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By Andrew Kaczynski
January 28, 2016
From
the very start of his 2016 presidential campaign, Donald Trump has
appealed to hardliners and nativists on the issue of immigration,
calling undocumented Mexican
immigrants “murderers” and “rapists,” proposing the construction of a
wall on the United States’ southern border that Mexico will pay for, and
promising as president to deport the 11 million undocumented immigrants
living in the country.
Immigration
has become Trump’s signature issue and a major part of his appeal, but
the businessman did not always speak about the issue as he now does as a
presidential
candidate. At an event in Iowa less than two months after the Senate
passed a bipartisan immigration bill, Trump made an appeal to “do the
right thing” on immigration, emphasizing the humanity of immigrants
while also cautioning that any solution must be “smart
and methodical.”
“When
it comes to immigration, you have to do the right thing,” Trump said at
the FAMiLY Leadership Summit in Ames in 2013. “You have to, in your own
heart, you’re dealing
with lives, you’re dealing with human beings, you have to do the right
thing. But it’s got to be done in a very, very smart and methodical
method.”
Trump
did issue a warning to Republicans that any solution giving
undocumented immigrants the right to vote could be disastrous for the
party.
“If
you do something where they get a vote — and just remember, and I think
I was the first one to say it, I don’t know if you remember, but I said
this a long time ago
when this first came up — everyone of those people, virtually, will be
voting Democratic. They’re not voting Republican. And whether Sen. Rubio
is leading the fight — and that’s the immigration fight — or not, it’s
irrelevant. They’re just going to be voting
Democratic. That’s the way it is, and the Democrats have taken hold of
this issue, and they love the issue.”
“Do what’s right,” Trump said again. “But be very careful cause it could be a death wish for the Republican Party.”
Earlier in the speech, Trump underscored the importance of border security, saying, “You either have a country, or you don’t.”
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