MSNBC
By Monica Alba
August 25, 2015
As
Jeb Bush attempts to put as much distance between himself and Donald
Trump on the topic of immigration, Hillary Clinton’s campaign has been
quick to lump the two together,
calling Bush’s latest comments “extreme” and “out-of-touch.”
In
a new video, the Clinton campaign seizes on Bush’s repeated references
to “anchor babies” and his opposition to a pathway to citizenship for
the estimated 11 million
undocumented immigrants in the United States.
The
bilingual clip features back-to-back sound bites from Trump and Bush
and was released as Bush wrapped up a day of meetings and fundraising in
the border town of McAllen,
Texas. Trump visited the U.S.-Mexico border late last month.
“These
days, there’s not much daylight between Jeb Bush and his Republican
colleagues when it comes to immigration,” said Hillary for America
Director of Hispanic Media
Jorge Silva. “Since launching his presidential campaign, Bush has
proven with his extreme, out-of-touch views that he’ll do anything to
outdo Donald Trump and Scott Walker.”
Bush
has tried to differentiate himself from Trump, saying Trump’s
immigration plan “does not reflect our nation’s values” and is “not
grounded in conservative principles.”
“The
simple fact is that his proposal is unrealistic, it will cost hundreds
of billions of dollars, it will violate people’s civil liberties, it
will create friction with
our third largest trading partner,” Bush told reporters in McAllen.
Trump,
meanwhile, has seized on Bush’s “act of love” comment from last year.
“I think it’s great that he’s going to the border because I think he’ll
now find out that
it is not an act of love,” Trump said on “Fox and Friends” Monday
morning.
The
Clinton campaign released another video linking Trump and Bush last
week, which asked: “Who’s the ‘reasonable one’ again?” That video also
took aim specifically at
Bush’s “anchor babies” comments.
“If
Republicans continue to wonder how to label these children, Hillary has
already made it clear to them: They are not ‘anchor babies.’ They are
babies. They are our
neighbors. They are our families. They are part of our communities.
They are American citizens. Period,” said Clinton’s Latino Outreach
Director, Lorella Praeli, in a statement last week.
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