HOUSTON - U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump on Tuesday night repeated his immigration policy of building a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border and speeding up deportations of illegal immigrants.
Speaking at a rally in the Texas capital city of Austin, Trump pledged to build a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border, make Mexico pay for it, unleash federal border patrol officers and, first and foremost, adhere to the rule of law -- a clear and disapproving reference to U.S. President Barack Obama's executive orders protecting certain immigrants from deportation, according to local daily the Dallas Morning News.
In a Fox News taping in Austin, Trump said: "We are going to build a wall. Yeah, 100 percent. It's so simple."
"(Former U.S. President George W.) Bush and even Obama sent people back so we can be more aggressive with that, but we can follow the laws," he said.
The Republican presidential candidate, however, sounded more sympathetic to hard-working immigrants who entered the United States illegally but have been since law-abiding and productive.
Asked if he would accommodate those people if he is elected president, Trump said that he would try. (Xinhua)