Posted on 09/22/2015 10:29:42 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
(VIDEO-AT-LINK)
TRENTON — U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez became the latest critic to lash into Donald Trump's controversial plan to combat illegal immigration, saying the Republican presidential frontrunner's proposals will never be put into action.
"Let me say now: There will be no Berlin-style walls to divide us," Menendez (D-N.J.) said during a speech Sunday celebrating the sixth annual Hispanic Heritage Month at his alma mater, Union City High School, according to video posted by local news outlet Hudson County View.
"There will be no mass deportations," he added, drawing loud applause from the crowd. "There will be no denying our United States-born citizens to their constitutionally protected rights. Not now, not ever."
Menendez, the son of Cuban immigrants, did not call out Trump by name. But his comments were clearly criticizing the real estate mogul's call to deport the more than 11 million immigrants living without authorization in the U.S., build a wall across the country's border with Mexico, and end automatic citizenship for children born in the U.S. to unauthorized immigrants.
Menendez added that "we've hit a new low" in the race for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination, "with extraordinarily hateful rhetoric that diminishes Latino contributions and demonizes our community."(continued)
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Dem are fighting words.....
Menendez? Must be getting a lot of money from south of the border, problem for him is he won’t be out spending it as he sits in jail.
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