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Politico: Trump Reinvigorates Flagging Border Security Movement
NewsMax ^ | July 23, 2015 | Greg Richter

Posted on 07/23/2015 8:30:46 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

The border security movement had been losing steam, but is being reinvigorated by the focus of presidential candidate Donald Trump, Politico reports.

The Republican Party, hoping to lure more Hispanic voters, had not planned to focus on illegal immigration or border security during the 2016 election cycle, but that changed when Trump uttered the now infamous words about Mexican immigrants during his June 16 entry into the GOP race.

"When Mexico sends its people, they're not sending their best," Trump said. "They're sending people that have lots of problems … They're bringing drugs. They're bringing crime. They're rapists. And some, I assume, are good people."

The quote sparked outrage, but led to focus on border security.

Members of the Minuteman Project, in which armed civilians keep watch over the Mexican border, feel bolstered by Trump's focus on illegal immigration and his trip to Loredo, Texas, on Thursday.

They are looking into continuing their battle not just on the border, but in America's sanctuary cities...

(Excerpt) Read more at newsmax.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Government; Mexico; Politics/Elections; US: California; US: New York; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: 2016election; 2016issues; aliens; borders; bordersecurity; california; crime; election2016; embarcadero; franciscosanchez; illegalaliens; illegalimmigration; immigration; kathrynsteinle; mexico; minutemen; newyork; sanctuary; sanctuarycities; sanfrancisco; texas; trump
Indeed. Just as Ted Cruz has praised him for, unlike LaRaza Rick.
1 posted on 07/23/2015 8:30:46 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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Trump/West 2016


2 posted on 07/23/2015 8:38:34 PM PDT by sushiman
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Trump/Cruz or Cruz/Trump. Allen West for Secretary of the Army, Sarah Palin for Interior, John Bolton at State, Walker at DoL, Bush at FEMA (where he’ll be kept busy), Rubio at Havana, Joe Lieberman at the Pentagon, Santorum as attorney general, Huckabee to Haiti, etc., etc...


3 posted on 07/23/2015 8:54:38 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You can help: https://donate.tedcruz.org/c/FBTX0095/)
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lol that looks like a bit extreme cabinet but so what!


4 posted on 07/23/2015 9:15:42 PM PDT by entropy12 (War heroes display extraordinary bravery. McCain just a bad pilot. Sang like a bird to avoid torture)
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Something for EVERYONE....it would certainly Make America Great Again ;-)


5 posted on 07/23/2015 9:17:39 PM PDT by Jane Long ("And when thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek")
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And Obama to federal prison.


6 posted on 07/23/2015 9:41:49 PM PDT by Democrat_media (Obama will use Obamatrade to import hundreds of millions of 3rd world people into the U.S.)
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Trump/Cruz or Cruz/Trump. Allen West for Secretary of the Army, Sarah Palin for Interior, John Bolton at State, Walker at DoL, Bush at FEMA (where he’ll be kept busy), Rubio at Havana, Joe Lieberman at the Pentagon, Santorum as attorney general, Huckabee to Haiti, etc., etc...

Dream Team !

7 posted on 07/23/2015 9:46:05 PM PDT by JMJJR ( Newspeak is the official language of Oceania)
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