On Sunday, August 16, 2015 Donald Trump released an immigration policy position paper that has generated nearly as much controversy as his original, inflammatory statements about Mexicans. Below are excerpts from just some of the many fine analytical pieces that came out yesterday and today in English and Spanish...
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“Attention, presidential candidates: If they haven’t already…Iowa DREAMers are coming for you.” In a must-read piece, the Des Moines Register profiles the young activists driving the immigration debate in Iowa as both Democratic and Republican Presidential candidates visit to draw support for next year’s first-in-the-nation caucuses. In particular, the...
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Over the weekend, leading Republican candidate Donald Trump went into further detail about his immigrant “plans” — an ugly, nativist wish-list proposing to round up and deport a population the size of Ohio — and at least one other GOP candidate is already eagerly onboard. From the Huffington Post:...
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If Implemented, Trump’s Radical Proposal Would Be a Tragic and Dark Chapter in America’s Story Donald Trump has begun to provide specifics regarding his approach to immigration. The GOP’s frontrunner wants to rid America of 11 million undocumented immigrants and their U.S. citizen children, change the U.S. Constitution’s definition...
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Aug 16, 2015
Trump Says Deport 11 million, Stop Legal Immigration, Change Constitution and More Today Donald Trump’s campaign issued his immigration position paper. He also talked about immigration in an interview with Chuck Todd in which he said that undocumented immigrants “have to go”. Given that he sought and received the advice of Republican hardliner Senator...
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Republican Presidential candidate Jeb Bush cut a Nevada rally short yesterday after facing sharp criticism from immigration and Black Lives Matter activists, according to a report from the Los Angeles Times. It began when Bush was responding to a question about family reunification from an audience member: Richard Carreon,...
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It’s almost like Donald Trump’s campaign has turned into a real-life Saturday Night Live skit that’s absolutely god-awful but you can’t stop watching. At a rally in Michigan yesterday (where he also falsely claimed “1,000” people were outside the doors trying to get in), the candidate boasted that he...
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Here’s more of that “Trump Effect” in action. Today, Chris Christie — fresh off a rocky debate performance, where even a visibly-irritated Rand Paul rolled his eyes at the candidate — told right-wing radio host and noted xenophobe Laura Ingraham that we should “reexamine” the 14th Amendment, which grants...
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Leave it to Jorge Ramos to perfectly sum up the Donald Trump campaign in one sentence: “Donald Trump is the loudest voice of intolerance, division, and hatred right now in America.” Ouch. The Univision anchor recently sat down with CNN, where he not only praised the line of questioning...
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RNC Chair Reince Priebus’s 2012 post-mortem report following Mitt Romney’s obliteration seemed pretty clear in its message to Republicans: We must pass immigration reform if we’re going to make amends with the Latino voters who defeated us, and we must pass it now. “We must embrace and champion comprehensive...
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