Donald Trump (Immigration)

Trump's Jobs and Business Policy (section page):

FiveThirtyEight did a good job gathering a lot of immigration data mentioned by Trump and then explaining it. Read it here.

• Deport nearly 12 million illegal immigrants. (DTS) [1]
• Illegal Immigrants lead to higher crime in the country. (DTI) (ABC News - Jan 17) [2]
• " You look at your gov -- you look at Baltimore, you look at Ferguson, you look at lot of these places, a lot of these gangs -- and the most vicious -- are illegals. They're out of here. First day, I will send them people -- we. Those guys are out of here." (DTS)
• "Well, it's costing us $130 billion a year and that's peanuts compared to what the real cost is, George, for the way we have it now." (DTI) [3]

US-Mexico

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• Mexico must pay for a wall along US-Mexico border[5]. Until they do, United States will enact the following policy measures (DTW):
  • Impound all remittance payments derived from illegal wages (DTW)
  • Increase fees on all temporary visas issued to Mexican CEOs and diplomats (and if necessary cancel them) (DTW)
  • Increase fees on all border crossing cards – of which we issue about 1 million to Mexican nationals each year (a major source of visa overstays) (DTW)
  • Increase fees on all NAFTA worker visas from Mexico (another major source of overstays) (DTW)
  • Increase fees at ports of entry to the United States from Mexico (Tariffs and foreign aid cuts are also options) (DTW)
• Wall estimated to cost ~$20 billion [6]

• Triple the number of ICE officers (DTW)
• Nationwide e-verify (DTW)
• Mandatory return of all criminal aliens (DTW)
• Defund sanctuary cities (cities not following federal law on immigration) (DTW)
• End birthright citizenship (DTW)

• Increase wage for H-1B Visas (DTW)
  • Trump argues low wages of immigrants for STEM-related careers displace domestic workers and minority workers in STEM fields. (DTW)
  • Require American companies to hire domestic workers first [yes, but how?] (DTW)
    • Trump proposes a waiting period of no new green cards being issued to foreign workers so that American corporations will hire domestic labor. (DTW)
• Reduce funding to refugee programs. (DTW)
  • Spend that money on at-risk inner-city youth instead. (DTW)