Trump: Illegal immigrants killing "thousands of people"
By REBECCA KAPLAN CBS NEWS December 2, 2015, 12:16 PM
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump claimed Wednesday that "illegal immigrants are killing thousands of people."
Trump was appearing on Fox & Friends and talking about 17-year-old Jamiel Shaw, Jr., who was shot and killed in 2008 by a Mexican immigrant brought to the U.S. illegally as a child named Pedro Espinoza. Espinoza, who killed Shaw because he mistakenly believed he belonged to a rival gang, was sentenced to death in 2012.
Shaw's father, Jamiel Shaw, Sr., supports Trump's presidential campaign because of the businessman's positions on immigration.
"The gangbanger who shot my son was in this country illegally. He was not supposed to be here. If Donald Trump is elected president, illegals like the one who shot my son will not be allowed to live in our country," he wrote in an op-ed published in USA Today earlier this week.
Trump has promised that he will deport every immigrant living in the U.S. illegally if he is elected president.
"We're rounding 'em up in a very humane way, in a very nice way," he said on "60 Minutes" earlier this year. Some, he has said, will be allowed to return if they are "really good people."
Stopping illegal immigration has been a pillar of Trump's campaign since he announced his candidacy in June.
"When Mexico sends its people, they're not sending their best," Trump said. "They're sending people that have lots of problems...they're bringing drugs, they're bringing crime. They're rapists. And some, I assume, are good people."
The comments drew outrage from many corners, causing a number of companies to cut ties with him, including Macy's and NBC.
The cost to deport all 11.3 million undocumented immigrants was estimated by the liberal think tank Center for American Progress at $114 billion -- an average of $10,070 per person -- including "cost to detain these individuals while they wait for removal, to process them through the immigration courts, and to transport them abroad." The conservative American Action Forum's estimate was higher -- between $100 billion and $300 billion.
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Trump: Illegals Are Murdering 'By the Thousands'
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By Sandy Fitzgerald | Wednesday, 02 Dec 2015 09:25 AM
Donald Trump says illegal immigrants are murdering Americans "by the thousands," and it is one of the reasons he will keep targeting immigration this election cycle.
Trump made the comments during his interview on Fox News' "Fox and Friends" when asked about Jamiel Shaw, whose son was killed by an illegal immigrant. Shaw endorsed Trump.
"He's an amazing man," Trump said of Shaw. "His son was a good student, was so exceptional. He was probably going to go to Stanford on a full scholarship, football. He was a quarterback. He's a beautiful kid. His father loved him so much."
But that is just one story, Trump added. "This is happening by the thousands," Trump said.
"Illegal immigrants are killing thousands of people. It happened just recently in California, where a veteran, a 66-year-old veteran, female, raped, killed and sodomized by an illegal immigrant. It's so out of control."
In addition, he said illegal immigrants are "taking jobs, they're taking a lot of other things. I mean, the whole thing is ridiculous. We have to create a border and we have to build a wall. And the wall will work."
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