Trumps Harsh Words on Immigration Is Motivating Immigrants

Tens of thousands of immigrants are applying for U.S. citizenship in a year when immigration is at the center in this year's presidential campaign.
Many immigration advocates say fear of Donald Trump becoming president is motivating many longtime immigrants to apply for citizenship, so they can vote.
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Kasich wants immigration crackdown, but leaves door open on pathway to citizenship

Ohio Gov. John Kasich said Wednesday he would complete a border fence and crack down on illegal immigration if elected president, but he refused to slam the door on a possible pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants already in the U.S.
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GOP rivals demand release of Trump’s off-the-record NY Times audio on immigration

A New York Times columnist offered her analysis of Donald Trump after a recent interview he did with the left-leaning paper. Her opinion prompted his rivals to demand the release of off-the-record audio that allegedly calls into question the businessman’s public views on immigration.
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Marco Rubio Endorsement Brings Trey Gowdy’s Radical History on Immigration Into Spotlight

Rep. Trey Gowdy's (R-SC)endorsement of Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) may shine an unwanted spotlight on the South Carolinians record of past radical statements on immigration and his aggressive support for donor class policies embraced by Sen. Rubio.
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WATCH: This Muslim Leader Just Came To Donald Trump’s Defense In A Way That Shocked Everyone

A Texas imam who has challenged American Muslims to support their home nation said he agrees with Donald Trump's call for a temporary ban on new Muslims entering the United States.
Imam Nidal Alsayyed of Beaumont, Texas, said the government should go even further than Trump's proposal and establish a ban on accepting Syrian refugees of any religion. He said that actions are necessary "when it comes to peace and safety."


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Sens. Rubio, Graham Vote To Continue Muslim Immigration From Countries With Jihadist Movements

A pivotal vote on Muslim immigration split the Republican presidential field in the Senate..with Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC)43%and Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) 80%voting to continue to allow large scale Muslim immigration and Senator Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX)97% and Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY)93%voting to pause Muslim immigration. The amendment, offered Sen. Rand Paul, would have suspended visa issuances to more than 30 Muslim countries with active Jihadist populations. Graham and Rubio were both members of the Gang of Eight, which proposed legislation that would expand Muslim immigration, and Paul and Cruz were both opponents of the Gang of Eight bill.


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MARCO RUBIO TELLS HANNITY: I STILL SUPPORT GREEN CARDS FOR ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS

Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) is defending his participation in drafting the "Gang of Eight" Senate amnesty bill, which offered illegal immigrants a path to American citizenship by allowing them to apply for a green card. In an interview with Sean Hannity last night, Rubio explained that he was "trying to make a difference" by participating in the 2013 process with liberal Democratic Senators like Chuck Schumer to create the "most conservative bill possible" in a Democratic led Senate.


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Kasich: Most GOP Politicians and Voters Agree With Me Not Trump on Immigration

Monday on Iowa Public Television’s “Iowa Press,” Gov. John Kasich (R-OH) said he believes most Republican voters and candidates agree with him, not his “loud” rival Donald Trump and that it is a “double fantasy” that the United States could deport the 11 million illegal immigrants currently living here and get Mexico to pay for a border wall.


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Jeb admitted in his own book that 'leaky' immigration policy led to 9/11

Jeb admitted in his own book that 'leaky' immigration policy led to 9/11 – exactly what he said was 'pathetic' after Trump blasted his brother for failing to prevent it.
A new battlefield has emerged in the war of words between Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump and the man he deposed in July, and this time it's Jeb Bush's own words that are coming back to haunt him.


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Donald Trump hits Marco Rubio on immigration

Donald Trump appears to have a new target: Marco Rubio.
The Florida senator has tried to avoid antagonizing the brash Republican front-runner, but on Tuesday evening Rubio finally landed in Trump's crosshairs.
"Senator Marco 'amnesty' Rubio, who has worst voting record in Senate, just hit me on national security - but I said don't go into Iraq. VISION," Trump tweeted.


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Soros-backed, Bush-led immigration group plans attack ad for CNN debate

The National Immigration Forum Action Fund (NITAF) is preparing to air ads that will attack GOP frontrunner Donald Trump, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, and Texas Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) for championing immigration positions that serve the interests of Americans. The ad, titled “Better,” is set to run during Wednesday’s CNN debate. It shows clips of former president Ronald Reagan’s 1989 farewell speech, sans context, with the three GOP contenders prescribing policy solutions to end unchecked, unpopular mass immigration. It minces Reagan’s words to make him appear soft and non-threatening, a kindly grandpa rather than one of the most successful presidents in U.S. history who faced down the Soviet Union. Read more at Breitbart.com Read More......

FIORINA WORKER-PROTECTION IMMIGRATION RATINGS ARE FALLING FAST

The NumbersUSA Grade Committee met this week to consider all the immigration statements made by Presidential candidates since we last met. We changed lots of category ratings for most of the candidates (see below). To see the statements on which ratings are based, be sure to go to the big Grid with all Presidential candidates and click on the photo of a candidate: www.NumbersUSA.com/2016. You will also find the source and link for all of them.


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Migrant to Mexico Defends Trump, Denounces Ramos

“I’ve never ceased to be Mexican. I have two passports, and I vote in elections in both countries. (Univision’s Jorge Ramos, Time Magazine, 1/2/2013.)
“Then why your silence on the thousands upon thousands of Cubans that are arrested, beaten, extorted and deported by migratory officials of YOUR country, Mr Ramos?” Rafael Alejandro Hernandez, 8/28/2015)
Rafael Alejandro Hernández is a young Cuban lawyer living in Mexico who knows from firsthand experience what migrants to Mexico go through. Last week he unloaded on Jorge Ramos:


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Editorial: Jeb Bush the responsible one on immigration

Jeb Bush wrote the book on immigration. Donald Trump blusters about it and appeals to the worst impulses of Americans who feel threatened by the nation's increasing diversity that they are powerless to stop. It is up to the former Florida governor to take the high road on a smarter approach to immigration policy and to call out Trump's pandering pledge to "take back our country'' even as other Republican presidential candidates meekly fall in line with the bombastic baiting.


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Scott Walker On Birthright Citizenship, 3 Positions, 7 Days

Scott Walker on Sunday took his third position within seven days on Donald Trump's proposal to end birthright citizenship, this time saying he opposes Trump and supports the policy.
The Wisconsin governor and Republican presidential candidate was asked on ABC's "This Week" whether he backs Trump's push to end the 14th Amendment's mandate that all children born in the United States are automatically granted citizenship.


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Kasich defends immigrants as 'contributing significantly'

     Republican presidential candidate John Kasich defended millions of immigrants in the U.S. illegally as "people who are contributing significantly" to the nation, taking on a divisive issue Wednesday as he promised to redefine conservatism during his latest New Hampshire appearance.
     Kasich, a second-term Ohio governor, addressed immigration among other delicate political issues before a crowd of more than 200 packed into a small VFW hall, his second public stop in a two-day swing through the first-in-the-nation primary state. Kasich remains one of the lesser-known 17 Republican White House hopefuls, yet a strong debate performance in his home state last week has produced fresh signs of momentum.


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Jeb Bush on gay marriage, Puerto Rican statehood, immigration, Donald Trump

Kicking off an afternoon swing through Central Florida, Jeb Bush told a group of pastors that Christian businesses should not be “compelled” to participate in gay weddings and that he supports statehood for Puerto Rico and “legal status” — but not citizenship — for millions of immigrants who are now in the U.S. illegally.
On immigration reform, Bush said, “We need to have a path to legal status for the 11 million people here…What else would you do?”


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Marco Rubio Rakes In Donor Money By Touting Immigration Record — Behind Closed Doors

Ever since a right-wing backlash blew up the bipartisan immigration bill that Sen. Marco Rubio helped champion in 2013, the ambitious Republican has struggled to find his political footing on the issue. For two years, he has hemmed and hawed; ducked and dodged; retracted, retreated from, and repeatedly revised his immigration rhetoric in a ploy to appease conservative activists without fully forsaking his position. These days, when the subject comes up in town hall meetings or TV interviews, the silver-tongued senator — now officially running for the GOP presidential nomination — is often reduced to reciting a few stilted talking points, and then angling to change the subject. But there is one setting where Rubio frequently and unabashedly touts his immigration record to great effect: closed-door meetings with the GOP’s elite, high-dollar donors.


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Eric Cantor theater shows immigration reform coming

It usually doesn’t hurt, in trying to analyze Washington, to put events through the most cynical filter possible.

So how else to consider the following: House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, facing a primary challenge, is stepping up his rhetoric on immigration. He has sent fliers to voters that boast Cantor has shut down the plans of President Barack Obama and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to “give illegal aliens amnesty.”

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