Posted on 07/07/2015 8:13:21 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Recently, Donald Trump declared himself a candidate for the office of President of the United States. He came out against illegal immigration and strongly stated that the southern border of U.S. should be sealed, that he was the only person who could do the job, and that America needed to do this since many illegal immigrants were criminals and America is worse off because of them.
It is interesting to compare the statements made by Donald Trump to actual crime facts and statistics in the U.S. His statements have been portrayed as racist and generally unbefitting a presidential candidate. These criticisms have been forwarded by both progressive political spokespersons and news media outlets who, it is fair to say, are progressive or liberal in their leanings.
On this basis alone, their criticisms of Mr. Trump are interesting. Mr. Trump is characterized as a greedy capitalist who has made a fortune by exploiting the work of others. But in reality Mr. Trump has created thousands of jobs for Americans from all ethnicities.
Looking at the reality of how illegal immigrants are portrayed, it may be more accurate to say that progressives are acting as exploitive capitalists. They, and the defenders of illegal immigration, have always said that illegal immigrants are here to do “low paid jobs nobody else will do.”
This implies that their children and grandchildren should also be low paid. The only way illegal immigrants can ever obtain good jobs is by obtaining a good education, yet Democrats and their liberal enablers intentionally have successfully forced, through Federal regulation, all product labels, election ballots, and so on be printed in Spanish as well as English. This action permanently disables illegal immigrants and their children from ever obtaining good paying, English speaking, jobs.
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How dare he criminalize people that are committing crimes. What has this world come too!
I'm sure they're in the process of drilling down to find one at this moment.
Keep it up Donald and you’ll prove to even the most skeptical that you’re the man! Ted Cruz can be on the ticket as well. He’ll make an excellent vice-president.
Right on the money.
I would be willing to bet after this story came out a call was made to HR to get rid of any illegals on the job site.
My only criticism of this column lies in the fact that
Mr. Bargo lets the Repubican party completely off the hook.
For sure the enviable Republican candidate, Jeb Bush is not going to do a dam thing to stop the flow of low pay Democrat others from pouring in.
That was published yesterday
With the article in mind we should make a list of the R candidates that are attaching Trump and the truth.
Thus far: Bush Christy Perry
Find a straw poll and register your support of truth
Sshhh, you’re not supposed to notice that the GOP is a wholly owned subsidiary of The Cheap Labor Express.
Almost all of the GOP officeholders have been paid to keep the borders open and the laws unenforced.
GWB actually DECREASED border and interior enforcement AFTER 9/11 from the inadequate levels of the Clinton years to nearly non-existent. Enforcement has become non-existent under Barky.
And the response from the GOP is to push for amnesty.
Pataki, Kasich and Huckabee need to be added to your list
The objective observer may see this as proof that Democrat liberals, not Mr. Trump, are openly promoting the rhetoric of the worst kind of capitalism: the stereotyping of an entire ethnic group as only capable of demeaning work, based purely on their race.
Trump is only guilty of delivery "unbefitting a presidential candidate"...Trump is not a racist, he makes jobs for whoever can do the work. This 'war' on a man because he doesn't fit the mold (?) of political rhetoric and delivering it in the usual pandering mode...Trump is speaking the truth and that scares the wheee out of lace-cuffed pundits and other Washington insiders....the GOP candidates who are 'attacking' him over his flawless facts, should be thanking him for his truthfulness on subjects they are afraid to touch.
From what I read Trump said was “....as long as they work hard...” and yes he does give illegal immigrants jobs, because they work hard....
And who decides what is considered "unbefitting" of a presidential candidate? The liberals and open borders crowd? I think, most of the phony claims and rhetoric coming out Obama's mouth for the last 6 years has been "unbefitting" of a president.
Trump may drop out, or he may not garner enough support to make it to the general or people may write him off as a buffoon or a clown, but he is entitled to be a candidate like anybody else and voice his opinions as he sees fit, unconventional or not. Personally, I am tired of the same old, same old coming out of the GOP in the last two elections. McCain might as well have been a democRAT. Romney tried to change the dialogue but he was too rich and too "unfeeling" towards the American people, according to some.
With 16 or 17 GOP candidates in the race now, whatever the latest number is, that should provide some fireworks as the candidates vie for a place in the first debate and try to pull away from the pack. If all of them were the same (and most of them are unfortunately--too many egos involved), how boring would that be and what would distinguish one from the other?
I say let Trump be Trump and let the chips fall where they may. All these companies and organizations pulling away from him because of his remarks, to me are the problem in this country, not Trump. They are too quick to cave-in and buckle under at the first whiff of the Left's cultural Marxist political correctness, that is designed to stifle rhetoric in the opposition. He must be right over the target with his Mexican comments considering all the flak he's been taking from both sides of the aisles.
Bush Christy Huckabee Kasich Pataki Perry
Wonder how many will back it down this week? Or are they all in need of GOpee $upport
Certainly adds a few names to the also ran list
Except for Cruz, all the other candidates have been attacking him because he’s exposing them as complicit in keeping the borders open and the laws unenforced.
Bush, Rubberio, Perry, Pataki, Huckabee, Kasich, etc. are all on board The Cheap Labor Express.
They don’t want to thank him, they want him silenced.
They want the invasion/cheap labor importation/colonization to continue.
The number of criminal aliens in federal prisons in fiscal year 2010 was about 55,000, and the number of SCAAP criminal alien incarcerations in state prison systems and local jails was about 296,000 in fiscal year 2009 (the most recent data available), and the majority were from Mexico. The number of criminal aliens in federal prisons increased about 7 percent from about 51,000 in fiscal year 2005 while the number of SCAAP criminal alien incarcerations in state prison systems and local jails increased about 35 percent from about 220,000 in fiscal year 2003. The time period covered by these data vary because they reflect updates since GAO last reported on these issues in 2005.
Specifically, in 2005, GAO reported that the percentage of criminal aliens in federal prisons was about 27 percent of the total inmate population from 2001 through 2004. Based on our random sample, GAO estimates that the criminal aliens had an average of 7 arrests, 65 percent were arrested at least once for an immigration offense, and about 50 percent were arrested at least once for a drug offense. Immigration, drugs, and traffic violations accounted for about 50 percent of arrest offenses. About 90 percent of the criminal aliens sentenced in federal court in fiscal year 2009 (the most recently available data) were convicted of immigration and drug-related offenses. About 40 percent of individuals convicted as a result of DOJ terrorism-related investigations were aliens.
SCAAP criminal aliens incarcerated in selected state prison systems in Arizona, California, Florida, New York, and Texas were convicted of various offenses in fiscal year 2008 (the most recently available data at the time of GAO's analysis). The highest percentage of convictions for criminal aliens incarcerated in four of these states was for drug-related offenses. Homicide resulted in the most primary offense convictions for SCAAP criminal aliens in the fifth state--New York--in fiscal year 2008. GAO estimates that costs to incarcerate criminal aliens in federal prisons and SCAAP reimbursements to states and localities ranged from about $1.5 billion to $1.6 billion annually from fiscal years 2005 through 2009;
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