Donald Trump has started giving his long-awaited immigration speech in Phoenix tonight after touching down in the U.S. after a surprise visit to Mexico.
Trump launched into his immigration policy discussion by saying that the focus should be on improving the lives of Americans and their security.
"When politicians talk about immigration reform, they usually mean the following: amnesty, open borders, lower wages, immigration reform. [It] should mean something else entirely. It should mean improvements to our laws and policies, to make life better for American citizens. But if we're going to make our immigration system work, then we have to be prepared to talk honestly and without fear about these important and very sensitive issues," Trump said.
Trump has been talking about his campaign's immigration policy for more than a week and had been touting the speech in Phoenix for days before announcing the trip to Mexico late Tuesday night.
Trump listed a number of cases where Americans had been attacked or killed by illegal immigrants, which Trump used as an arguments against open borders.
"Countless Americans who have died in recent years would be alive today if not for the open border policies of this administration and the administration that causes this horrible, horrible thought process. It is called Hillary Clinton," he said.
"We also have to be honest about the fact that not everyone who seeks to join our country will be able to successfully assimilate. Sometimes it is not going to work out. It is our right as a sovereign nation to choose immigrants that we think are the likeliest to thrive and flourish and love us," Trump said.
He referenced the trip to Mexico at the start of his speech, saying that he had just "returned from a very important and special meeting" with Mexican president Enrique Pena Nieto, who Trump said "truly loves his country, Mexico."
"It was a thoughtful and substantive conversation and it will go on for a while, and in the end, we're all going to win. Both countries -- we're all going to win," Trump said.
Sen. Jeff Sessions and former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who both flew to Mexico with Trump earlier in the day, addressed the crowd before Gov. Mike Pence introduced Trump at tonight's event.
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