Donald Trump: Immigrants Are Pouring Over The Border To Vote Another reason he thinks the election is rigged
Donald Trump: Immigrants Are Pouring Over The Border To Vote
Another reason he thinks the election is rigged against him.
Laura Bassett
Senior Politics Reporter, The Huffington Post
WASHINGTON ¯ Donald Trump is accusing the government of letting undocumented immigrants “pour into the country so they can go and vote” in November ¯ the latest conspiracy theory the Republican presidential nominee is perpetuating to delegitimize the election.
“You hear a thing like that, and it’s a disgrace,” Trump told members of the National Border Patrol Council, a union that has endorsed him, at Trump Tower in New York on Friday. “Well, it will be a lot different if I get elected.”
Trump was responding to a comment from the union’s vice president, Art Del Cueto, who said immigration agents are setting aside criminal background checks because they’re “so tied up with trying to get the people who are on the waiting list to hurry up and get them their immigration status corrected.”
“They want to hurry up and fast track them so they can go ahead and vote in the election,” Del Cueto explained, apparently referring to immigrants who are waiting to become naturalized U.S. citizens.
But naturalization is a wholly separate issue from illegal border crossings. The idea that unauthorized immigrants will pour into the country to vote is flawed for a few reasons: For one, undocumented immigrants are not allowed to vote. Also, it takes about five years to become a U.S. citizen after obtaining a green card. And while conservatives have long accused undocumented immigrants of committing voter fraud, a 2013 report found that that very rarely happens.
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Another reason he thinks the election is rigged against him.
Laura Bassett
Senior Politics Reporter, The Huffington Post
WASHINGTON ¯ Donald Trump is accusing the government of letting undocumented immigrants “pour into the country so they can go and vote” in November ¯ the latest conspiracy theory the Republican presidential nominee is perpetuating to delegitimize the election.
“You hear a thing like that, and it’s a disgrace,” Trump told members of the National Border Patrol Council, a union that has endorsed him, at Trump Tower in New York on Friday. “Well, it will be a lot different if I get elected.”
Trump was responding to a comment from the union’s vice president, Art Del Cueto, who said immigration agents are setting aside criminal background checks because they’re “so tied up with trying to get the people who are on the waiting list to hurry up and get them their immigration status corrected.”
“They want to hurry up and fast track them so they can go ahead and vote in the election,” Del Cueto explained, apparently referring to immigrants who are waiting to become naturalized U.S. citizens.
But naturalization is a wholly separate issue from illegal border crossings. The idea that unauthorized immigrants will pour into the country to vote is flawed for a few reasons: For one, undocumented immigrants are not allowed to vote. Also, it takes about five years to become a U.S. citizen after obtaining a green card. And while conservatives have long accused undocumented immigrants of committing voter fraud, a 2013 report found that that very rarely happens.
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Do you believe that???