We have a lot of refugees without importing more.
Donald Trump is ok with importing more immigrants into the United States.
Donald Trump comments about Mexicans and Muslim immigrants expose a hypocritical double standard. In his own words, he does not see a problem with immigrants as long as they are from Europe. The fact is politicians play the race and religion card for votes.
In 2013, Trump explicitly called for European immigrants to be allowed into the United States. In his speech, blatantly spouted another one of his "alternative fact" lies where he claimed the 11 million illegals will vote democratic. lol
According to Trump, allowing European immigrants would help the republican party gain more votes.
Trump speech was and still is, heavily promoted in white supremacist sites like, Stormfront, The Daily Stormer and The White Genocide Project.
A person commented in one of those sites, and I quote:
"We need to deport ALL invaders/illegals and then close down all immigration from everywhere on the planet EXCEPT for European countries- exclusive to ONLY European/white peoples either in the north, south, east or west (and their ethnic kinsfolk in the colonies). Then as we grow we can bring our European population back up to about 90% where it should be. The US was intended as an Anglo Saxon protestant country.
In 2014, of the estimated 50,000 undocumented Irish living in the U.S., 10,000 of them in Boston, according to the Irish embassy in Washington, D.C., only 33 Irish were deported compared to nearly 177,000 Mexicans. "The number of deportations is relatively small," Irish ambassador Anne Anderson told NPR.
In 2016, the Department of Homeland Security estimated that 93,000 Canadians overstayed their visa, more than double the amount of Mexican overstays (42,000).
For Republicans worried that creating a path to citizenship for 11 million undocumented immigrants will simply create 11 million more Democratic voters, Donald Trump has a solution. Bring in more European immigrants.Speaking at the Conservative Political Action Conference outside of Washington, D.C., on Friday, Trump warned that Republicans are on a "suicide mission" if they support immigration reform, claiming that every single illegal immigrant will end up voting Democratic.
"When it comes to immigration, you know that the 11 million illegals, even if given the right to vote -- you know, you're gonna have to do what's right -- but the fact is, 11 million people will be voting Democratic," Trump said.
No matter how pro-active Republicans are on immigration reform, they're not going to win the votes of former illegal immigrants. "That's just the way it works, and you have to be very, very careful," Trump warned.
"You could say ... that you're on a suicide mission. You're just not going to get those votes," Trump said.
Trump then immediately segued into calling for allowing more immigration to the United States from Europe.
"Now I say to myself, why aren't we letting people in from Europe?" Trump continued. "Nobody wants to say it, but I have many friends from Europe, they want to come in."