Thursday, September 1, 2016

Donald Trump’s Immigration Proposals May Have a Secret Fan: Hillary Clinton

 
By Betsy Woodruff

About five minutes into Donald Trump’s big immigration speech on Wednesday night, two things were clear: The glad-handing, diplomatic Trump had stayed in Mexico, and not a damn thing had changed about his immigration plan.

The candidate gave the speech in the same Phoenix venue where he held his first major campaign rally last year. And he made the same case he’s always made: that undocumented immigrants pose an economic and national security threat to the United States, and that we need to build a Mexico-financed wall to keep them out. He also dug into the nuts and bolts of his immigration overhaul ideas, rehashing much of the policy proposal he released last summer.

The speech immediately drew sharp criticism from Hillary Clinton backers. But here’s the funny thing about 2016: Many of the proposals Trump advocated have had support from Clinton herself. 

Click here for the full article. 

Source: The Daily Beast 

No comments: