10th Republican debate fails to determine nominee to counter democrats

The 10th Republican debate failed to determine the Republican nominee to battle the Democrat's top choice in the U.S. presidential election scheduled for November.

The five candidates, front-runner Donald Trump, Texas Senator Ted Cruz, Florida Senator Marco Rubio, Ohio Gov. John Kasich and retired neurosurgeon Dr. Ben Carson, centered around immigration, Supreme Court nominations, medical care and suitability to become the U.S. president.

The debate, co-hosted by CNN, Spanish-language network Telemundo and Salem Radio Network, took place in the University of Houston.

Real estate developer Trump said if elected he would allow some of the 11 million undocumented immigrants to return whom he would previously deport under his immigration reform plan.

"They will come back through a process....the best of them will come back," Trump said.

However, Cruz responded that legal immigrants are losing their jobs because of illegal workers taking those slots.

"I think it 's a mistake to forgive those who break the law and allow them to become U.S. citizens," Cruz said.

Rubio said that before doing anything on immigration, the U.S. must secure the border and criticised Trump for changing his position from denigrating to supporting self-deportation, saying that Trump had once been fined for hiring illegal Polish workers.

Candidates were also asked about their nominations to the Supreme Court. Trump vowed he would support religious liberty, which Cruz and Rubio doubted would come true. Kasich supported conservative judges and Carson wanted fair-minded people.

On the Affordable Healthcare Act, better known as Obamacare, Rubio said he would repeal that law that is killing jobs and replace it with something better.

Trump said he would keep part of Obamacare that calls for medical care for people with pre-existing conditions.

Kasich said he did't want people to lose their house because they can't afford their hospital bills, and will make the market work without pre-existing condition clause.

Carson said he would set up individual medical accounts rather than Medicare or Obamacare.

On economy, Trump said he would lessen personal taxes and business taxes.

According to Kasich, he inherited a 10-billion-dollar deficit as governor in Ohio, and now has a 2-billion-dollar surplus and have created 400,000 jobs.

"And I'll go to Washington and do it again for the American people," Kasich said, adding "that is what this country needs. Jobs, jobs and jobs."

Rubio said he had no problem releasing his tax returns, while Cruz said he will release two more years of returns. Endi