Posted on 09/03/2016 7:41:40 AM PDT by John Semmens
Hillary Clinton's running mate Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va) took offense at GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump's "exploitation of tragedy" in his argument against sanctuary cities. In sanctuary cities, government officials have ordered police to ignore federal law against illegal immigration. Some of the illegal immigrants protected by sanctuary cities have gone on the kill Americans. In remarks given at a rally in Arizona this week Trump invited parents of children killed by illegal immigrants to speak to the crowd.
Kaine labeled Trump's inclusion of these grieving parents "political pandering at its worst. Using surviving family members to argue against the policy decisions of any level of government strikes me as disloyal and disruptive. I'm not saying these parents didn't suffer a real loss, but we need to keep a balanced perspective. The number of people killed by undocumented residents is very small compared to the number killed by home-grown urban gangs or racist cops."
Trump campaign CEO Steve Bannon called Kaine's complaint "ironic, considering that the Democrats have sided with the Black Lives Matter propaganda that seeks to elevate dangerous confrontations between police and armed criminals as evidence of racism. All of the victims whose parents participated in the Trump rally in Arizona were innocent, unarmed individuals going about their own business. None of them would have been killed if this country's immigration laws had been enforced. Allowing the parents to speak out against the injustice and ineptitude of the Democratic Party's policies is a step toward righting the wrongs of those policies so that other families won't have to suffer from continued injustice and ineptitude at the hands of a Clinton Administration."
Kaine also told an audience in Pennsylvania that "it is every voter's right to know whether a candidate is honest enough and fit enough to take on the demanding tasks of the presidency. One of the ways of examining these questions is by reviewing the communications, financial records, and health reports of each candidate."
Kaine contrasted Trump with Clinton, saying that "Secretary Clinton's communications have been thoroughly vetted by the FBI and pronounced free of indictable offenses. She has released her tax returns. And she has demonstrated her physical fitness on TV. Meanwhile, Trump is being given a free pass on any scrutiny by a corrupt and curiously uninquisitive media."
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