Hispanics love me, Trump declares at Mexican border
Source: Yahoo! News / AP
LAREDO, Texas (AP) Donald Trump paid a visit to the Mexican border Thursday, predicting Hispanics would love him as president despite roiling the Republican race by branding Mexican immigrants rapists and criminals. His comments have sparked a feud with exasperated Republican rivals who find the billionaire's words worrisome as they court the surging bloc of Latino voters.
Trump's in-and-out border visit came as the businessman and reality TV host has dominated attention in the Republican presidential race and seen his ratings roar, though he remains a longshot candidate for the White House. He has thrust himself into America's heated immigration debate, one that has put Republicans in a bind as they try to woo Hispanics, the biggest U.S. minority and one that has voted overwhelmingly Democratic in recent presidential elections.
"There's great danger with the illegals," Trump told reporters, referring to the millions of Americans living in the U.S. illegally, many of them Hispanic. But he claimed a "great relationship" with Hispanics, even as Latino leaders have come at him with blistering criticism for his painting Mexican immigrants as criminals.
"I'll take jobs back from China, I'll take jobs back from Japan," Trump said. "The Hispanics are going to get those jobs, and they're going to love Trump."
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cstanleytech
(26,312 posts)3catwoman3
(24,026 posts)...as "the..." or "they..." it betray that the speaker thinks of them as a group for whom he has neither affection nor affinity.
Xipe Totec
(43,890 posts)Whoever he was talking to there, it was not "the Hispanics".
aggiesal
(8,921 posts)He's a bigoted, racist idiot of the first degree.
Botany
(70,552 posts)And I think he is an a-hole too. I couldn't believe the crap coming from his mouth
today ...... not only doesn't he have any real plans on what to do outside of his "I'll
get a good deal on it," but he is a fire breathing idiot too.
"Gonna build a wall to stop the illegals." D. Trump
Good thing you hispanics don't know about airplanes.
aggiesal
jtuck004
(15,882 posts)Gothmog
(145,481 posts)jmowreader
(50,562 posts)Xipe Totec
(43,890 posts)A jerk-off.
jmowreader
(50,562 posts)freshwest
(53,661 posts)steve2470
(37,457 posts)Gothmog
(145,481 posts)truthisfreedom
(23,151 posts)He's profoundly disturbing.
TexasBushwhacker
(20,209 posts)How can he force companies to make their products here? Wouldn't any measure be considered anti-business? Or does he plan on allowing the Slavery 2.0 labor practices of sweatshops and Foxconn?
This is especially rich coming from Trump, considering all of his clothing line was made outside the US. That didn't keep Macy's from charging $60 for one of his ties though.