Congressman Carlos Curbelo calls Trump's immigration plan a 'fraud'

EFE

August 28, 2015

Congressman Carlos Curbelo calls Trump's immigration plan a 'fraud' 

Florida Congressman Carlos Curbelo on Thursday called the immigration plan proposed by Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump a "fraud and a distraction" that is standing in the way of comprehensive immigration reform.

"Everything about Trump is a fraud, his immigration plan is a fraud ... The impact of the noise he makes causes a big distraction and stands in the way of solutions that are really going to build the immigration system for the 21st century," the lawmaker, who is of Cuban origin, told EFE in remarks at a Miami forum on immigration reform in the United States.

Curbelo, a Republican who represents Florida in the House of Representatives in Washington, said that the political aims of the real estate magnate are "highly questionable" and that in his government policy proposals he is "using the immigration problem as a personal game" for his own convenience.

In an interview with the NBC television network, the controversial presidential hopeful said that his immigration plan includes building a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border and deporting all the undocumented immigrants living in this country, more than 11 million people.

The lawmaker also commented upon Trump's changes of opinion regarding the Deferred Action program for people who arrived illegally in the United States as children, known as DACA, a program launched by President Barack Obama in 2012 which since then has prevented the deportation of more than half a million young people known as "Dreamers."

"A few years ago, apparently Trump was in favor of Dreamers legalizing their status in the country and becoming U.S. citizens, and now he's suddenly changed his mind," the legislator said.

He also pointed to the "close friendship" the multimillionaire maintains with the family of Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton.

Curbelo reaffirmed his stance in favor of immigration reform, saying that "immigration nourishes the economy ... and we have to reward all those people who want to come (here) to work."

The lawmaker on Thursday participated in a conference organized by the American Competitiveness Alliance, or ACAlliance, held at Carlos Albizu University in Miami, where participants discussed the positive impact immigration reform would have on the U.S. economy. 

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