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"We're immigrants, and it makes it seem like it's worse than a criminal," said Sarjina Emy, a 20-year-old former honors student who spent nearly two years in a Florida lockup because her parents' asylum claim was denied when she was a child. "I always thought America does so much for justice. I really thought you get a fair trial. You actually go to court. (U.S. authorities) know what they are doing. Now, I figured out that it only works for criminal citizens."
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originally posted by: AboveBoard
So technically, the "softening" on immigration hasn't really happened, and it you look closely at his Arizona speech, on the surface it appears he's only talking about illegals who commit crimes and gives the impression these are jailed individuals, gang members, etc. If you look closely however, he may be looking at criminals first, but is still leaving the "deport them all" door open.
So he appears to have softened from his earlier hard line, but the fact is he Did say he'd round up all the illegals and Did talk about a deportation force. His language may be softer now, but if elected, could revert back to his earlier stance.
Trump would not be the first person to suggest this. President Eisenhower did it back in May 1954. "Operation Wetback".
The hatred of Clinton and Obama has turned ordinarily thinking people into idiots, that have let their ideology completely destroy their common sense.
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originally posted by: ErrorErrorError
originally posted by: savemebarry
a reply to: gmoneystunt
ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS.
Since when has that meant honest citizen.
Really? You prove the OP's point with a stupid redundant video that says exactly what the OP was saying.
originally posted by: buster2010
I never said anything about race now did i? Care to show me where I did?
Sorry my little Trumpbot but no just because a person doesn't support every hair-brained idea the great orange messiah has doesn't automatically mean they are voting for Chairperson Mao in a pantsuit.
originally posted by: AboveBoard
a reply to: IgnoranceIsntBlisss
So he appears to have softened from his earlier hard line, but the fact is he Did say he'd round up all the illegals and Did talk about a deportation force. His language may be softer now, but if elected, could revert back to his earlier stance.
Politifact
originally posted by: ErrorErrorError
originally posted by: savemebarry
a reply to: gmoneystunt
ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS.
Since when has that meant honest citizen.
Really? You prove the OP's point with a stupid redundant video that says exactly what the OP was saying.
originally posted by: Swills
a reply to: IgnoranceIsntBlisss
You know, he talked about having a deportation force that would send back all the illegals. He talked about sending all the illegals back to Mexico many, many time. Then he kinda back peddled on it recently but flip flopped again and is now back to deporting them all and making Mexico pay for a wall.
It's amazing what Trump supporters see and what you don't see. No one here has to provide you with anything because a simple Google search will suffice.
Shameful?
"The Eisenhower mass deportation policy was tragic," Aguilar said. "Human rights were violated. People were removed to distant locations without food and water. There were many deaths, unnecessary deaths. Sometimes even U.S. citizens of Hispanic origin, of Mexican origin were removed. It was a travesty. It was terrible. Immigrants were humiliated. So to say it's a success story is ridiculous. It shows that Mr. Trump doesn't know what he's talking about."
It was the second wave of mass deportations of Latinos undertaken by the U.S.
Our friend Adrian Florido of the Code Switch blog wrote about the mass deportations of the 1930s and 1940s. Scholars estimate that as The Great Depression took hold — and many Americans believed Mexicans were taking away scarce jobs — the U.S. deported about 2 million Mexicans and Mexican-Americans. Many of them had been lured by the booming economy during much of the '20s.
As Adrian reported, California formally apologized in 2012 for its role in illegally deporting hundreds of thousands of U.S. citizens.
In another case, immigration authorities dumped hundreds of thousands of braceros across the border. She continues: "Some 88 braceros died of sun stroke as a result of a round-up that had taken place in 112-degree heat, and [an American labor official] argued that more would have died had Red Cross not intervened. At the other end of the border, in Nuevo Laredo, a Mexican labor leader reported that 'wetbacks' were 'brought [into Mexico] like cows' on trucks and unloaded fifteen miles down the highway from the border, in the desert."
Giuliani: Trump no longer wants mass deportations
Giuliani told CNN's Jake Tapper on "State of the Union" that Trump "would find it very, very difficult to throw out a family that has been here for 15 years and they have three children, two of whom are citizens. That is not the kind of America he wants."
Giuliani's comments follow a hardline immigration speech Trump delivered last week in Arizona. The former mayor cited an Associated Press report characterizing Trump's comments as "a sharp retreat" from his pledge during the primary season to remove all 11 million undocumented immigrants from the United States.
Still, other Republicans, including Arizona Sen. Jeff Flake, rejected the idea that Trump had softened. And Trump's running mate, Mike Pence, and campaign manager Kellyanne Conway were coy on the issue. Their comments triggered criticism from the campaign of Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, over "attempts to mislead" about Trump's immigration plan.