Trump defends his push to close borders to Muslims, Mexico

My first job was in an anti-poverty agency where community residents and colleagues argued and postured, elbowed each other for the high road, and let fly accusations of racism and sexism before their second cup of coffee in the morning.

Indeed, many in Clinton’s campaign still don’t think that Trump will prevail over other Republican candidates. “Drugs will not pour through that wall”, Trump said. Hey, no offense, but I barely know who you are.

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A Charlotte activist was escorted out of a Donald Trump rally in Aiken, South Carolina, over the weekend. He said that very simply because he has failed in this campaign. “They’re waiting for the next attack”.

Meanwhile, Mosques around the United States are carefully increasing security amid growing concerns of hate crimes against American Muslims following the mass shootings in California and Paris. “We’ve opened up a very big discussion that needed to be opened up”.

By their own description, Trump supporters are frustrated and angry about the direction of the nation.

At the same time, most Republicans are glad that Trump is raising this issue.

“I defended myself. I pushed back”. It was America then.

APPHOTO NVTS134: Donald Trump speaks during the CNN Republican presidential debate at the Venetian Hotel & Casino on Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2015, in Las Vegas.

“The producer says you’re anxious I might say or do something to you during the show. No one else would do it”, a woman said of his plan to suspend Muslim immigration and tourist travel.

As the week progressed, Trump began to fill in additional details.

Back in September, Ben Carson said he “would not advocate” a Muslim becoming president. In my opinion, the struggle will go on, and it is too early to say which Republican candidate will reach the finish line. “Because our system is broken and what has happened in San Bernardino is an example of a tip of the iceberg”. And yet, according to another poll, the candidate has opened a massive lead over his competition. In fact, only those voters who specifically support Trump for the GOP nomination favor such a ban (61% to 29% opposed).

The latest Reuters/Ipsos poll, completed after Trump’s December 7 call for a ban on Muslims, showed him leading the field with support of 33 per cent of Republican voters. Then, on Sunday, vandals spray-painted graffiti about Jesus at two mosques in Hawthorne and left a fake hand grenade at one of them. “Nobody cares. And, frankly, I’m the most solid person up here”.

“I don’t feel like it’s my home anymore”, she told Breitbart News.

“I stood up at this point and I said, ‘Islam is not the enemy, close Gitmo, ‘” he recalled.

Others saw it as a badge of honor.

Needless to say, Krikorian is correct that the gap between elite and popular opinion on immigration helps explain the Trump phenomenon. “This is a coup for them and to all of our Muslim friends throughout the world”. “One’s even an atheist”.

He added that some of Trump’s proposals for fighting terrorism “would defy every norm that is American”.

“I’d vote for him over Rubio because maybe the party does need to be fractured”, a man said.

“I’m reminded of what FDR’s grandfather said”, Cruz said.

Billy Montplaisir, a 27-year-old maintenance worker who lives in Weare, New Hampshire, said that he likes “everything about” Trump – but nonetheless felt uncomfortable with the proposal. But they were assisting us – at least Gadhafi and Mubarak – in fighting radical Islamic terrorists. “He kind of went a little overboard there”.

Still, Cruz’s opposition to a religious test for immigrants puts him at odds with Trump.

The Left can’t have that, because it considers national borders discriminatory and thinks the Constitution ought to apply to just about everybody except conservatives.