All posts tagged "Immigration Reform"

Trump quoting Adolf Hitler apparently isn't helping combat the country's immigration issues.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who is challenging the 45th president for the GOP presidential nomination, appeared on Christian Broadcasting Network with David Brody to subtly jab at his former POTUS pal after being prompted to respond to Trump's word choice when criticizing undocumented people "poisoning the blood of our country."

On Saturday, thousands of Trump faithful were in attendance at a rally in Durham, New Hampshire, where Trump read off a teleprompter to paint undocumented migrants as harming the nation.
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Former President Donald Trump is pledging to reinstate his controversial travel ban if he is re-elected to the presidency, CBS News reported on Friday.

"Trump made the comment in Council Bluffs, Iowa, as he made his pitch to voters in the largely White state," reported Kathryn Watson and Zak Hudak. "'Under the Trump administration, we imposed extreme vetting and put on a powerful travel ban to keep radical Islamic terrorists and jihadists out of our country,' Trump told his audience. 'Well, how did that work out? We had no problem, right? They knew they couldn't come here if they had that moniker. They couldn't come here.'"

Trump went on to say, "When I return to office, the travel ban is coming back even bigger than before and much stronger than before. We don't want people blowing up our shopping centers. We don't want people blowing up our cities and we don't want people stealing our farms. So it's not gonna happen."...

GOP Presidential candidate Donald Trump didn't hesitate to use a random act of violence in San Francisco to double down on his racism and demonize all Mexican immigrants. Instead of being able to make a nuanced point about anything, he demonstrated that his walnut-sized brain is incapable of nuance, yet very capable of worthless anecdotal evidence.

By Jeff Mason and Julia Edwards

A Republican lawmaker admitted yesterday that his party is having difficulty moving forward with  immigration reform due to deeply rooted racist animus expressed by a portion of their own constituent base.

US House Speaker John Boehner gathered his congressional Republicans Thursday to debate the party's future, saying the time had come for his party to help pass immigration reform.