Maybe it’s time to take a serious look at Donald Trump. Not at how his words are distorted, demonized, and mischaracterized, but rather at the essence of what he says. (Surprising, at least to me, is a small phrase The Hill injected into an essentially straightforward account (below) of Trump’s rebuke to “Jeb”: “…in which he said SOME (caps ours) undocumented immigrants are criminals and rapists.” Where else have you seen that. In almost every media account, including Fox for the most part, Trump is accused of indicting ALL of the illegal immigrants as “rapists and criminals”…not what he actually said!)
As to “Jeb”, we feel no need to take a further look at him and his candidacy. Governor Bush is as “establishment” as a Republican can get and, in our opinion, should more appropriately run as Hillary’s running mate on the Dem ticket. When Trump recalls Jeb’s “act of love” remark to characterize the illegal immigrants’ actions in defying this nation’s immigration laws, he was actually somewhat restrained.
One could make reference to the “act of love” illegal immigrant, 5 time deported, convicted felon, Juan Francisco Lopez-Sanchez delivered last week to Kathryn Steinle and her family in “sanctuarytown”, San Francisco.
(Note: This is too good to not include in this story. Sanchez’s bail was set at $5 million…according to his public defender, way unfair: ” Outside the courtroom, San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi said the bail was set too high.
“Mr. Sanchez was only in San Francisco for a very short period of time,” said Adachi. “He has no convictions in the state of California.” (But he accomplished a lot in that “short period of time”!)
Trump mocks Bush over Common Core, immigration
. . . On Saturday, Bush denounced controversial remarks Trump made in his presidential launch speech, in which he said some undocumented immigrants are criminals and rapists.
Bush called the remarks “extraordinarily ugly,” said they were meant to “inflame and incite,” and argued that they’re “not reflective of the Republican Party.”
“Trump is wrong on this,” Bush said.
Trump responded by mocking Bush for stumbling over a question about the Iraq war earlier this year, and calling attention to past comments Bush made that some illegal immigrants come to the U.S. seeking to be reunited with their families out of an “act of love.”
Here’s what great minds, other than ours, have to say on the subject:
John Hinderaker writing at Powerline: Donald Trump Was Right
But let’s examine the assertion that illegal immigrants are no more prone to criminality than anyone else. Is that claim true? If we assume there are 11 million illegal immigrants living in the U.S.–that is a commonly cited number, but no one really knows–those illegals represent a little over 3% of our population and should commit around 3% of all crimes.
Data on convictions for federal offenses are available at the U.S. Sentencing Commission’s web site. Senate committee staff have analyzed those data, and found that “38 percent of federal convictions in FY 2013 were of illegal immigrants, and nearly 43 percent were legal or illegal immigrants.” That is more than ten times the number that would be expected if illegal immigrants were, on the average, as law-abiding as the rest of us. . . . (ed. note: in the article Hinderaker provides a more detailed breakdown).
DLH
Just wondering . . . it is reported that California is now the second state in which Hispanics outnumber whites (New Mexico, my state of birth, was first). So in those states can at least poor whites claim minority status in pursuit of affirmative action programs?
R Mall
