What If? There’s Still Time for Drama Before Election Day

Curb undocumented immigration. End sanctuary cities.

“This is a disaster for the party”, Rosario Marin, a prominent Florida Republican and former treasury secretary under President George W. Bush who immigrated to the US from Mexico at 14, said of Trump. “I feel like if you vote for Trump, that we’re going to go to war”, she said. That goal is to hand down a better life for their children. The Trumpkins have embraced Donald J. Trump as their “Orange Godking” or “Cheetoh Messiah”, since in their minds he is the only one who can bring balance to America.

But Trump is also a non-starter, Clune said.

Following the attack in San Bernardino, California in December, Trump proposed banning Muslims from entering the country until lawmakers “can figure out what is going on”.

Trump’s trade and immigration policies derive from isolationism, fueled by race-baiting fearful white supremacists, which should be repugnant to any Republican. He cited the case of a Philippine citizen living in California who was convicted of plotting to join Al Qaeda. And 68 percent said that Trump’s views on immigrants and immigration made them less likely to vote for Republicans in November. On Aug. 8, 50 national security advisers who spanned Republican administrations from Reagan to Bush wrote “none of us will vote for Donald Trump”. However, during his remarks, Trump suggested otherwise. And Mexico will pay for the wall. “One hundred percent. They don’t know it yet, but they’re going to pay for it”.

Though reports leading up to the long-awaited speech speculated that he would backtrack from his hard-line immigration stance in an attempt to garner broader appeal, he reiterated that those without papers would be deported. After flirting with a softer tone, he stuck to his hardline position in Phoenix last week, saying that anyone in the United States illegally would be subject to deportation. “That is what it means to have laws and to have a country”, he said. And on Monday, he refused to rule out granting legal status to undocumented immigrants. If you’re in this country illegally, you should return to your home country and [re] enter legally.

Trump, a NY businessman, is the Republican Party’s candidate for the presidency. He’s backed Trump, even though the celebrity real estate magnate has ridiculed McCain’s time as a prisoner of war and assailed immigrants in the US illegally, riling crucial Hispanic voters in the state and elsewhere. “I don’t think it will be successful, and I don’t think it is the right thing to do”. Her conduct, he says, “is disqualifying”.

“But the lesson in how he’s run his campaign – and frankly in how he’s run his businesses – doesn’t give you confidence that he would surround himself with a lot of capable people”, he said. “Immigration policy should be based on national interest [and] what is good for America”, Tipon said on Thursday, Sept. 1. But those speeches have been before predominantly white audiences and Trump has turned down invitations to appear before national black groups. During his August 31 address on immigration, Trump announced: “You can not obtain legal status or become a citizen of the United States by illegally entering our country”. “But I have to stay true to the party”, said Bowman, who had hoped the GOP would nominate Sen.

Getting back to the levels of almost 50 years ago, would require major cutbacks of immigration, keeping it restricted for decades, and having Congress pass new laws for that to happen, Doris Meissner, a former immigration commissioner, told the Times. “We can not allow someone who has centered his campaign around hateful and offensive attacks against people from all backgrounds to be elected as our next president”.

Trump made a campaign stop in Poughkeepsie during the primaries in April, speaking to thousands in the Mid-Hudson Civic Center. Earlier in August, the Republican nominee proposed the vetting system, alleging that the US government does not know exactly who is coming in.

“I hope (Trump) does spend a lot of time in NY”, said former state Democratic Chairman Jay Jacobs, who has been a key fundraiser and adviser for Clinton’s NY campaign. “We don’t want to have a big debate about this loophole, that loophole”, he said. “Undocumented people would have to live in fear of being deported every day”. “But if Hillary Clinton wants to say it I’m glad – I’m glad people, voters, are being reminded of it, anyway”.

African-American and Latino women tend to vote heavily for Democratic candidates, and Clinton is way ahead this year with both groups. He called for new restrictions on legal immigration, which he said is too high.

Kae Roberts calls herself a “born-and-raised Republican” and says she’s never voted for a Democrat for president.

“I think immigration is the backbone of this country”. The Filipino community will not be fooled by Trump’s hostility against our families and his desire to round us up.