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Ben Carson is blasting fellow Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump's immigration proposals as outside the mainstream and impractical. "I think they hurt Donald Trump in the long run," Carson said in an interview with the Washington Examiner published Thursday, referring to Trump's deportation plans. "I think there are enough people who know that there are others in the race that are very reasonable. I don't think he necessarily is the representation of the Republican Party - far from it," Carson told the Examiner. -snip- "The people that are here, the 11.5 million people here, rounding them up and deporting them...

Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida said Thursday that while some illegal immigrants will have to be deported, it's unrealistic to think it can happen for all of the approximately 11 million in the United States. Mr. Rubio was asked if he would accept or denounce 2016 GOP presidential rival Donald Trump's tough deportation plan, and the Florida senator said both sides have valid points to make. "We are going to have to deport some people - otherwise, if you're not going to enforce your laws, what's the point of having those laws?" Mr. Rubio said on Fox News' "America's Newsroom."...

Earlier this week Marco Rubio went on Hannity to discuss the current state of his campaign. Rubio was asked about the 'Gang of 8' Amnesty plan he supported immediately after joining the US Senate with Chuck Schumer and Dick Durbin. Rubio doubled down. Marco Rubio: Look I live in a state that was deeply impacted by immigration and I was trying to make a difference. I was trying to make the most conservative bill possible in a senate controlled by Democrats. This morning Gang of Ocho member Marco Rubio told America's Newsroom that he will not support mass deportation of...

Hillary Clinton slammed Donald Trump for his "absurd" immigration views again, going on Twitter to denounce his newest idea for how to forcefully remove illegal immigrants. During his appearance on Morning Joe, Mika Brzezinski pressed Trump to elaborate on what he said about immigration during the GOP debate, asking him whether he would resort to a "deportation force" in order to expel approximately 11 million people from the country. "You're going to have a deportation force, and you're going to do it humanely," Trump said. From there, he went onto his signature talking points about building a wall, letting law-abiding...

Sen. Marco Rubio clarified his view on the 11 million immigrants, who are in the United States illegally. The day after a presidential debate, which exposed a continuing divide in the Republican Party on immigration, Rubio told NPR on Wednesday that he favors a path to citizenship for some, though the prospect would be very distant. "If you haven't been here very long, or you're a criminal, you will be deported," Rubio told NPR's Morning Edition. "Otherwise, you will have to come forward, pass the background check, learn English, pay a fine, because you violated the law, start paying taxes,...

ATLANTIC, Iowa - Jeb Bush says he understands the anger that illegal immigration stirs in this nation, but he argues that it's "impractical" to deport every immigrant. Instead, Bush tried to sell a crowd of about 100 Iowans on Wednesday that the best way to solve this problem is to allow immigrants to earn legal status in this country by paying a fine and learning English. They would not be allowed full citizenship, but they would be allowed to stay and work, Bush said during a 60-minute town hall meeting in Atlantic. -snip- On Wednesday in Atlantic, Bush appeared to...

Sweden has announced the introduction of temporary border checks to control the flow of migrants into the country. Swedish Interior Minister Anders Ygeman said the step had been decided because a surge in new arrivals posed a threat to public order. The controls will come into effect from midday local time on Thursday and will last initially for 10 days. EU and African leaders are to hold a second day of talks in Malta to discuss measures to stem the flow of migrants..... Nearly 200,000 migrants are expected to reach Sweden this year, more per head of population than any...

Republicans need to make gains with Hispanic voters in 2016, but that reality is complicated by the fact that more adults support Donald Trump’s hard-line stance on immigration, a new Economist Group/YouGov Poll finds.A whopping 49 percent of Republicans and independents who lean to the GOP say Trump is the presidential candidate who can best handle the issue — well ahead of Marco Rubio with 10 percent GOP support, Ted Cruz with 7 percent and Jeb Bush at 5 percent.The divide in the GOP over how to address issues stemming from illegal immigration spilled over in the fourth Republican presidential debate...

... Although Trump glibly describes "Operation Wetback" as moving undocumented immigrants "waaay south," this program was at best inhumane and at worst horrific. Back then, the government rounded up suspected undocumented immigrants and sent them deep into the Mexican interior, where they were abandoned with next to nothing. The transports across the border were reportedly "indescribable scenes of human misery and tragedy." In one instance, 88 deportees died from heat stroke in the desert. Other deportees were sent to the Mexican Gulf Coast by ship, in vessels described by historians as an "eighteenth century slave ship" or "penal hell ship."...

Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton slammed GOP rival Donald Trump on Wednesday for his latest remarks about illegal immigration. "The idea of tracking down and deporting 11 million people is absurd, inhumane, and un-American. No, Trump," Clinton wrote on Twitter. Clinton's comment came after Trump suggested during an interview on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" earlier Wednesday that he would support a "deportation force." "We have to do what we have to do," Trump said. "Other people have done it. "You're going to have a deportation force. You're going to do it humanely," Trump said, when pressed about how he would deport...

Former Majority leader Eric Cantor praised Jeb Bush's performance in last night's GOP debate. Jeb made impressed the GOPe crowd when he lectured his opponents that deporting illegals was "un-American." "Jeb Bush has a strong performance on Tuesday night's GOP debate stage and was 'really the serious candidate on stage' with his command of domestic and international policy, former Rep. Eric Cantor said Wednesday. "Clearly Jeb was back," the one-time House Majority Leader told CNN's "New Day" program.

Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) is defending his participation in drafting the "Gang of Eight" Senate amnesty bill, which offered illegal immigrants a path to American citizenship by allowing them to apply for a green card. In an interview with Sean Hannity last night, Rubio explained that he was "trying to make a difference" by participating in the 2013 process with liberal Democratic Senators like Chuck Schumer to create the "most conservative bill possible" in a Democratic led Senate. "What we underestimated is how much people distrust the federal government," he said, pointing out that Americans demanded border security first before...

Sen. Marco Rubio clarified his view on the 11 million immigrants, who are in the United States illegally. The day after a presidential debate, which exposed a continuing divide in the Republican Party on immigration, Rubio told NPR Wednesday he favors a path to citizenship for some, though the prospect would be very distant. "If you haven't been here very long, or you're a criminal, you will be deported," Rubio told NPR's Morning Edition. "Otherwise, you will have to come forward, pass the background check, learn English, pay a fine, because you violated the law, start paying taxes, and you'll...

Ugh. Former Florida Governor Jeb Bush argued that deporting America's illegal immigrants is not the answer to the country's immigration issues at Tuesday's GOP debate. Jeb called the action, "Un-American." "Twelve million illegal immigrants, to send them back, 500,000 a month, is just not possible. And it's not embracing American values.

Donald Trump on Wednesday defended his immigration proposal after being pressed repeatedly for details on how exactly he would deport millions of illegal immigrants, saying it was doable and "cheap." "We're going to have a deportation force, and you're going to do it humanely," Trump told MSNBC's "Morning Joe" in an exclusive interview, arguing that he would deport people with a policy similar to the one former President Dwight Eisenhower used to deport 1.5 million by the busload, dropping the immigrants off at remote parts of the border. -snip- Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush pushed hard against Trump's proposals in...

Jeb Bush and John Kasich Gang Up on Donald Trump at GOP Debate: Immigrant Deportation Is a 'Silly' and Un-American Idea. Donald Trump took his build-a-wall approach to immigration one step further at the fourth major Republican debate in Milwaukee Tuesday night when he vowed that, if elected president, he'd deport 11 million undocumented immigrants. That's when Ohio Gov. John Kasich jumped in to rip Trump's plan, saying, "It's a silly argument. It's not an adult argument. We all know you can't pick them up and ship them back across the border." -snip- After Bush sarcastically thanked Trump for "allowing"...

The already-bitter divide between Republican presidential candidates over immigration is deepening, a struggle that’s going to keep the party in turmoil well into 2016 – and jeopardize its chances of winning the White House next year. The clash over how to deal with immigrants in the country illegally sparked the ugliest exchanges of Tuesday's debate, as the two sides showed little taste for even a hint of compromise. They may show agreement on the basic outlines of other core conservative issues, notably tax policy, but the schism on immigration shows no signs of fading. If anything, it's deepening. Monday, a...

The Republican rift over immigration produced an early clash in Tuesday night's debate. It may also have produced something we haven't seen yet: A strong performance by Jeb Bush. Early on, Donald Trump got a question about immigration and gave his usual response: He'd build a wall, then work on deporting undocumented people already here. Then things got interesting. Ohio Gov. John Kasich said Trump's plan was wildly unrealistic, because deporting the 11.3 undocumented immigrants was simply not possible. Bush, the former Florida governor, joined the assault, saying that Trump's argument was not merely bad policy. It was also, Bush...

Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush asserts that deporting America's illegal immigrants is not the answer to the country's immigration issues at Tuesday's GOP debate.

Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and Ohio Gov. John Kasich on Tuesday teamed up to attack Donald Trump for his immigration stance, as the GOP presidential front-runner tried to swat their arguments away. "To send them back, 500,000 a month, is just not possible, and its not embracing American values and it would tear communities apart," Bush said at the Republican presidential debate in Milwaukee, Wis. "Even having this conversation sends a powerful signal. They are doing high-fives in the Clinton campaign right now when they hear this." Bush - who has seen a slide in the polls as Trump...