rescind the Dream Act executive order—” TRUMP: “You're going to have to. … We have to make a whole new set of standards. And when people come in, they have to come in legally—” TODD: So you're going to split up families? … You're going to deport children—” TRUMP: “Chuck. No, no. We're going to keep the families together. We have to keep the families together.” TODD: “But you're going to keep them together out—” TRUMP: “But they have to go. But they have to go. … They have to go. Chuck, we either have a country or we don't have a country.” [Meet The Press, NBC, 8/16/15] TRUMP HAS INSISTED ON USING THE OFFENSIVE SLUR “ANCHOR BABIES” Trump When Told The Term “Anchor Baby” Was Offensive: “You Mean It’s Not Politically Correct, And Yet Everybody Uses It?…I’ll Use The Word ‘Anchor Baby.” “Trump said he'd still use the term after a reporter asked him on Wednesday night in New Hampshire if he was aware the term was considered offensive. ‘You mean it’s not politically correct, and yet everybody uses it?’ Trump asked the reporter, and then asked for an alternative term to use. ‘The American-born child of undocumented immigrants,’ the reporter suggested to which Trump said, ‘I’ll use the word ‘anchor baby.'” [Talking Points Memo, 8/20/15; Trump Press Conference, 8/19/15] TRUMP MODELED HIS PLANS FOR THE MASS DEPORTATION OF UNDOCUMENTED IMMIGRATIONS ON DWIGHT EISENHOWER’S INHUMANE PROGRAM, OPERATION WETBACK Washington Post: Donald Trump’s Immigration Plan Calls For A “Deportation Force,” To Execute An “Unprecedented, Expensive Roundup Of Undocumented Residents At Home.” “The Washington Post took a close look at the immigration proposals of the five top-polling GOP candidates: Trump, retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson, Rubio, Cruz and former Florida governor Jeb Bush. … Trump’s plan calls for a wall on the border, and a ‘deportation force’ to carry out an unprecedented, expensive roundup of undocumented residents at home.” [Washington Post, 11/15/15] Donald Trump Praised Dwight Eisenhower’s Mass Deportation Program During The GOP Presidential Primary Debate In Milwaukee, Wisconsin. DONALD TRUMP: “Let me just tell you that Dwight Eisenhower — good president, great president, people liked him. ‘I like Ike,’ right? The expression ‘I like Ike?’ — moved a million and a half illegal immigrants out of this country, moved them just beyond the border. They came back. Moved them again, beyond the border, they came back. Didn't like it. Moved them way south, they never came back. Dwight Eisenhower. You don't get nicer, you don't get friendlier. They moved a million and a half people out. We have no choice. We have no choice.” [Republican Presidential Candidates Debate, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Fox Business News, 11/10/15] Donald Trump Modeled His Plan For “Humane” Mass Deportations On Eisenhower’s “Operation Wetback.” “These deportation procedures, detailed by historian Mae M. Ngai, were not anomalies. They were the essential framework of Operation Wetback — a concerted immigration law enforcement effort implemented by President Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1954 — and the deportation model that Donald Trump says he intends to follow. Trump made his affinity for Operation Wetback clear during an interview with CBS’s Scott Pelley over the weekend. Speaking on 60 Minutes Overtime, Pelley asked Trump to explain his plans for curbing illegal immigration. ‘We’re rounding them up in a very humane way, a very nice way,’ Trump said, as he has expressed before. ‘What does that roundup look like to you?’ Pelley pressed. ‘How Confidential Page 24
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