The following is a quote from an historic speech with current application.
"All Americans, not only in the states most heavily affected but in every place in this country, are rightly disturbed by the large numbers of illegal aliens entering our country. The jobs they hold might otherwise be held by citizens or legal immigrants. The public service they use impose burdens on our taxpayers. That's why our administration has moved aggressively to secure our borders more by hiring a record number of new border guards, by deporting twice as many criminal aliens as ever before, by cracking down on illegal hiring, by barring welfare benefits to illegal aliens. In the budget I will present to you, we will try to do more to speed the deportation of illegal aliens who are arrested for crimes, to better identify illegal aliens in the workplace as recommended by the commission headed by former Congresswoman [name redacted]. We are a nation of immigrants. But we are also a nation of laws. It is wrong and ultimately self-defeating for a nation of immigrants to permit the kind of abuse of our immigration laws we have seen in recent years, and we must do more to stop it."
I certainly agree with the sentiments expressed above. Now we are getting somewhere. I think Mr Trump would be well served to stand up for these positions in his speeches. However, Donald Trump did not originate the above quoted lines. They are drawn (in a direct quote) from the January 1995 State of the Union Speech given by then President Bill Clinton.
Perhaps one of life's little ironies. Perhaps just proof, once again, that God has a sense of humor. But good policy, never the less.
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