NBC News
By Andrew Rafferty and Alex Stambaugh
September 8, 2015
Republican
presidential candidate Ben Carson knocked rival Donald Trump's
immigration plan on Tuesday, saying that deporting the country's
undocumented immigrants "sounds
really cool" but would be far too costly and complicated.
"It
sounds really cool, you know, 'Let's just round them all up and send
them back,'" Carson said. "People who say that have no idea what that
would entail in terms of
our legal system, the costs - forget about it. Plus, where you gonna
send them? It's just a double whammy."
Carson
has been gaining on Trump, the GOP frontrunner, in recent polls. An
NBC/Marist poll released Sunday found Carson has jumped to second place
in Iowa among Republican
voters, seven points behind the real estate mogul.
Trump's
immigration plan calls for deporting the estimated 11 million
undocumented workers currently in the U.S., a proposal that opponents
say would cost billions and
would be nearly impossible to execute. Carson said that he instead
favors a plan that would allow undocumented workers the chance to become
guest workers.
The
outspoken leader of the GOP field has so far refrained from knocking
Carson, though that could soon change if the former neurosurgeon
continues his steady rise in
the polls.
"I'm
hoping for Ben to really hit me at some point because I love to
counter-punch," Trump said on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" last week.
During
Carson's discussion at the Commonwealth Club of San Francisco on
Tuesday, he also said he believes God is "opening doors" for his
campaign.
"I
just said, Lord, you know it's not something that I particularly wish
to do," Carson said of a 2016 run. "But if you really want me to do it,
you'll have to open the
doors because all the pundits and all the experts say it's impossible
for someone like me to put together a national organization to be able
to raise adequate funds, to do all the things that are necessary."
"I
have no great ambition quite frankly to do this, but I feel called to
do it by a lot of my fellow Americans and the doors are opening," he
added.
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