President Trump takes a question about immigration from an auto worker who was just laid off from Detroit Diesel. "We are going to CLOSE the border."
Video transcript
-My name is Nico. I'm from Plymouth, Michigan. Last week, I was laid off at Detroit Diesel. I was an assembler on the line building diesel engines made in the USA. And my question is about immigration. Illegal immigrants are hurting American workers like me who are just starting off. How will you stop this invasion? -Well, very easy. We're gonna close the wall or we're gonna close the border. You know, we built -- I built hundreds of miles. Nico, I built hundreds of miles of wall and did it well. And we were -- we had the best numbers we ever had four years ago. And now we have the worst numbers in the history of the world, not just this country. At least 21 million people came in during their term. And as we just said, a lot of them are real bad people, real rough people. But they're also taking a lot of jobs from -- Americans probably happened with you. And as the small number of jobs they created, we're all taken by illegal immigrants in the last short period of time. And we're gonna make that change. You look like it'd be great. I'd like to have you make the motor, the engine, the motor of my car any day -- any day of the week. I'll bet you did a great job. I'll bet he did a great job. But we're gonna bring the automobile business back to this area.
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