Newsmax) – Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump
Saturday slammed fellow challengers Sen. Marco Rubio and former Gov. Jeb Bush
for their attacks on his statements about illegal immigration — charging that
both Florida politicians are soft on the issue.
“I am very proud to be fighting for a strong and secure
border,” the billionaire businessman told Newsmax in a statement. “This is a
very important issue, which all the other candidates would have ignored had I
not started this important discussion.
“I will fix the border. No one else knows where to begin,”
Trump said.
In New Hampshire, Bush said that he was “absolutely”
offended personally by Trump’s comments in his June 16 campaign announcement.
Bush’s wife, Columba, is from Mexico.
“I don’t think he represents the Republican Party, and his
views are way out of the mainstream of what Republicans think,” Bush after
attending to Independence Day parades in the state, The Washington Post
reports. ”No one suggests that we shouldn’t control our borders —
everybody has a belief that we should control our borders.
“But to make these extraordinarily ugly kind of comments is
not reflective of the Republican Party. Trump is wrong on this.
“He’s doing this to inflame and to incite and to get to draw
attention, which just seems to be the organization principle of his campaign,”
Bush added. “It doesn’t represent the Republican Party or its values.”
Trump snapped back Saturday, saying that “Jeb Bush once
again proves that he is out of touch with the American people.
“Just like the simple question asked of Jeb on Iraq, where
it took him five days and multiple answers to get it right, he doesn’t
understand anything about the border or border security.
“In fact, Jeb believes illegal immigrants who break our laws
when they cross our border come ‘out of love,’” Trump said.
He was referring to Bush’s waffling in March over
whether he would not have ordered the Baghdad invasion in 2003 — after days of
avoiding the question and being attacked by rivals — and his comments in
an interview the month before on immigration.
Trump, too, accused Bush of trying to inflame tensions among
Hispanics.
“As everybody knows, I never said that all Mexicans crossing the border are rapists. Jeb is mischaracterizing my statements only to inflame.”
“As everybody knows, I never said that all Mexicans crossing the border are rapists. Jeb is mischaracterizing my statements only to inflame.”
The developer referenced Wednesday’s shooting of a
23-year-old San Francisco woman by an illegal immigrant, Francisco Sanchez, 45,
who has seven felony convictions and has been deported five times.
“As seen with the tragic and unnecessary death of Kathryn
Steinle this past week in San Francisco at the hands of an illegal immigrant
who was previously deported five times, our unsecured border is a national security
threat,” Trump said.
“Jeb will never be able to secure our border, negotiate good
trade deals, strengthen our military or care for our veterans.
“The biggest difference between Jeb and me on the border is
that I believe in securing our border by building a wall, which will protect
our safety, economy and national security.
“This is a vital step in making America great again.”
Earlier Saturday, Trump blasted both Rubio and former New
York Gov. George Pataki for their attacks earlier in the week.
Rubio said in a statement Friday that “Trump’s comments are
not just offensive and inaccurate, but also divisive. Our next president needs
to be someone who brings Americans together — not someone who continues to
divide.
“Our broken immigration system is something that needs to be
solved, and comments like this move us further from — not closer to — a
solution,” the first-term senator added. “We need leaders who offer serious
solutions to secure our border and fix our broken immigration system.”
Pataki wrote a letter to all the Republican presidential
candidates this week calling on them to speak out against Trump and his
remarks.
“I know Pataki well,” Trump told Fox News on Saturday. “He
was a terrible governor of New York. Terrible.
“If he would have run again, he wouldn’t have gotten
anything,” he added. “He was a failed governor.
“And, you know, as far as Rubio, he is very weak on
immigration — and he I have been saying that for some time,” Trump said.
He praised another candidate, Sen. Ted Cruz — who vowed
in a “Meet the Press” interview to be aired Sunday that he was not going to
participate in “Republican-on-Republican violence” — saying that he respected
the Texas senator.
Trump’s comments have also been attacked by former Texas
Gov. Rick Perry, and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney said in New
Hampshire Saturday that the remarks reflected poorly on the Republican Party.
“I think he made a severe error in saying what he did about
Mexican-Americans, and it’s unfortunate,” Romney told CNN during one of the
holiday parades.
When asked whether more GOP candidates should call out
Trump, Romney responded: “I think a number of them have.”
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The latest Rasmussen Poll on Immigration
indicates that the majority of Americans agree that excessive immigration has
caused high US unemployment and it is a problem that needs to be fixed.
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