-border policies of this administration, and the administration that causes this horrible, horrible thought process.

Donald Trump

00:07:46 - 00:08:20 (34 sec)

It's called Hillary Clinton. [Audience yells "Boo"] This includes incredible Americans like 21-year old Sara Ruth. The man who killed her arrived at the border, entered federal custody, and then was released into the US, think of it, into the US community under the policies of the White House, Barack Obama, and Hillary Clinton.

Donald Trump

00:08:20 - 00:09:03 (43 sec)

[Audience yells "Boo"] Weak, weak, weak policies. Weak and foolish policies. He was released again after the crime and now he's out there at large. Sarah had graduated from college with a 4.0, top student in her class, one day before her death. Also among the victims of the Obama-Clinton open-border policy was Grant Roenbeck, a 21-year old convenience store clerk, and a really good guy from Mesa, Arizona.

Donald Trump

00:09:03 - 00:09:41 (38 sec)

A lot of you have known about Grant. He was murdered by an illegal immigrant gang member previously convicted of burglary who had also been released from federal custody, and they knew it was going to happen again. Another victim is Kate Steinle, gunned down in the sanctuary city of San Francisco by an illegal immigrant [Audience yells "Boo"] deported five previous times, and they knew he was no good.

Donald Trump

00:09:41 - 00:10:15 (34 sec)

Then there is the case of 90-year old Earl Olander who is brutally beaten and left to bleed to death in his home, 90 years old and defenseless. The perpetrators were illegal immigrants with criminal records a mile long who did not meet Obama administration standards for removal. And they knew it was going to happen.

Donald Trump

00:10:15 - 00:11:09 (54 sec)

In California, a 64-year old Air Force veteran, a great woman according to everybody that knew her, Marilyn Farris was sexually assaulted and beaten to death with a hammer. Her killer had been arrested on multiple occasions but was never ever deported despite the fact that everybody wanted him out. A 2011 report from the Government Accountability Office found that illegal immigrants and other non-citizens in our prisons and jails together had around 25,000 homicide arrests to their names, 25,000. On top of that, illegal immigration costs our country more than one $113 billion a year and this is what we get.

Donald Trump

00:11:09 - 00:12:07 (58 sec)

[Audience yells "Boo"] For the money we are going to spend on illegal immigration over the next 10 years, we could provide 1 million at-risk students with a school voucher which so many people are wanting. While there are many illegal immigrants in our country who are good people, many, many, this doesn't change the fact that most illegal immigrants are lower-skilled workers with less education who compete directly against vulnerable American workers, and that these illegal workers draw much more out from the system than they can ever possibly payback, and they're hurting a lot of our people that can not get jobs under any circumstances.

Donald Trump

00:12:07 - 00:13:02 (55 sec)

But these facts are never reported. Instead, the media and my opponent discuss one thing and only one thing. The needs of people living here illegally, in many cases, by the way, they're treated better than our vets. [Audience yells "Boo"] Not going to happen anymore, folks. November 8th. Not going to happen anymore.

Donald Trump

00:13:02 - 00:13:36 (34 sec)

[Audience chants "Trump"] The truth is the central issue is not the needs of the 11 million illegal immigrants or however many there may be. And honestly, we've been hearing that number for years, it's always eleven million. Our government has no idea. It could be 3 million, it could be 30 million, they have no idea what the number is. Frankly, our government has no idea what they're doing on many, many fronts, folks.

Donald Trump

00:13:36 - 00:14:22 (46 sec)

But whatever the number, that's never really been the central issue, it will never be a central issue. It doesn't matter from that standpoint. Anyone who tells you that the core issue is the needs of those living here illegally has simply spent too much time in Washington. [Audience yells "Yeah"] Only the out-of-touch media elites think the biggest problem facing American side to -- you know this, you know this, this is what they talk about, facing American society today is that there are 11 million illegal immigrants who don't have legal status.

Donald Trump

00:14:22 - 00:15:05 (43 sec)

And they also think the biggest thing, and you know this, is not nuclear, it's not ISIS, it's not Russia, it's not China, it's global warming. [Audience yells "Boo"] To all the politicians, donors, and special interests, hear these words from me, and all of you today. There is only one core issue in the immigration debate and that issue is the well being of the American people.

Donald Trump

00:15:05 - 00:15:39 (34 sec)

Nothing even comes a close second. Hillary Clinton for instance, talks constantly about her fears that families will be separated but she's not talking about the American families who have been permanently separated from their loved ones because of a preventable homicide, because of a preventable death, because of murder.

Donald Trump

00:15:39 - 00:16:31 (52 sec)

No, she's only talking about families who come here in violation of the law. We will treat everyone living or residing in our country with great dignity, so important. We will be fair, just, and compassionate to all, but our greatest compassion must be for our American citizens. [Audience chants "USA"] Thank you.

Donald Trump

00:16:31 - 00:17:05 (34 sec)

President Obama and Hillary Clinton have engaged in gross dereliction of duty by surrendering the safety of the American people to open borders and you know it better than anybody right here in Arizona. You know it. President Obama and Hillary Clinton supports sanctuary cities. They support catch and release on the border.

Donald Trump

00:17:05 - 00:17:42 (37 sec)

They support visa overstays. They support the release of dangerous, dangerous, dangerous criminals from detention. And they support unconstitutional Executive Amnesty. [Audience yells "Boo"] Hillary Clinton has pledged amnesty in her first 100 days and her plan will provide Obamacare, Social Security, and Medicare for illegal immigrants, breaking the federal budget.

Donald Trump

00:17:42 - 00:18:20 (38 sec)

[Audience yells "Boo"] On top of that, she promises uncontrolled low-skilled immigration that continues to reduce jobs and wages for American workers, and especially, for African-American and Hispanic workers within our country, our citizens. Most incredibly, because to me this is unbelievable, we have no idea who these people are, where they come from.

Donald Trump

00:18:20 - 00:18:48 (29 sec)

I always a Trojan horse, watch what's going to happen, folks. It's not going to be pretty. This includes her plan to bring in 620,000 new refugees from Syria and that region over a short period of time. [Audience yells "Boo"] And even yesterday when you were watching the news, you saw thousands and thousands of people coming in from Syria.

Donald Trump

00:18:48 - 00:19:27 (39 sec)

What is wrong with our politicians, our leaders if we can call them that? What the hell are we doing? Hard to believe. Hard to believe. Now that you've heard about Hillary Clinton's plan about which she has not answered a single question. Let me tell you about my plan and you notice and do you notice all the time for weeks and weeks they're demeaning my plan, debating it, talking about it. What about this?

Donald Trump

00:19:27 - 00:19:58 (30 sec)

What about that? They never even mentioned her plan on immigration because she doesn't want to get into the quagmire. It's a tough one. She doesn't know what she's doing except open borders and let everybody come in, and destroy our country by the way. While Hillary Clinton meets only with donors and lobbyists, my plan was crafted with the input from federal Immigration Officers, very great people.

Donald Trump

00:19:58 - 00:21:16 (79 sec)

Among the top immigration experts anywhere in this country, who represent workers, not corporations. Very important to us. I also worked with lawmakers. Who've led on this issue on behalf of American citizens for many years? And most importantly, I've met with the people directly impacted by these policies.

Donald Trump

00:21:16 - 00:21:40 (24 sec)

So important. Number one, are you ready? [Audience yells "Yes"] Are you ready? [Audience yells "Yes"] We will build a great wall along the Southern Border. [Audience chants "Build that wall"] And Mexico will pay for the wall, 100%. They don't know it yet but they're going to pay for them. And they're great people and great leaders but they're going to pay for the wall.

Donald Trump

00:21:40 - 00:22:28 (47 sec)

On day one, we will begin working on an impenetrable, physical, tall, powerful, beautiful Southern Border wall. We will use the best technology including above and below ground sensors. That's the tunnels. Remember that above and below. Above and below ground sensors. Towers, aerial surveillance, and manpower to supplement the wall, find and dislocate tunnels, and keep out criminal cartels.

Donald Trump

00:22:28 - 00:22:53 (25 sec)

And Mexico you know that will work with us. I really believe it. Mexico will work with us. I absolutely believe it. And especially, after meeting with their wonderful, wonderful President today, I really believe they want to solve this problem along with us, and I'm sure they will. Number two, we are going to end catch-and-release.

Donald Trump

00:22:53 - 00:23:32 (40 sec)

We catch them, oh, go ahead. We catch them, go ahead. Under my administration, anyone who illegally crosses the border will be detained until they are removed out of our country and back to the country from which they came. And they'll be brought great distances. We're not dropping them right across. They learned that President Eisenhower, they drop them across, right across, and they'd come back and across.

Donald Trump

00:23:32 - 00:24:16 (44 sec)

Then when they flew him to a long-distance all of a sudden that was the end. We will take them great distances but we will take them to the country where they came from, OK? Number three, number three, this is the one, I think it's so great. It's hard to believe people don't even talk about it. Zero tolerance for criminal aliens is zero, zero.

Donald Trump

00:24:16 - 00:24:50 (34 sec)

Zero. We don't -- they don't come in here. They don't come in here. According to federal data, there are at least 2 million, 2 million, think of it, criminal aliens, now inside of our country, 2 million people criminal aliens. [Audience yells "Boo"] We will begin moving them out day one, as soon as I take office, day one in joint operation with local, state, and federal law enforcement.

Donald Trump

00:24:50 - 00:25:18 (27 sec)

Now just so you understand, the police, who we all respect. Say hello to the police. Boy, they don't get the credit they deserve. I can tell you. They're great people but the police and law enforcement, they know who these people are. They live with these people. They get mocked by these people. They can't do anything about these people, and they want to. They know who these people are.

Donald Trump

00:25:18 - 00:26:00 (43 sec)

Day one, my first hour in office, those people are gone. And you can call it deported if you want. The press doesn't like that term. You can call it whatever the hell you want. They're gone. Beyond the 2 million, and there are vast numbers of additional criminal illegal immigrants who have fled, but their days have run out in this country.

Donald Trump

00:26:00 - 00:26:56 (56 sec)

The crime will stop. They're going to be gone. It will be over. They're going out. They're going out fast. Moving forward, we will issue detainers for illegal immigrants who are arrested for any crime whatsoever and they will be placed into immediate removal proceedings, if we even have to do that. We will terminate the Obama administration's deadly, and it is deadly, non-enforcement policies that allow thousands of criminal aliens to freely roam our streets, walk around, do whatever they want to do, crime all over the place.

Donald Trump

00:26:56 - 00:27:34 (38 sec)

That's over. That's over folks. That's over. Since 2013 alone, the Obama administration has allowed 300,000 criminal aliens to return back into United States communities. [Audience yells "Boo"] These are individuals encountered or identified by ICE, but who were not detained or processed for deportation because it wouldn't have been politically correct.

Donald Trump

00:27:34 - 00:28:16 (43 sec)

[Audience yells "Boo"] My plan also includes cooperating closely with local jurisdictions to remove criminal aliens immediately. We will restore the highly successful Secure Communities program, good program. We will expand and revitalize the popular 287(g) partnerships which will help to identify hundreds of thousands of deportable aliens in local jails that we don't even know about.

Donald Trump

00:28:16 - 00:28:43 (27 sec)

Both of these programs have been recklessly gutted by this administration and those were programs that worked. This is yet one more area where we are headed in a totally opposite direction. There is no common sense. There's no brain power in our administration by our leader or our leaders. None. None. None.

Donald Trump

00:28:43 - 00:29:32 (48 sec)

On my first day in office, I am also going to ask Congress to pass Kate's law, named for Kate Steinle. To ensure that criminal aliens convicted of illegal reentry receive strong mandatory minimum sentences. Strong. And then we get them out. Another reform I'm proposing is the passes of legislation named for Detective Michael Davis and Deputy Sheriff Danny Oliver, two law enforcement officers, recently killed by a previously deported illegal immigrant.

Donald Trump

00:29:32 - 00:30:20 (49 sec)

The Davis-Oliver bill will enhance cooperation with state and local authorities to ensure that criminal immigrants and terrorists are swiftly, really swiftly identified and removed and they will go fast. Believe me. They're going to go fast. We are going to triple the number of ICE deportation officers. Within ice, I am going to create a new special deportation task force focused on identifying and quickly removing the most dangerous criminal illegal immigrants in America who have evaded justice, just like Hillary Clinton has evaded justice, OK? Maybe they'll be able to deport her.

Donald Trump

00:30:20 - 00:31:25 (65 sec)

The local police who know everyone of these criminals, and they know each and everyone, by name, by crime, where they live, they will work so fast, and our local police will be so happy that they don't have to be abused by these thugs anymore. [Audience yells "Yeah"] There's no great mystery to it. They've put up with it for years and now finally, we will turn the tables and law enforcement and our police will be allowed to clear up this dangerous and threatening mess.

Donald Trump

00:31:25 - 00:32:12 (47 sec)

We're also going to hire 5,000 more Border Patrol agents who gave me their endorsement, 16,500 gave me their endorsement, and put more of them on the border instead of behind desks which is good. We will expand the number of Border Patrol stations significantly. I've had a chance to spend time with these incredible law enforcement officers and I want to take a moment to thank them.

Donald Trump

00:32:12 - 00:32:55 (43 sec)

What they do is incredible. And getting their endorsement means so much to me, more to me really that I can say, means so much. First time they've ever endorsed a presidential candidate. Number four, block funding for sanctuary cities. We block the funding. No more funding. We will end the sanctuary cities that have resulted in so many needless deaths.

Donald Trump

00:32:55 - 00:33:49 (55 sec)

Cities that refuse to cooperate with federal authorities will not receive taxpayer dollars. And we will work with Congress to pass legislation to protect those jurisdictions that do assist federal authorities. Number five, cancel unconstitutional Executive Orders and enforce all immigration laws. We will immediately terminate President Obama's two illegal Executive Amnesties in which he defied federal law and the Constitution to give amnesty to approximately 5 million illegal immigrants, 5 million.

Donald Trump

00:33:49 - 00:34:30 (41 sec)

[Audience yells "Boo"] And how about all of the millions that are waiting on line going through the process legally. So unfair. Hillary Clinton has pledged to keep both of these illegal Amnesty Programs including the 2014 Amnesty which has been blocked by the United States Supreme Court. Great. Clinton has also pledged to add a third Executive Amnesty, and by the way, folks, she will be a disaster for our country, a disaster.

Donald Trump

00:34:30 - 00:35:00 (30 sec)

In so many other ways and don't forget the Supreme Court of the United States. Don't forget that when you go to vote in November 8th. And don't forget your Second Amendment. And don't forget the repeal and replacement of Obamacare. And don't forget building up our depleted military. And don't forget taking care of our vets.

Donald Trump

00:35:00 - 00:35:30 (30 sec)

Don't forget our vets. They have been forgotten. Clinton's plan would trigger a constitutional crisis, unlike almost anything we have ever seen before. In effect, she would be abolishing the lawmaking powers of Congress in order to write her own laws from the Oval Office. And you see what bad judgment she has.

Donald Trump

00:35:30 - 00:36:05 (35 sec)

She has seriously bad judgment. [Audience yells "Boo"] Can you imagine? In a Trump administration, all immigration laws will be enforced, will be enforced. As with any law enforcement activity, we will set priorities. But unlike this administration, no one will be immune or exempt from enforcement. And ICE and Border Patrol officers will be allowed to do their jobs the way their jobs are supposed to be done.

Donald Trump

00:36:05 - 00:36:53 (49 sec)

Anyone who has entered the United States illegally is subject to deportation. That is what it means to have laws and to have a country. Otherwise, we don't have a country. Our enforcement priorities will include removing criminals, gang members, security threats, visa overstays, public charges that is those relying on public welfare or straining the safety net along with millions of recent illegal arrivals, and overstays who come here under this current corrupt administration.

Donald Trump

00:36:53 - 00:37:33 (40 sec)

Number six, we are going to suspend the issuance of visas to any place where adequate screening can not occur. According to data provided by the Senate Subcommittee on Immigration and the national interest between 9/11 and the end of 2014, at least 380 foreign-born individuals were convicted in terror cases inside the United States.

Donald Trump

00:37:33 - 00:38:05 (32 sec)

And even right now, the largest number of people are under investigation for exactly this, that we've ever had in the history of our country. Our country is a mess. We don't even know what to look for anymore, folks. Our country has to straighten out and we have to straighten out fast. The number is likely higher but the administration refuses to provide this information even to Congress.

Donald Trump

00:38:05 - 00:38:38 (33 sec)

As soon as I enter office, I am going to ask the Department of State which has been brutalized by Hillary Clinton, brutalized. [Audience yells "Boo"] Homeland Security and the Department of Justice to begin a comprehensive review of these cases in order to develop a list of regions and countries from which immigration must be suspended until proven and effective vetting mechanisms can be put in place.

Donald Trump

00:38:38 - 00:39:07 (28 sec)

I call it extreme vetting, right? Extreme vetting. I want extreme. It's going to be so tough and if somebody comes in that's fine but they're going to be good. It's extreme. And if people don't like it, we've got to have a country, folks. Got to have a country. Countries from which immigration will be suspended would include places like Syria and Libya.

Donald Trump

00:39:07 - 00:39:48 (42 sec)

And we are going to stop the tens of thousands of people coming in from Syria. We have no idea who they are, where they come from, there's no documentation, there's no paperwork, it's going to end badly, folks. It's going to end very, very badly. For the price of resettling, one refugee in the United States, 12 could be resettled in a safe zone in their home region which I agree with 100%. We have to build safe zones and we'll get the money from the Gulf states.

Donald Trump

00:39:48 - 00:40:20 (32 sec)

We don't want to put up the money. We owe almost $20 trillion, double since Obama took office, our national debt. [Audience yells "Boo"] But we will get the money from Gulf states and others. We'll supervise it. We'll build safe zones which is something that I think all of us want to see. Another reform involves new screening tests for all applicants that include, and this is so important, especially if you get the right people.

Donald Trump

00:40:20 - 00:41:09 (48 sec)

And we will get the right people, an ideological certification to make sure that those we are admitting to our country share our values and love our people. [Audience chants "USA"] Thank you. We're very proud of our country aren't we, really? With all it's going through we're very proud of our country. For instance, in the last five years, we've admitted nearly 100,000 immigrants from Iraq and Afghanistan.

Donald Trump

00:41:09 - 00:41:48 (40 sec)

In these two countries according to Pew Research, a majority of residents say that the barbaric practice of honor killings against women are often or sometimes justified. That's what they say. [Audience yells "Boo"] That's what they say. They're justified, right? And we're admitting them to our country. Applicants will be asked for their views about honor killings, about respect for women, and gays and minorities, attitudes on radical Islam, which our president refuses to say, and many other topics as part of this vetting procedure.

Donald Trump

00:41:48 - 00:42:26 (38 sec)

And if we have the right people doing it, believe me, very, very few will slip through the cracks. Hopefully, none. Number seven, we will ensure that other countries take their people back when we order them deported. There are at least 23 countries that refuse to take their people back after they've been ordered to leave the United States including large numbers of violent criminals.

Donald Trump

00:42:26 - 00:43:00 (34 sec)

They won't take them back. So we say, OK, we'll keep them. Not going to happen with me, folks. Not going to happen with me. Due to a Supreme Court decision, if these violent offenders cannot be sent home, our law enforcement officers have to release them into your communities. [Audience yells "Boo"] And by the way, the results are horrific, horrific.

Donald Trump

00:43:00 - 00:43:30 (30 sec)

There are often terrible consequences such as Casey Chadwick's tragic death in Connecticut just last year. Yet, despite the existence of a law that commands a Secretary of State to stop issuing visas to these countries, Secretary Hillary Clinton ignored this law and refused to use this powerful tool to bring nations into compliance and they would comply if we would act properly.

Donald Trump

00:43:30 - 00:43:57 (27 sec)

In other words, if we had leaders that knew what they were doing which we don't. The result of her misconduct was the release of thousands and thousands of dangerous criminal aliens who should have been sent home to their countries. Instead, we have them all over the place. Probably, a couple in this room, as a matter of fact.

Donald Trump

00:43:57 - 00:44:31 (34 sec)

But I hope not. According to a report from the Boston Globe, from the year 2008 through 2014, nearly 13,000 criminal aliens were released back into U.S. communities because their home countries would not under any circumstances take them back. Hard to believe with the power we have. Hard to believe. We're like the big bully that keeps getting beat up. Do you ever see that?

Donald Trump

00:44:31 - 00:45:08 (38 sec)

The big bully that keeps getting beat up. These 13,000 releases occurred on Hillary Clinton's watch. She had the power and the duty to stop it cold and she decided she would not do it. [Audience yells "Boo"] And Arizona knows better than most exactly what I'm talking about. Those released include individuals convicted of killings, sexual assaults, and some of the most heinous crimes imaginable.

Donald Trump

00:45:08 - 00:45:45 (37 sec)

The Boston Globe writes that a Globe review of 323 criminals released in New England from 2008 to 2012 found that as many as 30% committed new offenses including rape, attempted murder, and child molestation. We take them. We take them. Number eight, we will finally complete the biometric entry-exit visa tracking system which we need desperately.

Donald Trump

00:45:45 - 00:46:13 (28 sec)

For years, Congress has required biometric entry-exit visa tracking systems but it has never been completed. The politicians are all talk no action, never happens. Never happens. Hillary Clinton, all talk. Unfortunately, when there is action, it's always the wrong decision. Do you ever notice? In my administration, we will ensure that this system is in place.

Donald Trump

00:46:13 - 00:46:39 (26 sec)

And I will tell you. It will be on land. It will be on sea. It will be in air. We will have a proper tracking system. Approximately half of new illegal immigrants came on temporary visas and then never ever left. Why should they? Nobody's telling them to leave. Stay as long as you want, we'll take care of you.

Donald Trump

00:46:39 - 00:47:12 (33 sec)

Beyond violating our laws, visa overstays pose, and they really are a big problem, pose a substantial threat to national security. The 9/11 Commission said that this tracking system should be a high priority and would have assisted law enforcement and intelligence officials in August and September 2001 in conducting a search for two of the 9/11 hijackers that were in the United States on expired visas.

Donald Trump

00:47:12 - 00:47:55 (43 sec)

And you know what that would have meant? What that could have meant. Wouldn't that have been wonderful, right? What that could have meant. Last year alone, nearly half a million individuals overstayed their temporary visas, removing visa overstays will be a top priority of my administration. If people around the world believe they can just come on a temporary visa and never ever leave, the Obama-Clinton policy that's what it is, then we have a completely open border, and we no longer have a country.

Donald Trump

00:47:55 - 00:48:25 (29 sec)

We must send a message that visa expiration dates will be strongly enforced. Number nine, we will turn off the jobs and benefits magnet. We will ensure that E-Verify is used to the fullest extent possible under existing law. And we will work with Congress to strengthen and expand its use across the country.

Donald Trump

00:48:25 - 00:48:52 (27 sec)

Immigration law doesn't exist for the purpose of keeping criminals out. It exists to protect all aspects of American life. The worksite, the welfare office, the education system, and everything else. That is why immigration limits are established in the first place. If we only enforce the laws against crime then we have an open border to the entire world.

Donald Trump

00:48:52 - 00:49:24 (33 sec)

We will enforce all of our immigration laws and the same goes for government benefits. The Center for Immigration Studies estimates that 62% of households headed by illegal immigrants, use some form of cash or non-cash welfare programs like food stamps or housing assistance. Tremendous costs, by the way, to our country, tremendous costs.

Donald Trump

00:49:24 - 00:49:55 (30 sec)

This directly violates the federal Public Charge law designed to protect the United States Treasury. Those who abuse our welfare system will be priorities for immediate removal. Number 10, we will reform legal immigration to serve the best interests of America and its workers. The forgotten people, workers.

Donald Trump

00:49:55 - 00:50:18 (24 sec)

We're going to take care of our workers. And by the way, and by the way, we're going to make great trade deals. We're going to renegotiate trade deals. We're going to bring our jobs back home. We're going to bring our jobs back home. We have the most incompetently worked trade deals ever negotiated probably in the history of the world.

Donald Trump

00:50:18 - 00:50:42 (23 sec)

And that starts with NAFTA. And now they want to go TPP, one of the great disasters. We're going to bring our jobs back home. And if companies want to leave, Arizona, and if they want to leave other states, there's going to be a lot of trouble for them. It's not going to be so easy. There will be consequence remember that.

Donald Trump

00:50:42 - 00:51:14 (33 sec)

There will be consequence. They're not going to be leaving, go to another country, make the product, sell it into the United States and while we end up with his no taxes and total unemployment. It's not going to happen. There will be consequences. We've admitted 59 million immigrants to the United States between 1965 and 2015, many of these arrivals have greatly enriched our country.

Donald Trump

00:51:14 - 00:51:50 (36 sec)

So true. But we now have an obligation to them and to their children to control future immigration as we have following, if you think previous immigration waves, we've had some big waves, and tremendously positive things have happened, incredible things have happened to ensure assimilation. We want to ensure that it works, assimilation, an important word, integration, and upward mobility.

Donald Trump

00:51:50 - 00:52:22 (31 sec)

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.

Donald Trump

00:52:22 - 00:52:56 (34 sec)

To select immigrants based on their likelihood of success in U.S. society and their ability to be financially self-sufficient. We take anybody, come on in anybody, just come on in. Not anymore. You know, folks, it's called a two-way street. It is a two-way street, right? We need a system that serves our needs not the needs of others.

Donald Trump

00:52:56 - 00:53:40 (44 sec)

Remember, under a Trump administration, it's called America First. Remember that. To choose immigrants based on merit, merit, skill, and proficiency. Doesn't that sound nice? And to establish new immigration controls to boost wages and to ensure that open jobs are offered to American workers first. And that in particular, African-American and Latino workers who are being shut out in this process so unfairly.

Donald Trump

00:53:40 - 00:54:11 (30 sec)

And Hillary Clinton is going to do nothing for the African-American worker, the Latino worker, she's going to do nothing. Give me your vote she says on November 8th, and then she'll say, so long see you in four years. That's what it is. She is going to do nothing. And just look at the past, she's done nothing.

Donald Trump

00:54:11 - 00:54:40 (30 sec)

She's been there for 35 years, she's done nothing. And I say, what do you have to lose? Choose me. Watch how good we're going to do together. Watch. We want people to come into our country but they have to come into our country legally and properly vetted and in a manner that serves the national interest.

Donald Trump

00:54:40 - 00:55:11 (31 sec)

We've been living under outdated immigration rules from decades ago. They're decades and decades old. To avoid this happening in the future, I believe we should sunset our visa laws so that Congress is forced to periodically revise and revisit them, to bring them up to date. They're archaic. They're ancient.

Donald Trump

00:55:11 - 00:55:41 (30 sec)

We wouldn't put our entire federal budget on autopilot for decades, so why should we do the same for the very, very complex subject of immigration? So let's now talk about the big picture. These 10 steps if rigorously followed and enforced, will accomplish more in a matter of months than our politicians have accomplished on this issue in the last 50 years.

Donald Trump

00:55:41 - 00:56:14 (33 sec)

It's would have happened, folks. Because I am proudly not a politician, because I am not behold to any special interests, I've spent a lot of money on my campaign, I'll tell you. I write those checks. Nobody owns Trump. I will get this done for you and for your family. We'll do it right. You'll be proud of our country again.

Donald Trump

00:56:14 - 00:56:57 (43 sec)

We'll do it right. We will accomplish all of the steps outlined above and when we do, peace, and law, and justice, and prosperity will prevail. Crime will go down. Border crossings will plummet. Gangs will disappear and the gangs are all over the place. And welfare use will decrease. We will have a peace dividend to spend on rebuilding America beginning with our American inner-cities.

Donald Trump

00:56:57 - 00:57:32 (35 sec)

We're going to rebuild them. For once and for all. For those here illegally today, who are seeking legal status, they will have one route and one route only, to return home and apply for reentry like everybody else under the rules of the new Legal Immigration System that I have outlined above. Those who have left to seek entry [Audience chants "Trump"] Thank you.

Donald Trump

00:57:32 - 00:58:14 (42 sec)

Those you have left to seek entry under this new system, and it will be an efficient system, will not be awarded surplus visas, but will have to apply for entry under the immigration caps or limits that will be established in the future. We will break the cycle of amnesty and illegal immigration. We will break the cycle.

Donald Trump

00:58:14 - 00:59:01 (48 sec)

There will be no amnesty. Our message to the world will be this, you cannot obtain legal status or become a citizen of the United States by illegally entering our country. Can't do it. This declaration alone will help stop the crisis of illegal crossings and illegal overstays. Very importantly, people will know that you can't just smuggle in, hunker down, and wait to be legalized.

Donald Trump

00:59:01 - 00:59:44 (43 sec)

Not going to work that way. Those days are over. Importantly, in several years, when we have accomplished all of our enforcement and deportation goals, and truly ended illegal immigration for good including the construction of a great wall which we will have built in record time, and at a reasonable cost which you never hear from the government, and the establishment of our new Lawful Immigration System.

Donald Trump

00:59:44 - 01:00:14 (30 sec)

Then and only then, will we be in a position to consider the appropriate disposition of those individuals who remain. That discussion can take place only in an atmosphere in which illegal immigration is a memory of the past, no longer with us, allowing us to weigh the different options available based on the new circumstances at the time.

Donald Trump

01:00:14 - 01:00:50 (35 sec)

Right now, however, we are in the middle of a jobs crisis, a border crisis, and a terrorism crisis like never before. All energies of the federal government and the legislative process must now be focused on immigration security. That is the only conversation we should be having at this time. Immigration security, cut it off.

Donald Trump

01:00:50 - 01:01:23 (33 sec)

Whether it's dangerous materials being smuggled across the border, terrorists entering on visas or Americans losing their jobs to foreign workers, these are the problems we must now focus on fixing and the media needs to begin demanding to hear Hillary Clinton's answer on how her policies will affect Americans and their security.

Donald Trump

01:01:23 - 01:02:14 (51 sec)

These are matters of life and death for our country and its people, and we deserve answers from Hillary Clinton. And do you notice? She doesn't answer. She didn't go to Louisiana. She didn't go to Mexico. She was invited. She doesn't have the strength or the stamina to Make America Great Again. Believe me. What we do know despite the lack of media curiosity is that Hillary Clinton promises a radical amnesty combined with a radical reduction in immigration enforcement.

Donald Trump

01:02:14 - 01:02:52 (38 sec)

Just ask the Border Patrol about Hillary Clinton. You won't like what you're hearing. The result will be millions more illegal immigrants thousands of more violent, horrible crimes, and total chaos and lawlessness. That's what's going to happen as sure as you're standing there. [Audience yells "Boo"] This election and I believe this, is our last chance to secure the border, stop illegal immigration, and reform our laws to make your life better.

Donald Trump

01:02:52 - 01:03:25 (33 sec)

I really believe this is it. This is our last time. November 8th, November 8th, you got to get out and vote on November 8th. It's our last chance. It's our last chance. And that includes Supreme Court justices and Second Amendment. Remember that. So I want to remind everyone what we're fighting for and who we are fighting for.

Donald Trump

01:03:25 - 01:04:35 (71 sec)

I am going to ask, these are really special people that I've gotten to know, I'm going to ask all of the angel moms to come join me on this stage, right now. These are amazing women. These are amazing people. [Audience chants "USA"] I've become friends with so many but Jamiel Shaw, incredible guy, lost his son so violently.

Donald Trump

01:04:35 - 01:04:40 (4 sec)

Say just a few words about your child.

Agnes Gibboney

01:04:40 - 01:04:54 (14 sec)

My son Ronald De Silva was murdered April 27th, 2002 by an illegal alien who had been previously deported. And what so -- makes me so outrageous is that we came here legally. Thank you, Mr. Trump. I totally support you. You have my vote.

Donald Trump

01:04:54 - 01:05:06 (12 sec)

Thank you. Thank you. You know what? Name your child and come right by. Go ahead.

Laura Wilkerson

01:05:06 - 01:05:14 (8 sec)

Laura Wilkerson and my son was Joshua Wilkerson. He was murdered by an illegal in 2010 and I personally support Mr. Trump for our next President.

Ruth Johnston-Martin

01:05:14 - 01:05:40 (26 sec)

My name is Ruth Johnston-Martin. My husband was shot by an illegal alien. He fought a good fight but he took his last breath in 2002 and I support this man who is going to change this country for the better. God bless you.

Maureen Maloney

01:05:40 - 01:05:55 (15 sec)

My name is Maureen Maloney and our son Matthew Denice was 23 years old when he was dragged a quarter of a mile to his death by an illegal alien while horrified witnesses were banging on a truck trying to stop him.

Michael Maloney

01:05:55 - 01:06:20 (26 sec)

Our son Matthew Denice, if Donald Trump were President in 2011, our son Matthew Denice and other Americans would be alive today.

Kathy Woods

01:06:20 - 01:06:48 (28 sec)

My name is Kathy Woods. My son Steve, a highschool senior, 17 years old, went to the beach after highschool football game. The local gang came along, nine members, the cause were batted to like war in Beirut, and all I can say is they murdered him. And if Mr. Trump had been in office then, the border would have been secure and our children would not be dead today.

Brenda Sparks

01:06:48 - 01:07:22 (34 sec)

Hi, my name is Brenda Sparks and my son is named Eric Zepeda. He was raised by a legal immigrant from Honduras only to be murdered by an illegal in 2011. His murderer never did a second in handcuffs or jail. Got away with killing an American. So I'm voting for Trump, and by the way, so is my mother.

Dee Engle

01:07:22 - 01:07:47 (25 sec)

My name is Dee Engle. My cousin Rebecca Ann Johnston known as Becky was murdered on January the 1st, 1989 in North Little Rock, Arkansas. Thank you. And if you don't vote Trump. We won't have a country. Trump all the way.

Shannon Estes

01:07:47 - 01:08:00 (13 sec)

I'm Shannon Estes and my daughter Shayley Estes, 22 years old was murdered here in Phoenix last July 24th by a Russian who overstayed his visa and vote Trump.

Maria Mendoza

01:08:00 - 01:08:26 (26 sec)

Maria Mendoza the mother of Sergeant Brandon Mendoza who was killed in a violent head on collision May 12th, 2014 in Mesa. Thank you. And I want to thank Phoenix for the support you've all always given me and I want to tell you what, I'm supporting the man who is the only man who's going to save our country and what we are going to be leaving our children.

Steve Roenback

01:08:26 - 01:08:41 (15 sec)

I'm Steve Roenback father of Grant Roenback, 21 years old. Killed January 22nd, 2015 by an illegal immigrant who shot him in the face. I truly believe that Mr. Trump is going to change things. He's going to fight for my family and he's going to fight for America.

Donald Trump

01:08:41 - 01:09:02 (21 sec)

These are amazing people and I'm not asking for their endorsement. I -- believe me that -- I just think I've gotten to know so many of them and many more from our group, but they are incredible people and what they're going through is incredible. And there's just no reason for it. So let's give them a really tremendous hand.

Donald Trump

01:09:02 - 01:09:30 (28 sec)

That's tough stuff. I will tell you that is tough stuff. Incredible people. So now is the time for these voices to be heard. Now is the time for the media to begin asking questions on their behalf. Now. Now is the time for all of us as one country, Democrat, Republican, Liberal, Conservative to band together to deliver justice and safety and security for all Americans.

Donald Trump

01:09:30 - 01:10:55 (85 sec)

Let's fix this horrible, horrible problem. It can be fixed quickly. Let's secure our border. Let's stop the drugs and crime from pouring into our country. Let's protect our Social Security and Medicare. Let's get unemployed Americans off the welfare and back to work in their own country. This has been an incredible evening.

Donald Trump

01:10:55 - 01:11:51 (56 sec)

We're going to remember this evening. November 8th, we have to get everybody. This is such an important state. November 8th, we have to get everybody to go out and vote. We're going to bring -- [Audience chants "Trump"] Thank you. Thank you. We're going to take our country back, folks. This is a movement.

Donald Trump

01:11:51 - 01:12:38 (46 sec)

We're going to take our country back. [Audience chants "Trump"] Thank you. This is an incredible movement. The world is talking about it. The world is talking about it. And by the way, if you haven't been looking at what's been happening at the polls over the last three or four days, I think you should start looking.

Donald Trump

01:12:38 - 01:13:19 (41 sec)

We should start looking together. We can save American lives, American jobs, and American futures. Together, we can save America itself. Join me in this mission. We're going to Make America Great Again. Thank you. I love you. Thank you. God bless you, everybody. God bless you.