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Trump: People Who Work Their Ass Off, Not Illegals, Are The Backbone Of This Country
Real Clear Politics ^ | February 4, 2016 | RCP

Posted on 02/05/2016 9:33:25 AM PST by xzins

Edited on 02/05/2016 10:01:14 AM PST by Jim Robinson. [history]

During an interruption from a person Donald Trump described as a "Bernie plant," another audience member shouted out: "Immigrants are the backbone of this country."

"No," Trump responded. "I don't think so, darling. They're not the backbone. I'll tell you what... Let me just tell you something. You know the backbone of our country? People that came to this country legally and they worked their ass off and made this country great."

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: alieninvasion; aliens; buildthewall; deportthemall; elections; enforcethelaw; illegals; immigration; jobs; trump; trumpwasright
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To: QuigleyDU

Trump is the only candidate that doesn’t speak “politispeak”...He talks like everyday, normal Americans think and speak...


41 posted on 02/05/2016 9:53:05 AM PST by JBW1949
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To: xzins
LOL.

One second of our fifteen minutes.......

Actually, I'm very happy he's pivoting back to what's important, whoever gave him the heads up.

42 posted on 02/05/2016 9:53:22 AM PST by Lakeshark
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To: Lakeshark

Let’s go ahead and take credit.

My real computer is sitting in drying compound after the dog tipped a cup of coffee onto it and the computer began sending out whirring intermittent beeps and clunks and cascading windows.

All my files, of course.

I need a positive.

Let’s take credit, OK?


43 posted on 02/05/2016 9:57:35 AM PST by xzins (Have YOU Donated to the Freep-a-Thon? https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: GodGunsGuts

Trump was responding to a
question” from an Audience DemoncRat plant who was from S.CA touting how wonderful Illegals are because they do the work that Americans won’t do and they help build this Country.

I guess you would prefer the McCain response about Americans not willing to pick Lettuce for $50 and hour.


44 posted on 02/05/2016 9:57:36 AM PST by Kickass Conservative (Get the CDS and TDS Vaccines before it's too late.)
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To: SeaHawkFan
No proof?

That's right, no proof. Actually read the article. The case was initially tossed out. The liability finding was that he should have known...

The appeals court found that if the Trump parties had not known of the Polish workers, “they should have known.”

This is known as a legal 'deep pockets' finding. Go after the one with the money. I am sure Trump has learned from this, given he fired the person who should have known. What else you got?

45 posted on 02/05/2016 10:00:04 AM PST by Lagmeister ( false prophets shall rise, and shall show signs and wonders Mark 13:22)
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To: xzins

That’s the Trump we’ve been waiting for. Tell it!


46 posted on 02/05/2016 10:00:37 AM PST by TTFlyer
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To: xzins

Go Trump! Beautiful response...


47 posted on 02/05/2016 10:01:10 AM PST by Blue Turtle
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To: QuigleyDU

Trump definitely owns the illegal alien issue in this campaign, as he’s the guy who rightly made it front and center. And yes, he is strongly stating this without nuance. I applaud that and I wish other republican candidates would follow his lead.

But he has also strongly stated without nuance that Cruz is a nasty, ineligible liar, whom no one likes, and that Carson’s biography is unbelievable and that Carson himself is as pathological as a child molester. Yet just today we see reports that he has always liked Cruz and would not rule him out as a VP pick, and he had previously described Carson as wonderful.

I appreciate a man who makes clear, unambiguous statements, but when he then makes an equally clear, unambiguous statement of a contrary position the next day, I can’t take him seriously, and I can’t have any confidence in what he will actually do.


48 posted on 02/05/2016 10:01:44 AM PST by HoustonSam
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To: xzins
Deal. It WAS us!!!

Sorry about your computer. May it get well soon.

The best news (as you well know): There is something good going to come of it.

49 posted on 02/05/2016 10:02:17 AM PST by Lakeshark
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To: QuigleyDU

Trump pivoted back to what initially worked for him, his attacks on Cruz from the left were backfiring.

I would ask not will enough voters believe him, but can he be trusted based on his lifelong liberalism?


50 posted on 02/05/2016 10:03:33 AM PST by lifeline (The Bible alone and in its entirety is the Word of God.)
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To: Lakeshark

May the Force be with you, Lake.

:>)


51 posted on 02/05/2016 10:06:16 AM PST by xzins (Have YOU Donated to the Freep-a-Thon? https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: xzins

This is where he shines.


52 posted on 02/05/2016 10:06:19 AM PST by Maelstorm (America wasn't founded with the battle cry "Give me Liberty or cut me a government check!".)
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To: All

That time Trump had a meeting with DREAMers and said “you convinced me” on immigration

“You know, the truth is I have a lot of illegals working for me in Miami,” he told them, using the term for undocumented immigrants those in the meeting found offensive. “You know in Miami, my golf course is tended by all these Hispanics — if it wasn’t for them my lawn wouldn’t be the lawn it is, it’s the best lawn,” Pacheco recalled Trump saying.

http://hotair.com/headlines/archives/2015/08/26/that-time-donald-trump-had-a-meeting-with-dreamers-and-said-you-convinced-me-on-immigration/


Trump: Move Non-Criminal Illegals ‘Back In’ Legally, I’ll ‘Do Something’ With DREAMers

“Then we have a law, right? You’re supposed to come in legally. I would get people out, and I would have an expedited way of getting them back into the country so they can be legal.”

http://www.breitbart.com/video/2015/07/29/trump-move-non-criminal-illegals-back-in-legally-ill-do-something-with-dreamers/


Donald Trump tells immigrant advocates “You’ve convinced me”

http://nbclatino.com/2013/08/22/donald-trump-tells-immigrant-advocates-youve-convinced-me/


53 posted on 02/05/2016 10:13:12 AM PST by RasterMaster ("Towering genius disdains a beaten path." - Abraham Lincoln)
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To: xzins

See, this is a statement by Trump I can get behind. When he tones down his inner Rickles and gets back to balance is when I like him best, the attack dog crap just turns me off.


54 posted on 02/05/2016 10:13:36 AM PST by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: xzins

55 posted on 02/05/2016 10:14:59 AM PST by Fiddlstix (Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! I reallyRead it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
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To: xzins

The good Trump.


56 posted on 02/05/2016 10:17:30 AM PST by jwalsh07
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To: xzins

You betcha, Donald!!


57 posted on 02/05/2016 10:18:05 AM PST by patriot08 (5th generation Texan ...(girl type))
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To: lifeline

Trump pivoted back to what initially worked for him, his attacks on Cruz from the left were backfiring.

I would ask not will enough voters believe him, but can he be trusted based on his lifelong liberalism?


I agree. But then again, he hasn’t made one vote yet to raise taxes, open borders, destabilize the middle east, etc.


58 posted on 02/05/2016 10:23:26 AM PST by QuigleyDU
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To: xzins

“People that came to this country legally and they worked their ass off and made this country great.”

Well said! Very true.

The ironic thing is. Trump in his construction projects (when he actually did them as opposed to licensing his name) and hotels has hired more illegal aliens than most any other businessman in America.

He actually employed more illegals than just about anyone in history.

He was part of the driving force in causing them to come and stay in the first place.


59 posted on 02/05/2016 10:30:12 AM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: xzins
"People that came to this country legally and they worked their ass off and made this country great."

No argument from me...that's the truth.

60 posted on 02/05/2016 10:30:14 AM PST by SZonian (Throwing our allegiances to political parties in the long run gave away our liberty.)
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