Third 2016 Presidential Debate: on Immigration
Donald Trump:
Amnesty is unfair to people waiting on line for years
Clinton wants to give amnesty, which is a disaster and very unfair to all of the people that are waiting on line for many, many years. We need strong borders. In the audience tonight, we have four mothers whose children have been killed,
brutally killed by people that came into the country illegally. You have thousands of mothers and fathers and relatives all over the country. They're coming in illegally. Drugs are pouring in through the border. We have no country if we have no border.
Source: Third 2016 Presidential Debate in Las Vegas
Oct 19, 2016
Donald Trump:
We have some bad hombres here; I'll get them out
I was up in New Hampshire the other day. The single biggest problem is heroin that pours across our southern border. It's just pouring and destroying their youth. It's poisoning the blood of their youth and plenty of other people. We have to have strong
borders. We have to keep the drugs out of our country. We are getting the drugs, they're getting the cash. We need strong borders. We cannot give amnesty. I want to build the wall. We have some bad hombres here, and we're going to get them out.
Source: Third 2016 Presidential Debate in Las Vegas
Oct 19, 2016
Hillary Clinton:
FactCheck: Yes, voted for a partial wall on Mexican border
[Clinton and Trump went back-and-forth on border security]:- CLINTON: "I have been for border security for years; I voted for border security in the US Senate."
- TRUMP: "Hillary Clinton wanted the wall in 2006 or thereabouts."
- CLINTON:
I voted for border security, and there are some limited places where [a wall] was appropriate."
- Who's right?
They both can claim to be correct here, based on these two YES votes by Hillary as Senator:-
Vote #235 on June 28, 2007 on S.1639, the McCain-Kennedy Immigration Reform Bill: "Establishes specified benchmarks which must be met [before comprehensive reform, including] operational control of the border with Mexico; Border Patrol increases; border
barriers, including vehicle barriers, fencing, radar, and aerial vehicles.
- Vote #262 on Sept. 29, 2006 on H.R.6061, the Secure Fence Act:[including] "physical infrastructure enhancements to prevent unlawful border entry."
Source: OnTheIssues Fact-checking on Third 2016 Presidential Debate
Oct 19, 2016
Hillary Clinton:
Ripping families apart would rip our country apart
I don't want to rip families apart. I don't want to send parents away from children. I don't want to see the deportation force that Trump has talked about in action in our country. It means you would have to have a massive law enforcement presence, where
law enforcement officers would be going school to school, home to home, business to business, rounding up people who are undocumented. That is an idea that is not in keeping with who we are as a nation. It's an idea that would rip our country apart.
Source: Third 2016 Presidential Debate in Las Vegas
Oct 19, 2016
Hillary Clinton:
Vet immigrants; ask Muslim-Americans to help us
Q: What about Syrian refugees and Donald Trump's complaint that letting them in would be a "Trojan horse" for terrorists?CLINTON: I am not going to let anyone into this country who is not vetted. We are going to be very careful, thorough vetting.
That does not solve our internal challenges with ISIS and our need to stop radicalization, to work with American Muslim communities who are on the front lines to identify and prevent attacks.
Source: Third 2016 Presidential Debate moderated by Fox News
Oct 19, 2016
Hillary Clinton:
Focus on deporting violent criminals & path to citizenship
I have been for border security for years. I voted for border security in the United States Senate. And my comprehensive immigration reform plan of course includes border security. But I want to put our resources where I think they're most needed:
Getting rid of any violent person. Anybody who should be deported, we should deport them.We are both a nation of immigrants and we are a nation of laws and that we can act accordingly. And that's why I'm introducing comprehensive immigration reform
within the first 100 days with the path to citizenship.
Now, what I am also arguing is that bringing undocumented immigrants out from the shadows, putting them into the formal economy will be good, because then employers can't exploit them
and undercut Americans' wages. I want to get everybody out of the shadows, get the economy working, and not let employers exploit undocumented workers, which hurts them, but also hurts American workers.
Source: Third 2016 Presidential Debate, moderated by Chris Wallace
Oct 19, 2016
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