Republican presidential candidate, Donald Trump, will allow illegal immigrants to stay in the U.S. on one condition — that they stay “productive.” The billionaire real estate mogul says that if he’s elected president, he’ll allow undocumented workers stay in America if they’re productive and not abusing the system by not contributing to it. Otherwise, he’d have them deported.
Trump tells TMZ that he’ll create a “system of merit” meaning that people here illegally should have “a road to legal status” if they work hard and make a contribution to the country. The presidential candidate explains that it’s unknown how many people live in he U.S. illegally, but he goes by different figures that predict there are somewhere between 11 and 30 million.
The seemingly hard-nosed businessman says it’s “unrealistic and inhumane to attempt to deport all of them,” TMZ reports. This where the merit system comes in. He realizes that many undocumented workers are “hardworking people” and they deserve an opportunity to live the “American dream.”
While Donald Trump didn’t detail his requirements for being “productive,” he said that people “who don’t pay their freight over a period of time have no place here,” TMZ writes.
Illegal immigrants who’ve committed crimes, and other “bad ones,” will instantly be denied American citizenship, according to Trump.
In a People report out on Friday, Trump was in the news for making disparaging comments about undocumented workers when it came to the high crime rate. He said that Mexican immigrants are “bringing drugs … they’re bringing crime … they’re rapists.”
As the article notes, Trump doesn’t feel he has anything to apologize for.
“There is nothing to apologize for. Many bad people are pouring through. I’m not saying just Mexican, many bad people. All you have to do is ask the border patrol. I don’t have a racist bone in my body. I’m just exposing things that everybody knows is happening, but nobody wants to talk about.”
As the Inquisitr recently reported following Trump’s comments, the Spanish-language TV station, Univision , revealed that it’s cutting its business ties with the Miss Universe Organization, one of many Trump owns.
NBC released a statement about the remarks made by Donald Trump and expressed that its opinions didn’t align with those of the controversial presidential candidate’s.
“Donald Trump’s opinions do not represent those of NBC, and we do not agree with his position on a number of issues, including his recent comments on immigration.”
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