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GOP candidate compared deporting illegal immigrants to Nazis, 'not opposed' to fast-tracking DACA citizenship
Fox News ^ | 1/18/24 | Brandon Gillespie

Posted on 01/18/2024 5:11:23 AM PST by cotton1706

ARepublican running for Congress in North Carolina previously compared deporting illegal immigrants to Nazi Germany, and said he was "not opposed" to fast-tracking citizenship for recipients of Deferred Action Childhood Arrivals (DACA), also known as "Dreamers."

Pat Harrigan, a candidate running to represent North Carolina's 10th Congressional District, made the comments in an Oct. 2022 interview with WFAE 90.7, a public radio station that services the Charlotte area, while a congressional candidate in a different district ahead of the midterm elections.

"There has to be a pathway to citizenship. Look, from my perspective, you look at countries that have rounded up and exported people from their country. It's a list of countries that we don't want to be involved with. It's Russia. It's North Korea. It's China. It is Nazi Germany," he said when asked about a "pathway to citizenship" for individuals in the U.S. illegally.

"This horse has left the stables on this topic. And the vast, vast majority of immigrants that have come to this country are here because they're trying to build a better life for themselves and for their families," he said.

The interviewer then asked Harrigan about "Dreamers," those brought to the U.S. as children of illegal immigrants, and whether there should be a process for them to gain citizenship more quickly.

"I think we need to look at exactly how we do that, but I'm not opposed to it. I do think it’s incredibly important that we have to gain control of the southern border and gain control of our immigration system first, prior to allowing any type of assimilation program on a widespread basis. Critically important that we do that one-two step," he responded.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Politics/Elections; US: North Carolina
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To: cotton1706

This guy just torpedoed his own campaign.


21 posted on 01/18/2024 6:19:43 AM PST by Bloody Sam Roberts (The Truth is like a lion. You don't need to defend it. Let it loose and it will defend itself.)
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To: cotton1706

I think Nikki has her running mate.


22 posted on 01/18/2024 6:23:41 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Lurker

The pathway is heading south to their own countries which they are already citizens of.


23 posted on 01/18/2024 6:26:05 AM PST by dforest
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To: MMusson

He stole it.

He literally entered illegally, and stole it, along with all Welfare given.

You don’t reward that. You punish that.


24 posted on 01/18/2024 6:33:00 AM PST by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: MMusson

Give them legal status but NOT citizenship.


25 posted on 01/18/2024 6:37:49 AM PST by RWGinger (FJB)
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To: cotton1706

And the Republicans all over the country continue their death dives.


26 posted on 01/18/2024 6:58:19 AM PST by antidemoncrat
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To: cotton1706

I do think it’s incredibly important that we have to gain control of the southern border and gain control of our immigration system first, prior to allowing any type of assimilation program on a widespread basis.

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So you’re saying that after all the previous Republican administrations we have never really had control of the border? And we’re to believe that an amnesty-peddler like yourself is gonna take that seriously? BWAHAHAHAHA!


27 posted on 01/18/2024 7:08:08 AM PST by Bishop_Malachi (Liberal Socialism - A philosophy which advocates spreading a low standard of living equally.)
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To: cotton1706

The countries on his list didn’t “round up people and export (sic) them”. They rounded them up and killed them. Crucial difference.


28 posted on 01/18/2024 7:24:30 AM PST by Orosius (Wake America Up Again )
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To: MMusson

“Taxpayers have invested $120K in his education”

Entirely against our will and to the detriment of our own children.

Repeal Plyler v. Doe and let the citizenry decide where their money goes.


29 posted on 01/18/2024 7:49:31 AM PST by Regulator (It's fraud, Jim)
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To: cotton1706

GOP candidate compared deporting illegal immigrants to Nazis.

Didn’t know the Nazis deported people hey they didn’t he has the democrat history book.


30 posted on 01/18/2024 8:27:46 AM PST by Vaduz
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To: Vaduz

Oh, tut-tut.

Everyone KNOWS the Nazis didn’t deport anyone.

They humanely “relocated” these people, many of them German citizens. Sent them off to places they didn’t have to interact with Germans who disliked them.

They were well cared for in those places.

It was a really humane thing of the Nazis to do.

/s


31 posted on 01/18/2024 9:03:39 AM PST by rlmorel ("The stigma for being wrong is gone, as long as you're wrong for the right side." (Clarice Feldman))
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To: cotton1706

Dreamers = Dreamercrats


32 posted on 01/18/2024 10:14:19 AM PST by aimhigh (1 John 3:23 "And THIS is His commandment . . . . ")
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; BraveMan; cardinal4; ...

33 posted on 01/18/2024 11:04:26 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: cotton1706

Well, I imagine the Nazis would have deported illegal immigrants, yes.

They also plowed the snow and ran municipal water systems. Are we not supposed to do those things, either?


34 posted on 01/18/2024 11:10:15 AM PST by Jim Noble (The future belongs to those who show up)
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To: cotton1706
And the vast, vast majority of immigrants that have come to this country are here because they're trying to build a better life for themselves and for their families," he said

So?

35 posted on 01/18/2024 11:12:06 AM PST by Jim Noble (The future belongs to those who show up)
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To: cotton1706

Another communist plant...
The GOP is full of them...
A technique that was developed by Felix Dzerzhinsky to save the communist revolution when it was on the precipice of failure...


36 posted on 01/18/2024 12:24:22 PM PST by SuperLuminal (Where is the next Sam Adams when we so desperately need him)
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To: rlmorel

Everyone KNOWS the Nazis didn’t deport anyone.

Indeed it all depends on what history book you read the democrats are printing their own too.

yellow media approved


37 posted on 01/18/2024 1:43:49 PM PST by Vaduz
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To: cotton1706

Is this Bozo being primaried?


38 posted on 01/18/2024 8:48:23 PM PST by Taxman ((SAVE AMERICA! VOTE REPUBLICAN IN 2024! SAVE AMERICA!))
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