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TomCADem

(17,390 posts) Tue Aug 18, 2015, 10:11 PM Aug 2015

Much of Trump immigration plan not 'radical' in GOP circles

Source: USA Today

Despite criticism from some GOP presidential contenders this week of Donald Trump's immigration plan, the six-page proposal is actually a collection of what many Republicans have already been pushing on the campaign trail.

His call to scale back and reform the legal immigration system to better protect American workers? Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and former Pennsylvania senator Rick Santorum have argued that strategy for months.

Trump's plan to seek out and deport immigrants who enter the country legally but overstay their visas? That's one of the six points in former Florida governor Jeb Bush's immigration plan.

His goals of securing the border, punishing sanctuary cities in the U.S. and expanding an employer's ability to check the immigration status of new hires? Virtually all of the GOP field agrees.

Read more: http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2015/08/18/donald-trump-immigration-plan-republican-candidates/31882641/

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Much of Trump immigration plan not 'radical' in GOP circles (Original Post) TomCADem Aug 2015 OP

Dear Mr. T-Rump........ Grassy Knoll Aug 2015 #1

"You're welcome," Trump would say. "It's gonna be YOOGE!" forest444 Aug 2015 #3

Not if the mass media can help it! How much oxygen do they have in reserve to inflate the Fred Sanders Aug 2015 #4

So ironic that this should be a GOP Wellstone ruled Aug 2015 #2

We're just about the only country that doesn't note exits on visas Recursion Aug 2015 #5

Much of what Trump promotes is accepted by other GOP candidates. Donald just promotes bad ideas pampango Aug 2015 #6

Grassy Knoll

(10,118 posts)

1. Dear Mr. T-Rump........

Reply to TomCADem (Original post)

Tue Aug 18, 2015, 10:23 PM

Aug 2015

Thank You, Thank You, Thank You, for the Democratic landslide in 2016.

forest444

(5,902 posts)

3. "You're welcome," Trump would say. "It's gonna be YOOGE!"

Reply to Grassy Knoll (Reply #1)

Tue Aug 18, 2015, 10:29 PM

Aug 2015

In all seriousness, I'm increasingly convinced Bill and Hillary Clinton - longtime friends of the Donald - put him up to this. Heck, it might have even been Trump's idea in the first place.

Fred Sanders

(23,946 posts)

4. Not if the mass media can help it! How much oxygen do they have in reserve to inflate the

Reply to Grassy Knoll (Reply #1)

Tue Aug 18, 2015, 10:44 PM

Aug 2015

GOP?

Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)

2. So ironic that this should be a GOP

Reply to TomCADem (Original post)

Tue Aug 18, 2015, 10:24 PM

Aug 2015

theme. Same or similar verbiage was used in the 1950's during Ike's term. And one of the messengers was old Dirty Dick Nixon as well as Fred Koch and his Birchers. Are we looking at the same players and a new media firm named Faux News? This crap does not happen in a vacuum.

Recursion

(56,582 posts)

5. We're just about the only country that doesn't note exits on visas

Reply to TomCADem (Original post)

Wed Aug 19, 2015, 12:43 AM

Aug 2015

Meaning we're also in a situation where we literally have no idea who is or isn't in the country at a given moment. That would be a good idea to fix, I think.

pampango

(24,692 posts)

6. Much of what Trump promotes is accepted by other GOP candidates. Donald just promotes bad ideas

Reply to TomCADem (Original post)

Wed Aug 19, 2015, 06:55 AM

Aug 2015

more loudly than most others.

Republicans have gone after "illegal" immigration as the easiest way to eventually target reducing legal immigration too. They know that to have gone after legal immigration from the beginning would have been perceived as "un-American" in our pro-immigrant history and culture. After focusing on the evils of 'illegal' immigration for so long, they know that some of that will spill over to tarnishing legal immigrants as well.

A smart strategy for those who wanted to cut legal immigration from the beginning and came up with a long-term plan for doing it.

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