MOSCOW (Sputnik) — Trump, along with several other Republican Party candidates, campaigns on strict measures to curb illegal immigration, including the construction of a US-Mexico border wall. Trump, when announcing his presidential candidacy in mid-June, claimed that Mexican immigrants fuel crime in the United States.
Ohio Gov. John Kasich and Jeb Bush, the former Florida governor, disagreed with Trump's proposals to deport 11 million illegal immigrants in a TV debate Tuesday, stating the plan was inapplicable and alienating, local media reported.
Trump insisted that the border wall must be built and declared that illegal immigration damages the US economy.
Tens of thousands of illegal immigrants cross the US-Mexico border every year. A July 2014 study by the Pew Research Center found that about 11.7 million illegal immigrants reside in the United States, of which over 50 percent are estimated to have arrived via the Mexico border.
