Hillary: Trump Deportation Plan ‘Inhumane,’ ‘Absurd’
We have no choice. otherwise, we don’t have a country.
There were lots of lies, distortions, and borderline insane moments at the GOP debate Tuesday night, but none were as offensive as Trump’s defense of Eisenhower’s 1950’s plan to expel Mexican immigrants from the United States.
The network said when Kerry was asked about the proposal in an interview on CNN’s Farid Zakaria Global Positioning System program, he replied: “I knew you were trying to drag me right into the middle of the presidential politics… They’re rapists. And a few, I assume, are good people”, Trump said.
Mr Trump, a billionaire New Yorker who has been leading in the polls, defended his plan to build a wall on the US-Mexico border and deport all the people living illegally in the US. The term “wetback” is considered a slur.
Black called Trump the GOP’s “alpha male” and said that “He is telling the truth about the racial realities of the immigrant invasion” when Trump “evoked Dwight Eisenhower”.
He added, “If Donald Trump thinks he’s going to be able to deport people out of NY City, he’s got another thing coming”. “That’s the way it’s supposed to be”, Trump tells MSNBC.
But a scholar who has studied Eisenhower’s program says it was neither humane, nor effective.
“We would do it in a very humane way”, he said.
Yet more than immigration policy is at stake here.
“Some 88 braceros died of sun stroke as a result of a round-up that had taken place in 112-degree heat, and [an American labor official] argued that more would have died had Red Cross not intervened”. The number would have been higher had the Red Cross not intervened. Many were transported on cargo boats from Port Isabel, Texas, to Veracruz in an operation that a congressional investigation likened to an “18 century slave ship”.
Identical blog posts were published on the white nationalist websites vdare.com and the white supremacist website dailystormer.com that approved of Trump’s allusion during Tuesday night’s debate to President Eisenhower’s deportation plan during the 1950s.
“Moved a 1.5 million illegal immigrants out of this country, moved them just beyond the border”.
Trump said such an operation would be low-priced. Didn’t like it. Moved ’em waaaay south, they never came back.
In 1954, President Dwight Eisenhower removed more than 1 million Mexicans – along with Mexican-American US citizens who got caught in the net.
Hundreds of thousands of farm workers did so, and the deportation effort was conceived as a way to pressure employers into using the guest worker program.
“They didn’t stop it”, Ngai said. “In fact, when the Senate bill was proposed, he proposed giving them work permits”.
Trump received pushback at the debate from two other Republicans-John Kasich and Jeb Bush. Are they going to be ripped out of their homes? “It’s not embracing American values”, Mr. Bush said. And it would tear communities apart. Vargas continued. “If you believe in a small government, why would you want to create a large – another large bureaucratic system to deport 11 million people?”