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Position Paper: Donald Trump on Immigration (2016 Election) - November 8, 2016

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Illegal immigrants and other non-citizens in our prisons and jails together had around 25,000 homicide arrests to their names. [United States Government Accountability Office, March 2011]

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Current immigration policy costs taxpayers $300 billion a year [National Review, Sept. 22, 2016]

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There are at least 2 million convicted criminal aliens now inside the country. [Center for Immigration Studies, Oct. 2013]

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Since 2013 alone, the Obama Administration has allowed 300,000 criminal aliens to return back into U.S. communities.

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Between 9/11 and the end of 2014, at least 380 foreign-born individuals were convicted in terror cases inside the United States. [ U.S. Senate Immigration Subcommittee, June 22, 2016]

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In the last five years, we've admitted nearly 100,000 immigrants from Iraq and Afghanistan -- in these two countries, according to Pew research, a majority of residents say that the barbaric practice of honor killings against women are often or sometimes justified. [ U.S. Department of Homeland Security, August 2016], [Pew Research Center, July 22, 2016]

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From the year 2008 through 2014, nearly 13,000 criminal aliens were released back into U.S. communities because their home countries would not take them back. [The Boston Globe, June 4, 2016]

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62 percent of households headed by illegal immigrants used some form of cash or non-cash welfare programs, like food stamps or housing assistance. [Center for Immigration Studies, Sept. 2015]

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Nearly 1 million illegal immigrants, including nearly 200,000 with criminal convictions, had been ordered deported but remain at large. [Washington Examiner, July 1, 2015]

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Between 2013 and 2015, the Obama Administration released over 86,000 criminal aliens from custody. In 2015 alone, ICE freed 19,723 criminal aliens, who had 64,197 convictions among them. These included 8,234 violent convictions and 208 homicide convictions. [Homeland Security Committee, Nov. 19, 2015]