--- title: Read Donald Trump's Speech on Immigration description: Donald Trump delivered a speech in Phoenix on Wednesday, focusing on immigration canonical: https://time.com/4475349/donald-trumps-speech-immigration-transcript/ author: Rishi Iyengar article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-09-01T03:56:46.000Z article:modified_time: 2024-01-24T12:29:10.000Z article:section: Politics og:title: Read Donald Trump's Speech on Immigration og:description: Donald Trump delivered a speech in Phoenix on Wednesday, focusing on immigration og:url: https://time.com/4475349/donald-trumps-speech-immigration-transcript/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3e8a2bdb8b1816fd/6988a477f887dc70d6e97437/gettyimages-598187170.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Donald Trump Speaks On Immigration At Rally In Phoenix og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Read Donald Trump's Speech on Immigration twitter:description: Donald Trump delivered a speech in Phoenix on Wednesday, focusing on immigration twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3e8a2bdb8b1816fd/6988a477f887dc70d6e97437/gettyimages-598187170.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Read Donald Trump's Speech on Immigration by [Rishi Iyengar](https://time.com/author/rishi-iyengar/) ## Rishi Iyengar Updated: Jan 24, 2024 12:29 PM UTCPublished: Sep 1, 2016 3:56 AM UTC  Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally on August 31, 2016 in Phoenix, Arizona. Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally on August 31, 2016 in Phoenix, Arizona.Ralph Freso—Getty Images by [Rishi Iyengar](https://time.com/author/rishi-iyengar/) ## Rishi Iyengar Updated: Jan 24, 2024 12:29 PM UTCPublished: Sep 1, 2016 3:56 AM UTC Donald Trump [delivered a speech in Phoenix](http://time.com/4475417/donald-trump-immigration-policy-mexico-deportation/) on Wednesday, after [meeting with Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto](http://time.com/4475088/donald-trump-mexico-enrique-pena-nieto/) in Mexico City earlier in the day. The Republican presidential nominee focused the remarks on his views on immigration, returning to the more hardline stance he’d taken during the Republican primary. Read the full speech below. --- > “” --- ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4475349/donald-trumps-speech-immigration-transcript/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4475349/donald-trumps-speech-immigration-transcript/"},"headline":"Read Donald Trump's Speech on Immigration","datePublished":"2016-09-01T03:56:46.000Z","dateModified":"2024-01-24T12:29:10.000Z","description":"'To fix our immigration system, we must change our leadership in Washington and we must change it quickly'","url":"https://time.com/4475349/donald-trumps-speech-immigration-transcript/","keywords":["2016 Election","2016 Election topic","Donald Trump"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3e8a2bdb8b1816fd/6988a477f887dc70d6e97437/gettyimages-598187170.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Rishi Iyengar","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/rishi-iyengar/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3e8a2bdb8b1816fd/6988a477f887dc70d6e97437/gettyimages-598187170.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Donald Trump Speaks On Immigration At Rally In Phoenix","caption":"Donald Trump Speaks On Immigration At Rally In Phoenix","creditText":"Ralph Freso—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/2016-election/","name":"2016 Election"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4475349/donald-trumps-speech-immigration-transcript/","name":"Read Donald Trump's Speech on Immigration"}}]}] ```