Trump says he wants to get ‘bad hombres’ out of the U.S.
LAS VEGAS — Donald Trump defended his immigration plan against his rival, Hillary Clinton, Wednesday night, saying he wants to deport “bad hombres” from the country and accusing Clinton of being soft on the issue.
“We have some bad hombres here, and we’re going to get them out,” Trump said at the third and final presidential debate.
The Republican nominee accused Clinton of wanting to “give amnesty” to people who immigrated illegally to the United States. He also said insecure borders were contributing to the country’s heroin problem.
Clinton countered by pointing to Trump’s past statement that he would use a “deportation force” to round up 11 million undocumented immigrants in the country. “I think that’s an idea that would rip our country apart,” she said.
She also mocked Trump for his meeting with Mexico’s president, saying he “choked” and did not bring up his plan to make the country pay for his massive border wall.
Trump hit back, saying Clinton voted for a border security bill in 2006 that would have included a barrier on parts of the U.S.-Mexico border. “She never gets anything done, so naturally, it didn’t get built,” Trump said.
The back-and-forth continued. Clinton said she has supported border security as part of a larger plan to allow undocumented immigrants to become citizens so that they cannot be exploited by employers.
“Donald knows a lot about this — he used undocumented labor to build the Trump Tower,” she said. “I want to get everybody out of the shadows and not let employers like Donald exploit undocumented workers, which hurts them, but also hurts American workers.”
