When you roll back their own comments like this, they have nothing to say.
Debate over.
Win!
From Fox News:
President Trump turned to an unlikely source Tuesday evening to find support for his hard-line
immigration policies: his predecessor, Barack Obama.
Trump tweeted a 2005 video in which Obama, then a senator, made a statement against illegal
immigration, accompanied by the comment "I agree with President Obama 100%".
"We are a generous and welcoming people here in the United States," Obama says in
the 31-second clip.
"But those who enter the country illegally and those who employ them disrespect the rule
of law and they are showing disregard for those who are following the law.
We simply cannot allow people to pour into the United States undetected, undocumented,
unchecked, and circumventing the line of people who are waiting patiently, diligently and
lawfully to become immigrants into this country."
Obama is not the only Democrat cited by Trump and his supporters to justify crackdowns on
illegal immigration.
Another is former President Bill Clinton, whose State of the Union address in 1995 featured
the following:
"All Americans … are rightly disturbed by the large numbers of illegal aliens entering
our country," Clinton said that night.
"The jobs they hold might otherwise be held by citizens or legal immigrants.
The public service they use impose burdens on our taxpayers.
That's why our administration has moved aggressively to secure our borders more by
hiring a record number of new border guards, by deporting twice as many criminal aliens
as ever before, by cracking down on illegal hiring, by barring welfare benefits to illegal
aliens."
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When you roll back their own comments like this, they have nothing to say.
Debate over.
Win!
From Fox News:
President Trump turned to an unlikely source Tuesday evening to find support for his hard-line
immigration policies: his predecessor, Barack Obama.
Trump tweeted a 2005 video in which Obama, then a senator, made a statement against illegal
immigration, accompanied by the comment "I agree with President Obama 100%".
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"We are a generous and welcoming people here in the United States," Obama says in
the 31-second clip.
"But those who enter the country illegally and those who employ them disrespect the rule
of law and they are showing disregard for those who are following the law.
We simply cannot allow people to pour into the United States undetected, undocumented,
unchecked, and circumventing the line of people who are waiting patiently, diligently and
lawfully to become immigrants into this country."
Obama is not the only Democrat cited by Trump and his supporters to justify crackdowns on
illegal immigration.
Another is former President Bill Clinton, whose State of the Union address in 1995 featured
the following:
"All Americans … are rightly disturbed by the large numbers of illegal aliens entering
our country," Clinton said that night.
"The jobs they hold might otherwise be held by citizens or legal immigrants.
The public service they use impose burdens on our taxpayers.
That's why our administration has moved aggressively to secure our borders more by
hiring a record number of new border guards, by deporting twice as many criminal aliens
as ever before, by cracking down on illegal hiring, by barring welfare benefits to illegal
aliens."
"We are a nation of immigrants," Clinton added.
"But we are also a nation of laws.
It is wrong and ultimately self-defeating for a nation of immigrants to permit the kind
of abuse of our immigration laws we have seen in recent years, and we must do more to stop
it."
Tuesday's tweet came as the Trump administration wrestles with what to do if a caravan of some
7,000 people that originated in Central America arrives at the U.S.-Mexico border.
The march appeared to begin as a group of about 160 who decided to band together in
Honduras for protection against the gangs who prey on migrants traveling alone; it snowballed
as the group moved north.
It now has thousands of people and is facing more than 1,000 miles, likely farther, to
the end of the journey.
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