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Donald Trump Paints Republicans Into Corner With Hispanics
The New York Times ^ | AUG. 18, 2015 | TRIP GABRIEL and JULIA PRESTON

Posted on 08/18/2015 9:06:08 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican

Republicans thought they had learned a lesson after 2012: Turning off Latino voters ensures defeat in the general election.

But as the disruptive presidential candidacy of Donald J. Trump continues to gain support, his hard line on immigration has driven rivals to match his biting anti-immigrant language and positions long considered extreme. It risks another general election cycle in which Hispanics view the party as unfriendly no matter who the nominee is, Republican strategists warned.

This week, several of Mr. Trump’s Republican rivals, including Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin, echoed his call to end automatic citizenship for the American-born children of undocumented immigrants, repealing a constitutional right dating from the Civil War era.

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


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: 2016election; birthright; citizenship; election2016; minorityrepublican; minorityrino; newyork; trump; undocumented
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To: MinorityRepublican

Since most hispanics are illegal or support illegals, who cares? I sure don’t.


21 posted on 08/18/2015 9:26:13 PM PDT by Reno89519 (American Lives Matter! US Citizen, Veteran, Conservative, Republican. I vote. Trump 2016.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

..... undocumented immigrants.

You mean illegals?

Enough of the anchor babies. Time to end that game.


22 posted on 08/18/2015 9:27:40 PM PDT by boycott (S)
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To: MinorityRepublican

“Undocumented immigrants”?

That’s the language of the left. They are called illegal aliens.


23 posted on 08/18/2015 9:28:13 PM PDT by nhwingut (Trump-Cruz 2016 - Blow Up The GOPe)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Mark Levin’s take...

http://therightscoop.com/mark-levin-congress-can-end-birthright-citizenship-without-amending-the-constitution/

https://www.conservativereview.com/Commentary/2015/08/fixing-the-birthright-citizenship-loophole-myth-vs-fact


24 posted on 08/18/2015 9:28:56 PM PDT by aquila48
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To: MinorityRepublican

A “nation” that will not secure and defend its borders does not deserve to exist, and America, the U.S.A., can logically be said to have completely compromised its identity and its reason to exist..


25 posted on 08/18/2015 9:28:58 PM PDT by Elsiejay (qeustion of qualificatioin)
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To: inchworm

Yeah, no kidding.


26 posted on 08/18/2015 9:29:43 PM PDT by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason and rule of law. Prepare!)
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To: TigerClaws

The legal immigrants and Hispanic citizens are tired of losing jobs to illegals and tired of the reputations they worked so hard to establish. They will flock to Trump!
Viva Trump!


27 posted on 08/18/2015 9:31:11 PM PDT by satan (The tree of liberty is dying in the drought.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

From the The York Slimes you want want what?... Truth?..


28 posted on 08/18/2015 9:32:00 PM PDT by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited (specifically) to include some fully orbed hyperbole..)
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To: nhwingut

You’re completely right. And it’s so offensive to call these criminals “immigrants” in any way, shape, or form. It’s offensive to my parents who went through so much and waited years and years to be admitted into this country.


29 posted on 08/18/2015 9:32:07 PM PDT by Borax Queen
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To: NKP_Vet

...The key for a GOP win is getting conservatives off their ass ....

Actually, its the Reagan-Perot democrats or working class group that is the key to the election. Hispanics are a group the GOP are going to lose anyway, but the payoff for the Rep candidate will be gaining 2 votes from the above mentioned group, for every hispanic vote they lose.


30 posted on 08/18/2015 9:32:47 PM PDT by WILLIALAL
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To: MinorityRepublican

How about the term ‘foreign invaders’ or is that too politically correct?


31 posted on 08/18/2015 9:33:19 PM PDT by Read Write Repeat
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To: Reno89519

Since most hispanics are illegal or support illegals, who cares? I sure don’t.


or once were illegals.. Themselves..


32 posted on 08/18/2015 9:34:02 PM PDT by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited (specifically) to include some fully orbed hyperbole..)
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To: hosepipe

They may not speak up about it out of fear, but I suspect most legal Hispanics don’t care for illegals neither, they went through the process, why should the others get the same thing for nothing?


33 posted on 08/18/2015 9:35:11 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: MinorityRepublican

Get out of our country you illegal scum.


34 posted on 08/18/2015 9:36:06 PM PDT by toddausauras ( Leftplosion.)
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To: WILLIALAL

Actually, the biggest group that will swing the election is Generation X voters.

FULL ON REAGAN

Ahh, it’s going to be great being pandered to for once!


35 posted on 08/18/2015 9:36:12 PM PDT by Read Write Repeat
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To: Red Steel

yep, a few million bad apples have spoiled it for the whole damned bunch. One way or the other, it has to stop.


36 posted on 08/18/2015 9:37:09 PM PDT by RC one
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To: MinorityRepublican

Glad to be lectured by the All-Knowing, All-Wise New York Times.


37 posted on 08/18/2015 9:38:33 PM PDT by bboop (does not suffer fools gladly)
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To: Red Steel

Trump is correct and Levin explained how on his show today.


38 posted on 08/18/2015 9:39:00 PM PDT by BigEdLB (They need to target the 'Ministry of Virtue' which has nothing to do with virtue.)
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To: MinorityRepublican
he is wrong about ending automatic birthright citizenship for children of undocumented immigrants.

Why? Criminal aliens do not have that right.
39 posted on 08/18/2015 9:39:23 PM PDT by PA Engineer (Liberate America from the Occupation Media. #2ndAmendmentMatters)
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he is wrong about ending automatic birthright citizenship for children of undocumented immigrants.

No he isn't.

40 posted on 08/18/2015 9:39:48 PM PDT by itsahoot (55 years a republican-Now Independent. Will write in Sarah Palin, no matter who runs. RIH-GOP)
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