Trump talks tough on immigration

Washington, Aug 17: If he becomes president, Donald Trump would repeal a law granting citizenship to all US-born children, put stricter limits on legal immigration and force Mexico to pay for a wall on its border. The frontrunner Republican presidential candidate outlined his immigration policy in a nearly 1,900-word policy paper Sunday on an issue that has become a key plank of his campaign. Trump's immigration plan is based on three core principles: that the US must build a wall across the US-Mexico border, that immigration laws must be fully enforced and that "any immigration plan must improve jobs, wages and security for all Americans." It calls for requiring a nationwide system to verify workers' legal status, tripling the number of immigrations and customs enforcement agents and implementing a tracking system to identify people who overstay their visas. Trump also vowed to reverse a US law that grants American citizenship to any child born in the US regardless of whether the child's parents are illegal immigrants. He also called for suspending the issuance of any new green cards, writing, "there will be a pause where employers will have to hire from the domestic pool of unemployed immigrant and native workers."