--- 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=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3000 og:image:height: 1688 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=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Read Donald Trump's Speech on Immigration > Sponsored content. 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Seeking to end confusion over his aggressive but recently muddled language on immigration, Donald Trump vowed to remove millions of people living in the country illegally if he becomes President._ 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 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. --- > “” --- ## Transcript This is the one, I think it's so great. It's hard to believe people don't even talk about it. Zero tolerance for criminal aliens, zero, zero. [ APPLAUSE ] Zero, they don't coming here, they don't coming here. We will begin moving them out. Day one as soon as I take office day one The police and law enforcement they know who these people are they live with these people they get mock by these people they can't do anything about these people and they want to. They know who these people are day one my first hour in office those people are gone. [ APPLAUSE ] And you can call deport it, if you want the press doesn't like that term. 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