WASHINGTON (dpa-AFX) - Republican White House aspirant Donald Trump addressed an election campaign rally in Austin, Texas, Tuesday night to draw national attention to his call for border security as well as the need for a Special Prosecutor to investigate Hillary Clinton's alleged misuse of the State Department to benefit the Clinton Foundation while she was the Secretary of State.
Talking to an audience in the state bordering Mexico, Trump insisted that his administration will build a wall to stem the flow of illegal immigrants so that the law can be enforced, Americans' jobs and wages are protected, and to keep the country safe.
According to the Texas government, nearly 200,000 illegal immigrants were booked into Texas jails between 2011 and 2016. Collectively, those arrested were responsible for more than half a million criminal offenses, including homicides, sexual assault charges and burglary.
Trump said he wants to create safe zones in the Middle East. 'My plan suspends visas when we can't perform effective screening, and it puts forward a new ideological screening program to keep out people from our country who don't support our values.'
In a scathing attack on what the Trump Campaign dubbed as the State Department's 'Pay-For-Play Scandal under Hillary Clinton,' Trump said, 'If our Secretary of State can be bought, or bribed, or sell or trade government favors, then the whole American system is threatened.'
Wednesday, Trump returns to the battleground state of Florida where he will have two Tampa-area events, and he will spend Friday campaigning in Nevada.
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