Donald Trumps plan to address illegal immigration.

Donald Trump's ascension as a political candidate began with a single issue,
ending illegal immigration. It grew as he touched a nerve on the American
electorate on other important issues and culminated with him becoming the
Republican nominee.

This week he gave his first detailed speech addressing the immigration
problem, including criminal aliens, the drug cartel, and millions of people
that flooded across our southern border.

Trump offered a 'ten point' plan with details which I had not previously
heard by any elected official or candidate.

Not surprisingly Trump was attacked. First that he "pivoted" from his
hardened statement, "We will build a wall and Mexico will pay for it",
the rallying cry from the very beginning. Trump's enemies, in and out
of the media, seized at yet another chance to bring him down.

Review this ten point plan which I edited for brevity. Take note of the
many areas Trump addresses well beyond and more complex than
simply building a wall.  Trump grasped more than "brick and mortar"
are required to stop illegal immigration.

Read and answer for yourselves whether Trump's approach has been
well thought out and thorough!

Number One:
Trump begins with saying we will build a wall along the southern border
and Mexico will pay for it, 100%!  It will be an intangible, physical, tall,
power, southern border wall using the best technology, including above
and below ground sensors above and below the existing tunnels. There
will be towers, aerial surveillance and manpower to  supplement the wall,
find and dislocate tunnels and keep out criminal  cartels and Mexico will
work with us. Trump believes Mexico wants to  solve this problem as much
as we do and they will have the ally Obama was not.

Number Two:
Trump will end "catch and release". Anyone who illegally crosses the border
will be detained until they are removed out of our country and sent back to
the country from which they came.

They'll be brought great distances, not dropped across our border. This is
what President Eisenhower did after he learned if they were only dropped
across the border they would return. They must be removed far away and
in the countries they came from.

Number Three:
Zero tolerance for criminal aliens.
Federal data indicates there are at least 2 million criminal aliens now inside
our country. Trump will begin moving them out day one using a joint
operation with local, state, and federal law enforcement that know who
these people are, then immediately begin to remove them. .

Detainers will be issued for illegal immigrants who are arrested for any
crime whatsoever, and they will be placed in immediate removal proceedings.
Trump will terminate the deadly, non-enforcement policies that allow
thousands of criminal aliens to freely roam our streets, and commit crimes.

Trump says since 2013 the Obama administration has allowed 300,000
criminal aliens to return back into United States communities. They are
individuals encountered or identified by ICE, but who were not detained
or processed for deportation.

Trump's plan includes cooperating closely with local jurisdictions to remove
criminal aliens immediately, restore highly successful Secure Communities
Program.

Trump will expand and revitalize popular 287(g) partnerships, that helps to
identify hundreds of thousands of deportable aliens in local jails that we
don't even know about. These programs were gutted by this administration,
even though they worked in the past.

Trump will ask Congress to pass Kate's Law, named for Kate Steinle,
ensuring criminal aliens convicted of illegal reentry receive strong
mandatory minimum sentences. Then, deport them.

Another reform, passage of legislation, named for Det. Michael Davis and
Deputy Sheriff Danny Oliver, law enforcement officers killed by a previously
deported illegal immigrant. 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.

Trump will triple the number of ICE deportation officers. Within ICE he'll
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.

Trump will hire 5,000 more Border Patrol agents and put more of them
on border instead of behind desks and expand the number of border
patrol stations significantly.

Number Four:
Block funding for sanctuary cities.  Trump will end the sanctuary cities that
have resulted in so many needless deaths. Cities that refuse to cooperate
with federal authorities will not receive taxpayer dollars, and 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,
terminate President Obama's two illegal executive amnesties in which he
defied federal law and the Constitution to give amnesty to approximately
five million illegal immigrants.

All immigration laws will be enforced. As with law enforcement activity,
priorities will be set. The ICE and Border Patrol officers will be allowed
to do their jobs the way their jobs are supposed to be done.

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. Our enforcement
priorities will include removing criminals, gang members, security threats,
visa overstays, etc.

Number Six:
Suspend the issuance of visas to any place where adequate screening cannot
occur. The Senate Subcommittee on Immigration states between 9/11 and
the end of 2014, at least 380 foreign born individuals were convicted in
terror cases inside the United States and even right now the largest number
of people under investigation for exactly this that we've ever had in the
history of our country.

Trump will ask the State Dept., Homeland Security and Dept. 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 are put in place. He calls it
extreme vetting, rather than the 'rubber stamping' vetting occurring now.
It will be tough.

Countries in which immigration will be suspended would include places like
Syria and Libya. Trump will halt tens of thousands of people coming in from
Syria as we have no idea who they are, where they come from. There's no
documentation or paperwork.

The price of resettling, one refugee in the United States, 12 could be
resettled  in a safe zone in their home region. We have to build safe zones
and paid by Gulf states.

Another reform involves new screening tests for all applicants that include,
especially if you want to get the right people. 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.

In the last five years, we've admitted nearly 100,000 immigrants from Iraq
and Afghanistan, two countries according to Pew Research, where a majority
of residents say barbaric practice of honor killings against women are often
or sometimes justified.

Applicants will be asked their views about honor killings, respect for women
and gays and minorities and attitudes on radical Islam and other topics will
be part of this vetting procedure.

Number Seven:
Insure other countries take their people back when ordered deported.
There are at least 23 countries refuse to take their people back after
they've been ordered to leave the United States.Including large numbers
of violent criminals, they won't take them back.

Due to a Supreme Court decision, if these violent offenders cannot be sent
home, law enforcement officers release them into your communities, leading
to horrific results.

Yet despite the existence of a law that commands this, the Secretary of
State ignored the law and refuses to use this powerful tool to bring nations
into compliance. The result was the release of thousands of dangerous
criminal aliens who should have been sent home to their countries.

The Boston Globe reports from the year 2008 to 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.
Those released include individuals convicted of killings, sexual assaults,
and some of the most heinous crimes imaginable. The Globe writes a review
of 323 criminals released in New England from 2008 to 2012 found that
as many as 30 percent committed new offenses, including rape, attempted
murder, and child molestation. We will no longer allow them to stay.

Number Eight:
Complete bio-metric entry-exit visa tracking system we need desperately.
Congress had required bio-metric entry-exit visa tracking systems, but it
has never been completed. We will ensure that this system is in place. And,
it will be on land, it will be on sea, it will be in air, a proper tracking system.

Approximately half of new illegal immigrants came on temporary visas and
then never,ever left. 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 would be a high priority
and would  have assisted law enforcement and intelligence officials in August
 and September in 2001 in conducting a search for two of the 9/11 hijackers
were in the United States expired visas.

Last year alone nearly half a million individuals overstayed their temporary
visas. Removing these overstays will be a top priority of my administration.
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.

Immigration law doesn't exist for the purpose of keeping criminals out.
It exists to protect all aspects of American life. The work site, the
welfare office, the education system, and everything else.

That is why immigration limits are established in the first place. We will
enforce all of our immigration laws. And the same goes for govt. benefits.

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. 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 Ten:
We will reform legal immigration to serve the best interests of America and
its workers, the forgotten  people. We're going to take care of our workers.

We've admitted 59 million immigrants to the United States between 1965
and 2015. Many of these arrivals have greatly enriched our country. But
we have an obligation to them and to their children to control future
immigration as we are following.

To ensure assimilation we want to ensure that it works. Assimilation,
an important  word. Integration and upward mobility. 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. To select immigrants  based
on their likelihood of success in U.S. society and their ability to be
 financially self- sufficient. We will no longer "take anybody"! 

We will choose immigrants based on merit. Merit, skill, and proficiency.
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.

We need a system that serves our needs, not the needs of others, it's
called America first.

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. We've had outdated immigration rules from decades ago.

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. We wouldn't put
our entire federal budget on auto pilot for decades, so why should we do
the same for the very, very complex subject of immigration?

In summation, Trump offers a well thought out plan, which shows he has
spoken with professionals in different agencies at the state and federal level.

Its encouraging to see a plan which talks about more than "11 million"
illegals, it addresses the needs of our country as well.




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