Trump Now Leads Field with 15%; Establishment Pours $103 Million Into Jeb Bush's Coffers

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The only good thing I can see coming out of this Trump deal is if a better candidate gets wise and starts talking seriously about stopping illegal immigration -- and frankly, restricting legal immigration too, for a 5 or 10 year pause.

Allah quotes an interview Trump just gave to Anderson Cooper where Trump floats the idea, naturally , of a pathway to citizenship:

TRUMP: I would do something very, very strong. Number one I wouldn’t think about anything until I built a wall. Impenetrable. There will be nobody coming in to this country illegally. That’s number one. Number two, I will get ones that are criminals, drug dealers, and the people that are forced in by Mexico and you know exactly what I am talking about, because Mexico is smarter, and sharper, and more cunning, and frankly, have much better negotiators than we have. And I would get ones that are forced in by the country of Mexico, into our country. Forced in, those people would get out and they get out fast. The rest I would be looking at very seriously. But I will–

COOPER: When you say looking at seriously would there be a pathway to citizenship or I mean, you are talking 11 million at the very least.

TRUMP: It is too early for me to say. And when you say citizenship, the most we would be talking about was legal. But let me just tell you before I even think about that. We have to build a, we have to build a wall, a real wall. Not a wall that people walk through.

Eh, sorry, I just can't get as excited as some people about mere Emotional Mirroring. I need actual policy stuff to go along with that.

posted by Ace at 08:00 PM

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