Donald Trump – whose hardline position on immigration has upended the Republican race for president – has called on the US to take in more Syrian refugees, telling an interviewer: “I hate the concept of it, but on a humanitarian basis you have to.” In an appearance on Fox News’s O’Reilly Factor on Tuesday night, […]
Trump ‘hates concept’ of US taking in Syrian refugees but resigns himself to it
September 9, 2015 By 14 Comments
Rick Perry suggests helping to secure Mexico’s southern border
September 3, 2015 By 6 Comments
Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry spoke with Fox News’s Lou Dobbs on Wednesday about how imperative border security is to immigration reform, and suggested a step that other candidates have not addressed: that the U.S. help to secure Mexico’s southern border in order to stymie the flow of Central Americans into the country: Perry discussed […]
Jeb Bush blasts Trump on immigration
September 2, 2015 By 1 Comment
Miami, Sep 1 (EFE).- Republican presidential hopeful Jeb Bush said Tuesday that if he becomes president he will propose a path to legalization for undocumented migrants, especially the ones brought to the United States as children, and he distanced himself from the harsh radical line on immigration taken by magnate Donald Trump. “What he (Trump) […]
Jeb Bush: Those attacking immigration stance should ‘chill out’
September 2, 2015 By 45 Comments
By George Bennett, The Palm Beach Post, Fla. Sept. 01– MIAMI — Jeb Bush slammed Donald Trump on Tuesday as a counterfeit conservative with unworkable immigration views and said Hillary Clinton should “chill out” after criticizing his use of the term “anchor babies.” A day after Republican presidential front runner Trump’s campaign released a video […]
Naples Daily News, Fla., Brent Batten column
August 28, 2015 By 8 Comments
By Brent Batten, Naples Daily News, Fla. And subject to the jurisdiction thereof. Six words you probably haven’t thought about since high school civics class, if then. But they’re roaring into the national consciousness as the debate about illegal immigration intensifies in and out of the Republican presidential campaign. A new study on immigration demonstrates […]
Trump blames gangs of illegal immigrants for woes in Ferguson, St. Louis
August 26, 2015 By 1 Comment
By Kim Bell, St. Louis Post-Dispatch Aug. 26–Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump says gangs of immigrants in the country illegally are causing trouble in Ferguson and St. Louis, comments that aren’t ringing true with Ferguson’s mayor. “You know a lot of the gangs that you see in Baltimore and in St. Louis and Ferguson and […]
