Trump addresses the crisis of illegal immigration: "We will not allow our generosity to be abused" | Video

THE PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Thank you very much everyone, enjoy it and have a good afternoon. I would like to inform the American people of the crisis on the southern border and the current crisis. Illegal immigration affects the lives of all Americans.

Illegal immigration harms American workers, puts American taxpayers on the line, harms public safety, and places enormous demands on schools, hospitals and communities in general, depriving the most precious resources of the poorest Americans. ASSET: Clandestine immigration costs our country billions and billions of dollars each year. America is a welcoming country. And under my guidance, it's a welcoming country. We are by far the world leaders in humanitarian protection and assistance. There is not even anyone close. We have the largest and largest immigration programs in the world. We have issued 40 million green cards since 1970, which means permanent residence and the path of citizenship for many people. But we will not allow our generosity to be abused by those who violate our laws, defy our rules, violate our borders, illegally enter our country. We will not allow it.

Uncontrolled mass immigration is particularly unfair to the many wonderful law-abiding immigrants who are already living here and who have followed the rules and waited in their turn. Some have been waiting for many years. Some have been waiting for a long time. They have done everything perfectly and they will arrive. At some point, they will arrive. Many cases very soon.

We need them to come because we have companies coming into our country, they need workers, but they have to be merit-based, and they will be based on merit. Communities often have to bear the costs and influx of people entering illegally. We can not allow that. There is a limit to the number of people that a country can absorb responsibly in their societies.

Every day, beyond our existing legal admission programs, approximately 1,500 to 2,000 people are trying to illegally cross our borders. We are doing a very good job considering the fact that the laws are so bad. They are not archaic, they are incompetent. It's not that they're old, they're just bad, and we can not get any votes from Democrats to change them. Only Republicans are in unison, they want to change them. They want to make strong borders. They want to get rid of all crimes because of the borders, of which there are many, and we have done a great job with the laws we have.

We are transporting a considerable number of people to eliminate MS-13 gangs and other gangs that are illegally entering our country, and we are eliminating them in the thousands, but this is a dangerous situation and threatens to become even more dangerous as our economy is better off. better. This problem is largely due to the fact that we currently have the strongest economy in the world. It's better than any economy in the world. Jobs, unemployment, you look at any number.

At present, we have more workers than ever before in the history of our country, more people are working, which is a great statement. more people working than ever in the history of our country. And people want to come, and in some cases, they want to enjoy it. And it does not matter, and we want them to come in, but they have to come in by merit. They must enter legally.

Right now, large, well-organized migrant caravans are heading to our southern border. Some people call it an invasion. It's like an invasion. They violently invaded the Mexican border. You saw that two days ago. They are difficult people in many cases; Many young men, strong men and men that we may not want in our country, but, again, we will find out through the legal process. But they invaded the Mexican police and invaded and seriously injured Mexican soldiers.

So, this is not an innocent group of people. This is a large number of people who are difficult. They hurt, attacked, and the Mexican police and army actually suffered, and I appreciate what Mexico is trying to do.

So let me start by saying that these illegal caravans will not be allowed in the United States and that they should turn around now because they are wasting their time. They should ask to enter our country. We want them to enter our country a lot. We need people to help us with all these businesses that are coming. We have never had anything like it. We have automakers coming. We have Foxconn so involved in manufacturing Apple products in Wisconsin.

Many companies arrive, but they have to apply and have to be great people who will love our country and work hard. And we have already sent for the border, the US military, and they will do the work. They are currently preparing and getting ready. We hope nothing will happen, but if that happens, we are totally prepared. TRUMP: The biggest army in the world, and she's going to be – and is now – in top form, no longer exhausted as she was when I took the presidency of the United States.

The Government of Mexico has generously offered asylum, jobs, education and medical care to the members of the caravan. But many members of the caravan have refused these offers, demonstrating that these migrants are not legitimate asylum seekers. They are not looking for protection because if they could, they could get it from Mexico. Mexico agreed to welcome them and encouraged them to stay but they do not want to stay, they want to come to the United States. So, this is no longer security, and the asylum is a security issue.

The asylum is not a program for those living in poverty. Billions of people around the world live on the threshold of poverty; the United States can not absorb them all. Asylum is a very special protection intended only for people fleeing governmental persecution based on race, religion or other protected status.

These caravans and illegal migrants are attracted to our country by laws supported by the Democrats and judicial decisions of the left. We get decisions that are so ridiculous, so bad. They write the laws, you can not do that. Collectively known as "catch and release", it's a – it's a shame we have to endure.

These policies result in the release of illegal aliens into our communities after their arrest, but we do not let them go. Big change from a few days ago, we will not go out anymore. We will catch; we will not release. They will stay with us until the expulsion hearing or the asylum hearing. We do not release them in the community.

We have millions of people who over the years have been released into the community. They never show up at their trials. They never come back. They are never seen again. And these people, they know who they are – and we know a lot about where they are, who they are – and these people will be deported, directly deported.

The biggest loophole that attracts illegal aliens to our borders is the use of fraudulent or unfounded asylum applications to enter our great country. A stranger simply crosses the border illegally, finds a border police officer and uses language well framed by the lawyers and other people who stand there and – trying to get paid fees or anything from them. other – they are given a sentence to read.

They have never heard of the sentence before, they do not believe in the sentence. But they are given a little legal statement to read and they read it, and now, suddenly, they are supposed to qualify. But that is not the reason they are here. This only asserts the need for asylum, which is then often released in the United States, and they expect a lengthy court process. The judicial process will sometimes take years before they are present.

Well, we do not release them anymore in our country. They will wait for long periods. We set up massive cities of tents; the army helps us incredibly well. I want to thank the Army Corps of Engineers, so good and so talented.

We have thousands of tents. We have a lot of tents. We have a lot of everything (ph). We will hold them there. We do not let them enter our country.

And then they never show up, almost, it's like a three percent level. They never show up for the trial. So, at the time of the trial, they are no longer there, no one knows where they are. But we know where many of them are and they will be expelled.
There are now nearly 700,000 foreigners in the United States waiting for their claims to be settled. Most of these people have no idea how they got there or why they went there. This number will actually be much larger if we look at all the data. So, if you look – just a minimal number, it's the size of Vermont or more. And the total number could be 10 million people, from 12 million people to 20 million people. The archives of the previous administrations have not been very well preserved. TRUMP: While human smugglers and traffickers have learned to play the game and master the system, we have seen a staggering increase of 1,700 asylum applications since 2010.

They understand the law better than lawyers. You have a lot of professionalism there, you involve a lot of professionalism in setting up caravans, you watch how that goes.

Even countries, you look at Honduras and El Salvador and you look at what is happening at different levels and different countries and what is happening on the street.

There is a lot of professionalism. And there seems to be a lot of money going on. And then all of a sudden these big caravans are forming and starting up. They have a long way to go.

On average, once released, the processing of an asylum application takes three and a half years. Think about it, someone enters our country, reads a statement from a lawyer and we have a three and a half year lawsuit for one person.

While other people tell them to go out, to go out, to go out. Other countries, go out. We have a border, go out. We are going through years and years of litigation because of the very, very stupid, incompetent democrats and laws we have.

They are the laughing stock of the whole world, including the people who parade, they understand. But the difference is that we do not let them in, that we do not release it and that we do not do anything that has been done for so many years and that is really terrible for our country.

The vast majority of applications are rejected by the courts but at that time, the foreigner has generally long since disappeared in our country. So, they can never see the judge, they never have a decision.

They do not care because they are in the country and nobody knows where they are. In total, about 1 million foreigners have received the final order of reference. In fact, they have final removal orders, you no longer have to go to court.

The courts have already issued removal orders, and we have received a lot of them, but they are still on the run in this country. So we make them go out. This rampant abuse of the asylum system is changing our immigration system by displacing legitimate asylum seekers.

And there are legitimate asylum seekers, while rewarding those who abuse or defraud our system, which is almost everyone. Everyone is abusing it and only changing our system, which was unthinkable, I am convinced, even by the Democrats, who are largely responsible for carrying out this project.

These individuals do not respect the foundations of the American government by voluntarily choosing to break the law as a first act on American soil. In addition, the flow of illicit and deadly narcotics is included in this gigantic flow of illegal immigration to our southwestern border.

It is in the southwest that most of it arrives. Nearly 100% of the heroin in the United States passes through the southern border. Think about it, almost 100% of the heroin passes through the southern border with about 90% of cocaine and the majority of methamphetamine and a substantial part of fentanyl, an extremely lethal drug, that kills our youth.

Fentanyl kills our youth. These drugs are destroying lives and killing well over 70,000 Americans every year, and their numbers are increasing because our laws are so stupid that we allow this to happen.

Each year, the equivalent of a number of casualties equivalent to the size of a US city, the current influx, if it has stopped, threatens to overwhelm our system of d & # 39; Immigration in our communities and represents an unacceptable danger for the entire nation.

Have our borders. You can not let drugs in. Not just – they are not people, they are people, they are drugs, they are human traffickers. Trafficking in human beings is now at the highest level in the world, thanks to the Internet.

Think about it, human trafficking, you think 200 years, 500 years, human trafficking – where they steal children, unfortunately in many cases, women. They steal women. They are traffickers of human beings, the lowest foam in the world. The worst scum in the world, and it's on a level such that it's never been global – never to a level like this. If these caravans are allowed to enter our country, only more important and bold advances will follow and you will see that this is happening now.

We have one approaching and it is somewhat dispelled as the protesters walk, but then other people join him, then he expands. And now, if you look at Honduras and El Salvador, others are solving and forming, they are forming. You have new ones being formed, and we call that caravan number two, is incredibly brutal, people. Very, very difficult for the military to stop. Our military will not have a problem, but very, very hard. Mexico is going through a very difficult time.

Once there, the Democratic Party's vision is to provide free health care, free social assistance, free education and even the right to vote. You and the bitter members of our country will be invited to take the entire tab. That's what happens. Medical, and in many cases, they have big medical problems before arriving here. No nation can afford to be overwhelmed by uncontrolled masses of people rushing to the border. That's what happens.

They are rushing our border. They arrive, and even before you get to the caravan, every day people come in, and that's a very bad thing for our country. It's sad in many ways, but it's a very bad thing for our country. And, again, it costs us billions, billions and billions of dollars a year.

And I will take all the legal measures at my disposal to deal with this crisis, and that is what we do. The US military, great people. My administration is finalizing a plan to end the widespread abuse of our asylum system. It is abusive to transport the dangerous influx and establish control over the sovereign borders of the United States, as well as borders (ph).

And once that control is defined, standardized and made very strong, including the construction of the wall that we have already started. $ 1.6 billion spent last year, $ 1.6 billion this year. We will have another 1.6 coming, but we want to build it at the same time. If you do not do it, it just turns people in a different direction. We want to build it at the same time.

Under this plan, foreigners in an irregular situation will no longer be able to enter our country freely by filing unjustified applications in their application for asylum. Instead, asylum-seeker migrants will have to present themselves legally at an entry point, so that they will have to report legally to an entry point.

Those who choose to violate our laws and illegally enter will no longer be able to use unfounded applications to be automatically admitted to our country. We will keep them for a long time if necessary. The only long-term solution to the crisis and the only way to ensure the sustainability of our nation as a sovereign country is that the Congress overcomes the open obstruction at the borders.

That's exactly what it is. It's an obstruction of open borders. No vote. You can develop the biggest plan at the border, the largest immigration plan. You will not get a vote from a Democrat. They have a terrible policy, in many cases they are terrible politicians, but the only thing for which I give them great credit, they vote en bloc, they remain united. And we will end up catching and freeing. We do not release anymore. TRUMP: We also have to finish the job we started being strong at the border. When we are strong at the border, people will turn away and not be bored. You will see it in a year or certainly in a while, despite our very good economy, that some of them come for that, you can not blame them, they have to do it legally. But you will see that the number of people trying to register will be considerably reduced, but that can only happen if we are strong at the border. And the southern border is a big problem and it is a huge problem because drugs come in droves, destroy our young people and really destroy the fabric of our country.

There has never been a drug problem like today. And as I said, much of it comes from the southern border.

In the meantime, I will fulfill my sacred obligation to protect our country and defend the United States of America. And this is a defense of our country. We have no choice. We have the choice We will defend our borders. we will defend our country.

Thank you so much.

QUESTION: Mr. President, (inaudible)

QUESTION: Mr. President, what happens to the children – if you stop putting end to end, free yourself, what happens to these children? Do they stay in these tent cities?

TRUMP: We work on a system where they stay together. But, well, I will say that in doing that, a considerable number of people, you know, and under the Obama plan, you can separate the kids. They have never done anything about it, nobody talks about it. But under President Obama, they separated children from their parents. In fact, we said it so that it does not happen.

But what happens when you do this is that you receive a considerable number of people. It's almost like an incentive to – when they learn that they are not going to be separated, they come back often. But President Obama separated the children from their parents and no one complained. When we applied exactly the same law, our country went crazy.

So we will continue and try to continue what we are doing, but it is a great incentive for people to try. But it will be very difficult for people to enter our country. So we think we can do it.

QUESTION: How do you envision (ph) …

QUESTION: (Inaudible) did he shoot at any of these people (ph)? Could you see (ph) …

TRUMP: I hope not. I hope not. It is the army. I hope – I hope that there will not be any.

But I'm going to tell you this, anyone who throws stones, stones, as in Mexico and the Mexican army, to the Mexican police where they have seriously injured the police and soldiers of Mexico, we will consider this as a weapon on fire because there is not much difference when you are touched. in the face with a rock – which, as you know, was very violent a few days ago, very violent. This introduction – it was an introduction to a country – they broke into Mexico.

And you look at what is happening in Guatemala – just to mention Guatemala – with El Salvador and Honduras. It is a shame that these countries can not stop it, because they should be able to do it before it starts. And the United States is paying them a fortune and we are considering not doing it anymore because why should we do it when they do not do anything for us? You know (ph).

QUESTION: Mr. Chairman, can you clarify …

TRUMP: Jeff (ph). Jeff (ph), go ahead.

QUESTION: Mr. Chairman, how will this plan be legal given current law?

TRUMP: Oh, it's totally legal. No, it's legal. We stop people at the border. It's an invasion and nobody disputes it.

QUESTION: But regarding your asylum change plans, are you going to do it by decree, or?

TRUMP: No, no. You do not have to – you do not have to release. You can – you can hold. The problem is that to retain people, you need huge facilities. It's the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard. In other countries, they regret not being able to enter. With us, we take their name, take their phone number, take their – everything, and say good luck; only because we do not have the means to hold people back.

But we are building the facilities now. We build a lot of tents and we will hold them in tents. But you do not have to – you do not have to release (inaudible). They only released them because they could not afford to detain them.

QUESTION: Mr. President is here as an executive order that you will publish …

TRUMP: We will make a decree during the next week, yes

(CROSSTALK)

QUESTION: (Inaudible) with a release to the water and asylum?

TRUMP: It'll end – it'll talk about everything. It will be pretty complete …

QUESTION: Mr. President …

TRUMP: … a lot of things we talked about today.

QUESTION: … Mr. President, you are talking in tents about these family units that would arrive …

TRUMP: Well, we also have other facilities.

QUESTION: … and hold the children? But will be …

TRUMP: But what has happened is that we have so many facilities – so many people that our facilities are submerged. And we set up temporary facilities. Ultimately, people will no longer come when they will realize that they can not pass.

QUESTION: … So are they going to keep the children in these tents with their parents?

TRUMP: We will hold the family and the children together. Remember that President Obama has separated children from families. All I did was adopt the same law, and then I softened the law. But by relaxing the law, many people arrive without this happening when there has been separation.

(CROSSTALK)

QUESTION: Mr. President, what do you say to critics who think it's a political affair before mid-term? And…

TRUMP: There is nothing political about a caravan of thousands of people – and now others who are forming – pouring into our country. We have no idea who they are. All we know is that they are rather tough people when they can blow up the Mexican army and police. They are pretty hard people. Even Mexico said, wow, these are tough people.

I do not want them in our country. And women do not want them in our country, they want security. Men do not want them in our country, but women do not want them. Women want security. You look at what women are looking for, they want security, they do not want to have these people in the country and they will not be in our country. It's a very big thing.

QUESTION: Mr. President, when you talk about finalizing an abolition plan for asylum, is there a plan that will be included in this decree?

TRUMP: No, no. People will have the opportunity to ask for asylum, but if you check the records, few people are allowed to stay once in court, but what happens is that they will they have used the asylum – first of all, lawyers and other people told them what to say. Read this statement. You have read this statement and now you are asking for asylum. All this is ridiculous and – and we will not accept it.

QUESTION: President Trump, US law and international law say that people who have valid claims have the right to seek asylum, so why would they …

TRUMP: They will go to court. They will go to court, as crazy as it may seem. They'll go – excuse me, excuse me, ready? They will go to court, and a judge will decide, but generally, when they go to court, they are deported. It just seems like most people are deported once they're gone. The problem is that they never end up going to court because when they come in, they are told to come back in a year for a trial and they disappear in the United States never to be seen again. But we will be …

QUESTION: But the current law says nothing about detaining people in detention.

TRUMP: … and they are expelled noticed. We will expel these people.

QUESTION: What about the law, will you change the law?

QUESTION: … throwing rock …

TRUMP: We will consider that the maximum we can consider that. Because they throw stones violently and violently. You saw that three days ago, really hurting the army. We will not support it. They want to throw stones at our armed forces, our military forces are fighting back. We will examine – and I told them that it was a rifle. When they throw stones as they did to the army and police in Mexico, I say that it is a rifle. Jeff?

QUESTION: A separate subject, sir. Did you propose to Heather Nauert the post of ambassador of the United States?

TRUMP: She is seriously taken into account, she is excellent and she has been with us for a long time. She's been a partisan for a long time and she's really excellent. So she's very serious – we'll probably make a decision next week. Many people want work and a lot of great people. Mais nous en reparlerons la semaine prochaine.

QUESTION: Avez-vous vu les commentaires d'Oprah Winfrey aujourd'hui?

TRUMP: Non, je ne l'ai pas fait, qu'est-ce qu'elle a dit?

QUESTION: Elle faisait campagne en Géorgie au même moment que le vice-président Pence.

TRUMP: Au même titre que …

QUESTION: Au même moment, le vice-président Pence encourageait les gens à voter.

TRUMP: C'est bon. Ecoute, j'étais sur la semaine dernière d'Oprah – la semaine dernière de son émission. Oprah m'a beaucoup aimé. J'ai toujours aimé Oprah. Oprah est bon. Mais la femme qu'elle soutient n'est pas qualifiée pour être le gouverneur de la Géorgie par un effort d'imagination. Je serai en Géorgie dans les prochains jours, les prochains jours. Et nous avons un énorme – autour de Macon, nous avons déjà une foule formidable. Personne n'a autant de monde que nous parce que les gens veulent voir un grand gouverneur de Géorgie. Et je pense que Brian va être un grand gouverneur de Géorgie, je pense qu'il va être un gouverneur fantastique, il est totalement qualifié.

Elle n'est pas qualifiée pour être gouverneur de Géorgie. Non qualifié. Et la Géorgie est un grand État, un très grand État. Jetez un coup d'oeil, jetez un coup d'œil, regardez son passé, son histoire, ce qu'elle veut faire et ce qu'elle a en tête pour l'État. Cet état sera très gros problème très rapidement. Et le peuple de Géorgie ne veut pas ça.

QUESTION: Sur l'intégrité des élections, pouvez-vous affirmer que …

TRUMP: Je viens de rencontrer – je viens de rencontrer le FBI, Chris, le ministère de la Justice et le secrétaire Nielsen. Ils ont consacré beaucoup de temps, d'efforts et d'argent à s'assurer que tout ce qui concerne les élections dans cinq jours soit parfait et sûr. Si effet et sûr – parfait et sécuritaire.

J'espère qu'il n'y aura pas d'interférence non, de falsification, rien. Nous avons passé beaucoup de temps – maintenant, le président Obama a eu la chance de le faire en septembre 2016, mais il a choisi de ne pas le faire car il pensait qu'Hillary Clinton allait gagner. Et bien que tout le monde s'accorde à dire que cela n'a pas du tout affecté le vote, il aurait néanmoins pu faire des choses qui auraient probablement rendu les choses plus évidentes, un peu plus claires. Cependant, le FBI lui avait dit en septembre, avant les élections de 16, qu'il risquait de s'immiscer ou de s'interposer, et il n'y faisait rien, il ne l'a pas fait parce qu'il pensait qu'Hillary Clinton gagnerait. D'accord. Un de plus.

QUESTION: (OFF-MIKE)

TRUMP: Je pense que nous allons très bien faire lors des élections. Je dois vous dire que si vous regardez les courses, si vous regardez le Sénat, ce qui est très important, évidemment – je pars aujourd’hui, je serai dans le Missouri, et je vais aborder plusieurs endroits au cours des cinq prochains jours. Mais je pense que nous nous en tirons très bien au Sénat et à la Chambre. Le seul problème, à la Chambre, il y a tellement de monde. J'aimerais m'arrêter pour l'un d'eux, mais il y a tellement de monde.

Mais je pense que nous nous en tirons très bien à la Chambre. Je pense que les gens veulent aujourd'hui des frontières fortes, je pense qu'ils veulent la sécurité, ils veulent de bons soins de Je ne veux pas que leurs impôts augmentent, nous les diminuons. Nous avons annoncé hier que vous aviez probablement entendu, selon Kevin Brady, une réduction de l'impôt, nous souhaitons une réduction de l'impôt sur le revenu moyen de 10%.

Les démocrates voulaient – je veux dire doubler vos impôts, dans certains cas, vous devrez payer trois fois ce que vous payez actuellement pour obtenir de mauvais soins de santé. Et donc, ce que nous faisons, c’est quelque chose que les gens veulent, et je pense que nous allons très bien nous en sortir lors des élections, même si l’histoire dit que quel que soit le président, quel qu’en soit le président, il en va tout autrement. Cela semble certainement être le cas. Mais personne n’a jamais été président, c’est la plus grande économie de l’histoire du pays. C'est la plus grande économie de l'histoire de notre pays. Ce sont les chiffres les plus élevés du chômage et de l’emploi dans l’histoire de notre pays. Personne n'a jamais eu ça avec lequel faire campagne. Moi aussi. Merci beaucoup à tous, je l'apprécie. Thank you.