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Donald Trump in Texas to renew charge against illegal immigration

Xinhua, September 15, 2015 Adjust font size:

U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump on Monday night renewed his charge against illegal immigrants as he spoke in a rally attended by about 20,000 people in the northern Texas city of Dallas.

In his hour-long speech at the American Airlines Center where the rally was held, Trump, who formally announced his candidacy for president of the United States in the 2016 election in June, described the United States as "a dumping ground for the rest of the world," according to local TV station KPRC.

Since June, the outspoken GOP front-runner has been criticized by the public over his remarks about "anchor babies" and gang members among the immigrants living in the United States illegally. He also called Mexican immigrants rapists and criminals in his June speech.

On Monday, the nearly 70-year-old Trump also mentioned his plan to build a wall along the southern U.S. border with Mexico.

"We are going to build a wall," he said. "Walls work. We have to stop illegal immigration. We have to do it."

Meanwhile, more than 1,000 people protested the Trump campaign outside the rally on Monday night. Some of them carried signs criticizing Trump. The protest, organized by the North Texas chapter of the League of United Latin American Citizens, was called as a "Dump Trump" rally.

Currently, about 17 presidential candidates are trying hard to seek the nomination of the Republican Party, and Trump, an American real estate developer, is one of the front-runners.

In a related development, former Texas Governor Rick Perry on Monday blamed his early exit from the GOP presidential campaign in large part on the felony charges that continue to hang over him from his attempts to get the Travis County district attorney to resign.

Perry's trouble began after his threat in 2013 to veto 7.5 million U.S. dollars for Travis County District Attorney Rosemary Lehmberg, a Democrat, if she did not resign after a drunken driving arrest. Perry vetoed the money after she refused to resign. And then Perry was indicted on charges of coercion of a public official and misuse of his office in 2014.

Perry, who was the first of GOP candidates to withdraw from the presidential race three days ago, said last week that the GOP field was "tremendous," perhaps the best in a generation.

In an interview with Fox News on Monday, Perry, who served as the 47th Governor of Texas from December 2000 to January 2015, declined to formally endorse any candidate in the crowded Republican field by saying that it is a "way too early." Endi