Posted on 07/07/2015 6:20:02 AM PDT by Enlightened1
NEW YORK (AP) — Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump stood firm Monday on his description of Mexican immigrants as criminals.
The businessman, under fire from critics in and out of his party, issued a lengthy statement refusing to back off comments he made in the speech launching his presidential bid last month. In it, he called Mexican immigrant criminals and rapists, prompting several businesses, including NBC, Univision and Macy’s, to cut ties with Trump.
In his new statement, Trump said “the Mexican government is forcing their most unwanted people into the United States” and claimed that in many cases, they are “criminals, drug dealers, rapists, etc.”
He said later Monday, during a charity golf tournament at one of his courses, that his standing in some polls is proof that many Americans share his views.
“I think the polls are a testament,” said Trump, one of more than a dozen Republicans running for president. “In the old days, they used to use a term, `the silent majority.’ We have the silent majority back, folks.”
Polls this early in the race tend to reflect name recognition more than depth of support for a candidate and few in the GOP regard Trump, a well-known TV figure, as a serious presidential contender despite poll standings that may be good enough to qualify him to be in the first GOP debate. Debate guidelines provide for the top 10 candidates in national polling to participate.
One major brand that has not cut ties with Trump is the New York Yankees. The team’s co-chairman Hank Steinbrenner, who organized the charity golf tournament at Trump’s new course in the Bronx, said the real estate developer is “a loyal friend and I am loyal to my friends.”
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No way Cruz would want Trump to be prez. No way.
Sure thing.
Just like Benghazi was over a video.
Yeah, it’s mostly doctors and architects being brought over by the coyotes. Scientists and lawyers too. All highly educated white collar types.
Cruz is a Republican Politician. I’m not.
Physicists and all wonders of human thought!
“Cruz is a Republican Politician. I’m not.”
LOL!
That the best you can do?
Go back to post 86, by you.. then read the link in 82 again.
OK so? Cruz is a Republican Politician. I’m not. I can say what I want.
Correction, post 85
LOL.
You’re so right!
easily amused I guess..
Any Mexican or any non US citizen that enters our country without a legal passport, VISA, or other papers that may be necessary is an illegal person, alien, or whatever the appropriate PC term used, is a criminal.
Easily amused by people who spout off and act all offended by statements over ILLEGAL immigration that are correct.
Well sáid!
Trump Derangement Syndrome
Guilty!
I am starting to fear that the NWO crowd is gonna put a bullet in his head.
“I’ve heard that refrain before—the 1840’s when the Irish Catholics escaping the Irish Potato Famine showed up, the 1880’s to 1924 when the southern and eastern Europeans showed up, the 1980’s with the Vietnamese boat refugees, and now with the Latinos.”
Yup. In a sense, we have always been a “dumping ground” (see: tired, poor, huddled masses). Which makes sense given our history of immigration - people tend to emigrate en masse when they are poor and desperate, not wealthy and comfortable.
Obviously, economic conditions have changed, and there is a real question of whether our modern, information-driven economy can sustain waves of relatively uneducated “huddled masses.”
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