Trump Sticks With Deportation Of Illegal Migrants

MEP: US Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump during a meeting with Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto, promised a harsh crackdown on illegal, particularly criminal, immigrants saying “Mexico will pay for a border wall “100%”, in a major immigration speech.”

Trump opened his speech on Wednesday evening by detailing stories of undocumented immigrants who committed violent crimes, telling thousands in the convention centre in downtown Phoenix that he had “met with many of the great parents who lost their children to sanctuary cities and open borders”.

He told a cheering crowd in Arizona that he would secure the border, and left open the possibility that millions of illegal immigrants be deported.

Trump said that the biometric entry/exit visa tracking in the United States will be finally complete under his presidency.

There had been speculation that the Republican candidate would back off his plan to deport the estimated 11m undocumented immigrants living in the US.

Meanwhile, Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto says he has told US Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump that Mexico will not pay for the candidate’s proposed wall along the Mexico-US border.

“At the beginning of the conversation with Donald Trump, I made it clear that Mexico will not pay for the wall,” said Pena Nieto said via Twitter on Wednesday, following a joint press conference with Trump in Mexico City,

However, Trump reaffirmed his pledge to build a wall on the country’s southern border with Mexico, as supporters chanted, “Build a wall”.

“They don’t know it yet, but they will pay for the wall,” he said of Mexico.

Earlier on Wednesday, protesters gathered in Mexico City as the presidential hopeful visited the country which he has derided as a source of rapists and criminals coming to the US.

Immigration has been a defining issue of Trump’s presidential campaign, with inflammatory comments about Latinos, Muslims and other minorities.