Wall Street Journal
By Elizabeth Williamson
July 12, 2015
Donald
Trump’s position on illegal immigrants drew further reaction Sunday
from fellow Republican presidential hopefuls and from leaders of a party
looking to attract
more Hispanic voters in 2016.
“Clearly
most of the candidates have disagreed with his assertions with regard
to our border and certainly I disagree,” House Speaker John Boehner (R.,
Ohio) said on CBS.
“Other candidates out there have much more responsible positions, in my
view.”
When
he announced his bid for the GOP nomination nearly a month ago, Mr.
Trump said many Mexicans crossing the border are “rapists” who are
bringing drugs and crime into
the U.S.
Mr.
Trump has since lost commercial contracts with Macy’s, NBC, Univision
and others, but he hasn’t backed down. Saturday night before a large
crowd in Arizona, he proposed
the Mexican government pay the U.S. $100,000 for every illegal Mexican
immigrant apprehended in this country.
Republican
National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus spoke with Mr. Trump by
phone last week, urging him to tone down his rhetoric on immigration.
South Carolina Sen.
Lindsey Graham, a GOP presidential hopeful, on Sunday called on Mr.
Priebus and all in the Republican Party to publicly repudiate the
mogul’s comments.
“If
we do not reject this way of thinking—clearly, without any ambiguity—we
will have lost our way. We will have lost the moral authority in my
view to govern this great
nation,” Mr. Graham told CNN on Sunday. He added that immigration “is a
hard problem and needs to be solved.”
Mr.
Trump, in a CNN interview, has hit back at Republican critics, calling
candidates Jeb Bush and Sen. Marco Rubio—both of whom have criticized
his characterization of
immigrants—“weak on immigration.”
Mr.
Trump told CNN he had “great respect” for Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas, a GOP
candidate who has praised Mr. Trump’s speaking out on immigration. “He
had the courage to back
me up and to say that what I’m saying is right,” Mr. Trump said.
Other
2016 GOP candidates have spoken cautiously about the issue. Carly
Fiorina said Sunday that Mr. Trump “taps into an anger that I hear every
day.” Speaking on ABC,
Ms. Fiorina said, “People are angry that a common-sense thing like
securing the border or ending sanctuary cities is somehow considered
extreme. It’s not extreme, it’s common sense.”
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