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Wednesday, April 20, 2011

Trump Slams Immigrants Who 'Never Ever Achieved Anything'

wonkroom.thinkprogress.org reported that: Over the past month, real estate mogul Donald Trump has made quite a name for himself as a right-wing birther. Birtherism and nativism usually go hand in hand, so it doesn't come as a surprise that Trump was recently caught railing on immigrants at a Tea Party rally in Florida this past weekend. Yet, Trump doesn't have a problem with well-educated foreigners coming to the United States. He takes issue with the poor undocumented immigrants who "have never ever achieved anything." The majority of undocumented immigrants aren't criminals. Most of them, however, could not afford to go to "the best colleges." And as the U.S. gets older and better educated, they make up the labor population that the U.S. most depends upon. The construction and service industry that Trump has made billions off of is largely dependent on immigrant labor and it's hard to imagine that Trump's own success in the real estate and hotel business hasn't been built in part on the backs of undocumented immigrants.

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