JD Vance on Principles & Values : Oct 27, 2024
No inconsistency in loyalty to Constitution and to Trump

Donald Trump on Corporations : Oct 16, 2024
FactCheck: Didn't get John Deere to keep plants in USA

CNN Oct. 16. 2024: Fact check: John Deere says Trump's story about how he saved US jobs with a tariff threat is fictional. A search of news articles and corporate press releases showed nothing about any such John Deere announcement the day prior. And in response to Trump's story, a John Deere spokesperson told The Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg News that it had not changed its plans or announced any such changes.

Donald Trump on Free Trade : Oct 16, 2024
High tariffs ensures cars made in Mexico won't sell here

TRUMP: Could I ask you, how are those plants that you mentioned, [I asked the car manufacturers]. "those giant plants that you're building in Mexico, how is that coming along, have you finished them?" "No, sir, they abandoned the project when they heard you're running. They abandoned the project when they saw that you were winning and doing well." I said, "wow, how beautiful," all the things. I told them, I told them, and I said it publicly, they're not going to sell one car into the United States. I said, "if I run this country, if I'm going to be president of this country, I'm going to put a 100, 200, 2,000 percent tariff, they're not going to sell one car into the United States," because we're not going to destroy our country, because I know you're an anti-tariff guy, but I'm the exact opposite.

JD Vance on Welfare & Poverty : Oct 2, 2024
Biden/Harris plan drove cost of housing higher by 60%

TW: The bold forward plan that Kamala Harris put out there is talking about this housing issue. The one thing is there's 3 million new houses proposed under this plan with down payment assistance on the front end. To get you in a house. A house is much more than just an asset to be traded somewhere. It's foundational to where you're at. As far as the housing goes, I've seen it in Minnesota, 12% more houses in Minneapolis, prices went down on rent, 4%. It's working.

JD Vance on Free Trade : Oct 1, 2024
Experts lied about cheaper goods from offshoring

Donald Trump on Free Trade : Sep 10, 2024
China building auto plants in Mexico: we'll impose tariffs

TRUMP: That didn't happen under Donald Trump. Let me just tell you, they lost 10,000 manufacturing jobs this last month. They're all leaving. They're building big auto plants in Mexico. In many cases owned by China. They're building these massive plants, and they think they're going to sell their cars into the United States because of these people. What they have given to China is unbelievable. But we're not going to let that. We'll put tariffs on those cars so they can't come into our country. Because they will kill the United Auto Workers and any auto worker, whether it's in Detroit or South Carolina or any other place.

Donald Trump on Immigration : Jul 12, 2024
Egregious failures of Kamala as border czar

True to form, Harris put America last. She must answer questions on what she knew when, and why she defrauded the American people. Biden and Harris abetted an invasion at our border, fueled inflation, lowered real wages, raised the tax burden on the middle class, weakened America's standing in the world, emboldened our enemies, allowed criminals to control our streets, and prioritized special interest groups over families.

Kamala Harris on Immigration : Jun 13, 2024
Partner with Mexico to address the root causes of migration

Donald Trump on Immigration : Mar 7, 2024
I built 571 miles of wall & made safest border in US history

When I left office, we gave Joe Biden the most secure border in U.S. history--we gave him Remain in Mexico--very tough to get, but I got it, Safe Third Agreements, the Asylum ban, Title 42, 571 miles of border wall, Rapid Deportations, and much more. We had the safest border in the history of our country.

As soon as he got in, Crooked Joe and his Radical Left lunatics deliberately dismantled each and every one of those policies that were so good that gave us this best border, according to Tom Holman, according to Brandon Judd, the top people. They said it was the single best border we've ever had in recorded history. What's happened now is a horror show. The country--our country--is being laughed at all over the world.

Nikki Haley on Drugs : Jan 18, 2024
Fentanyl via northern border too; create addiction centers

What I have found out from New Hampshire is, we don't talk enough about the northern border. The southern border is in terrible shape, but 500 people on the terrorist watch list, have come through the northern border. You look at the fentanyl and all that. I learned that from [New Hampshire], because you have been affected by it every day.

America refuses to deal with addictions, which we have to deal with. And there are answers to this. Let's release [federal] resources, so that every state can do what they need to, to get the mental health facilities that we need to have in our states, to have the addiction centers.

Ron DeSantis on Immigration : Jan 16, 2024
Remain in Mexico; no benefit from military-age males

DeSANTIS: It's not limited to just what's coming from Biden, but we're going to start there and go through that. So, obviously, all of them that we can do there. You have millions more people coming in. That puts the screws on the housing. So, you have to enforce the law. We're going to definitely start with those Biden folks because I think it was reckless that he led all these people in illegally. It's not just people coming from Mexico or Central America. Yes, there's a lot from a hundred different countries--China, Middle Eastern countries, Russia. And you know what a lot of it is? Military age males. Do you think that's going to be a benefit for this country to have those folks coming in that we know nothing about? I think it's a security risk and we need to act.

Ron DeSantis on Immigration : Jan 10, 2024
Charge fees on worker remittances to foreign countries

DESANTIS: We will build a wall. We will actually have Mexico pay for it, in the way that I thought Donald Trump [meant]. We're going to charge fees on remittances that workers send to foreign countries, billions of dollars. We'll build the wall. He also promised record deportations. Donald Trump deported fewer people than Barack Obama did when he was president. Biden's let in 8 million people just in four years. They all have to go back. We have to enforce the rule of law in this country. Biden has failed in this endeavor. He has not taken care that the laws of this country be faithfully executed. Do not trust Nikki Haley with illegal immigration--she's on tape at the Aspen Institute saying it's disrespectful to illegal aliens to say that they're criminals. They're violating the law. That's what's disrespectful.

Ron DeSantis on Drugs : Dec 6, 2023
Shoot dead anyone crossing the border with fentanyl

DeSantis: The drug cartels are invading our country and they are killing our citizens by the tens of thousands every year. The elites in DC, they don't care that fentanyl is ravaging your community. They don't care that illegal aliens are overwhelming our community.

Q: And does that mean shooting first?

DeSantis: It means you're going to categorize them as foreign terrorist organizations just like we would anywhere. When I was in Iraq, Al-Qaeda wasn't wearing a uniform. You'd see anyone walking down the street, they all had man dresses on. You didn't know if someone had a bomb, an IED attached or not. And so, you had to make a judgment.

Vivek Ramaswamy on Drugs : Dec 6, 2023
Annihilate fentanyl labs AND deal with demand side

Vivek Ramaswamy: To the contrary, I don't think it's going to have to come to that if we deal with the actual demand side problem that we also have in this country. The easy part is talking about how we're going to use our military to secure the border. But the harder part is dealing with the mental health epidemic raging across this country like wildfire. And there's a reason why after the opioid crisis you see fentanyl. The real false promise here is thinking that we're going to have dealt with that underlying mental health epidemic in this country by just dealing with the demand side of it.

Nikki Haley on Foreign Policy : Dec 6, 2023
Iran, China, and Russia want to destroy the West

We've got to get the foreign infiltration out of our country, whether it's in our schools, whether it's on our social media, whether it's we need to stop all foreign lobbying that's happening to members of Congress, and we need to start America again. Until we do that, we are going to be at threats.

We've got to look at, Iran, China and Russia want to destroy the West. We have to start acting strong again. We've got to start protecting Americans. Right now, Americans don't feel protected, and we're not doing anything to strengthen it. So, Joe Biden continues to be a problem, that'll change on election day.

Nikki Haley on Free Trade : Dec 6, 2023
End trade relations with China until fentanyl stopped

Ron DeSantis on Government Reform : Dec 6, 2023
Bring a reckoning & wreak havoc on this bureaucracy

Ron DeSantis: I would just remind people that is not how he governed. He didn't even fire Dr. Fauci. He didn't clean up the swamp. He said he was going to drain it. He did not drain it. He said he was going to build the wall and have Mexico pay for it. We don't have the wall. He did say in 2016 he'd have the largest deportation program in history. He deported less than Barack Obama did when Barack Obama was president. Some of these policies he ran on in '16, I was cheering him on then, but he didn't deliver it. Here's what I can promise people. 100% of the things I promised as governor, I delivered on those promises. That's what I'll do for you as president. I will go in and wreak havoc on this bureaucracy. You will see people fired and we are going to bring a reckoning for how this government handled COVID-19 and the lockdown.

Donald Trump on Principles & Values : Dec 6, 2023
OpEd: "I am your retribution" means he'll exact retribution

Gov. Chris Christie: He's made it very clear. There's no mystery to what he wants to do. He started off his campaign by saying, "I am your retribution." [Trump] wants to be back as president because he wants to exact retribution on anyone who has disagreed with him, anyone who has tried to hold him to account for his own conduct. Yet at the first debate, my three colleagues on this stage, when asked if he would be convicted of federal felonies, [said] that they would still support him, even if convicted of felonies. Federal felonies which involve our election process, federal felonies which involve the most sensitive of our governmental secrets. Do I think he was kidding when he said he was a dictator? Be careful of what you're going to get if you ever got another Donald Trump term. It's Donald Trump first.

Doug Burgum on Homeland Security : Nov 11, 2023
Tuition assistance & tax exemption for military & veterans

Continuing efforts to make N.D. the most military-friendly state were bolstered by several pieces of legislation signed by Burgum, including bills that:
• Exempt military pay, and military retirement pay, from state income tax for active duty, National Guard and Reserve members.
• Allow North Dakota National Guard members who attend college out-of-state to qualify for State Tuition Assistance.
• Allow child care providers licensed by the U.S. Department of Defense to operate in North Dakota with their DOD license.
• Burgum also pushed for funding for a North Dakota Military Museum.

Ron DeSantis on Crime : Nov 8, 2023
We're going to shoot drug smugglers stone cold dead

Nikki Haley on Drugs : Nov 8, 2023
We'll send special operations in to take out drug cartels

Ron DeSantis on Immigration : Nov 8, 2023
Terrorists have come in through our southern border

Joe Biden on Immigration : Oct 6, 2023
Promised "not another foot of wall"; but added Southern wall

PROMISE BROKEN: (Reuters, 10/6/23): Biden's administration said it will add sections to a border wall to stave off record migrant crossings from Mexico. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said the construction project was appropriated during the prior administration and the law requires the government to use the funds. "We have repeatedly asked Congress to rescind this money but it has not done so and we are compelled to follow the law," he said.

Doug Burgum on Drugs : Sep 27, 2023
Helicopters from North Dakota to fight drugs in Mexico

Nikki Haley on Drugs : Sep 27, 2023
Special Operations against Mexican & Chinese drug cartels

HALEY: Special operations is how we deal with our terrorists. Mexico's not being a good partner if they're letting the cartels get away with what they're getting away with. We will send in our special operations and we will take out the cartels; we'll take out their operations; we'll take out anything that's doing it.

But we're going to go after China because China is the one sending the Fentanyl in the first place. And we will end all normal trade relations until China stops sending Fentanyl. And then we'll do the special operations and we'll get it from both sides. This is where President Trump went wrong. He focused on trade with China. We need to start focusing on what keeps Americans safe. As your president, I will make sure every American is safe, and we'll do whatever it takes to make that happen.

Tim Scott on Immigration : Sep 27, 2023
Close the border to fentanyl; reinstate Title 42

Mike Pence on Drugs : Aug 23, 2023
We used economic pressure to bring Mexico to the table

Asa Hutchinson on Drugs : Aug 23, 2023
Expand tools for addiction counseling

Ron DeSantis on Drugs : Aug 23, 2023
Send US troops into Mexico to fight drug cartels

DESANTIS: Yes, and I will do it on day one. Here's the thing. The cartels are killing tens of thousands of our fellow citizens. You want to talk about a country in decline? You have the cartels controlling a lot of part of your Southern border? We have to reestablish the rule of law, and we have to defend our people. The president of the United States has got to use all available powers as commander in chief to protect our country and to protect the people. So, when they're coming across, yes, we're going to use lethal force. Yes, we reserve the right to operate. How many more tens of thousands are we going to let to die [from fentanyl]? That is happening all across this country because of the poison that they are bringing in. So, as president, would I use force? Would I treat them as foreign terrorist organizations? You're darn right I would.

Asa Hutchinson on Immigration : Aug 23, 2023
Lethal force on border as needed; bring in Mexico as partner

HUTCHINSON: There would be lethal force used by the Border Patrol, law enforcement as needed to protect the border, absolutely. The military has to be used for intelligence-gathering purposes. When I was in the Bush administration, we went down there and met with President Vicente Fox of Mexico and asked his help on going after the cartels. And he looked at me and said, "they're a problem to us as well." And so we joined together, and we took down the Arellano-Felix brothers leading the Tijuana Cartel. Cooperation makes a difference. We cannot be successful going against the cartel unless we bring in Mexico as a partner. We have to use economic pressure to accomplish that. President Obrador has not been helpful, and we have to use economic pressure that this administration is not using. The rule of law has to matter on both sides of it.

Vivek Ramaswamy on War & Peace : Aug 23, 2023
Defend our border, not Ukraine's

A: I would not support it. I think that this is disastrous, that we are protecting against an invasion across somebody else's border, when we should use those same military resources to prevent across the invasion of our own southern border. We are driving Russia further into China's hands. The Russia-China alliance is the single greatest threat we face. And I find it offensive, that we have professional politicians on the stage that will make a pilgrimage to Kyiv, to their Pope, Zelenskyy, without doing the same thing for people in Maui or Chicago. Ukraine is not a priority for the United States. And I think that the same people that took us into Iraq War--you not start another no-win war. And I do not want to get to the point where we're sending our military resources abroad when we could be better using them here at home.

Asa Hutchinson on Drugs : Jul 30, 2023
Use economic pressure on Mexico to fight against fentanyl

Chris Christie on Immigration : Jul 16, 2023
Trump didn't do anything to make immigration laws stronger

Doug Burgum on Immigration : Jun 13, 2023
Sending National Guard to Texas strengthens border security

Chris Christie on Immigration : Jun 12, 2023
Send the National Guard to secure the southern border

Nikki Haley on Immigration : Jun 4, 2023
We will defund sanctuary cities once and for all

Tim Scott on Immigration : May 22, 2023
Expel illegal immigrants, fully fund the border wall

• Expel illegal immigrants trying to enter the country by reinstating Title 42 to combat the fentanyl crisis.
• Fully fund the construction of the wall at the southern border, while strengthening law enforcement's capabilities to detect drug smugglers and human traffickers before they enter our country.
• Recognize drug cartels as terrorists and let the world's greatest military power defend our borders and our lives.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Immigration : May 15, 2023
War on Drugs creates desperate conditions south of border

Kennedy Jr. has recently knocked Biden's immigration policies, criticizing him for not closing the border. "It's not racist or insensitive to say that we need to close our borders and have an orderly immigration policy. I would expand legal immigration to this country that's orderly, that makes sense for our country, but also that our borders are impervious," he said, according to the New York Post.

He also tweeted that he would change U.S. policy in Central America, including ending the "War on Drugs" and "neoliberal extraction of resources," which he said "create desperate conditions south of the border" that compel migrants to seek to immigrate to the U.S.

Nikki Haley on Immigration : May 14, 2023
Instead of catch and release, let's go to catch and deport

Asa Hutchinson on Immigration : May 2, 2023
Biden administration showing weakness along southern border

Vivek Ramaswamy on Jobs : May 1, 2023
End affirmative action, end unlawful DEI indoctrination

REVIVE AMERICAN NATIONAL IDENTITY
• Use the military, including drones, to secure our southern border
• End affirmative action: repeal Lyndon Johnson's executive order 11246
• Protect American children: ban addictive social media under age 16 & gender confusion "care" for minors
• Make political expression a civil right & end unlawful DEI indoctrination
• Withhold federal funding for cities that refuse to protect Americans from violent crime
• [Note: DEI = Diversity, Equity, Inclusion]

Larry Elder on Immigration : Apr 30, 2023
We must restore the rule of law to our border with Mexico

Donald Trump on Drugs : Feb 7, 2023
Drug cartels smuggle poison to kill our children

JD Vance on Immigration : Nov 1, 2022
Secure OUR border, instead of foreign borders

A: Strongly Agree. If we spent as much time concerned about securing our borders as much as we do securing the borders of other countries, we would be a much safer and prosperous country.

Q: State and federal funds shall be denied to any public or private entity, such as a sanctuary city, that is not in compliance with immigration laws.

A: Strongly Agree

Q: Who should be allowed to immigrate to the U.S. and under what circumstances?

A: Legal immigration should happen based on merit and skills, not family relationships as it currently is. I support the Raise Act, which would change our legal immigration system to put our citizens first.

JD Vance on Drugs : Oct 17, 2022
Close the border to end drug trafficking zone

[Is that true that drugs come across the southern border?] Most of the fentanyl seized by U.S. border authorities is seized at official checkpoints, not in between ports of entry. Drug policy and immigration experts have told PolitiFact that physical barriers at the border probably won't stop drugs from coming in, because drug cartels find ways around them--including through tunnels and under legal goods in trailer trucks that seek to cross the border legally. Annual fentanyl seizures at the southwest border have been steadily increasing since at least fiscal year 2016, the Drug Enforcement Administration has reported.

JD Vance on Drugs : Oct 10, 2022
Border wall would stop flow of fentanyl

Vance said, "What have you actually done to reduce the flow of fentanyl so that people like my family are not as affected by this terrible addiction crisis?"

Ron DeSantis on Immigration : Jan 11, 2022
Re-route illegal aliens in Florida to sanctuary states

Ron DeSantis on Immigration : Sep 29, 2021
End catch and release, finish the border wall

Kristi Noem on Immigration : Jul 11, 2021
First governor to send National Guard to southern border

Ron DeSantis on Free Trade : Jul 6, 2021
Expands program to engage new international markets

JD Vance on Immigration : Jul 2, 2021
Those who complain about southern border get called racist

Doug Burgum on Immigration : Mar 23, 2021
Strongly opposes transporting migrants to North Dakota

"As a northern border state, we have seen unsettling media reports that North Dakota is being considered by DHS officials as a site for the relocation of migrants detained at the south Texas border. Our administration does not support the transfer to North Dakota of migrants who have entered the US without permission. While our state willingly participates in the resettlement of legal, thoroughly vetted refugees, we strongly oppose any efforts to alleviate the southern border crisis of the overwhelming influx of migrants by transporting them to northern border states. We urge the administration to address this crisis at the source, fully enforce federal immigration laws, and reassure northern border states that relocation is not on the table."

Joe Biden on Immigration : Feb 2, 2021
Focus on causes of migration within Northern Triangle

PROMISE KEPT:(Executive Order on Causes of Migration, 2/2/21): We will work closely with international organizations and governments in the region to: establish a comprehensive strategy for addressing the causes of migration; build, strengthen, and expand Central American countries' asylum systems and resettlement capacity; and increase opportunities for vulnerable populations to apply for protection closer to home.

OnTheIssues ANALYSIS: Biden's order includes the Northern Triangle and "causes of migration"--contrasting Trump's focus on border enforcement, which included the "Remain-in-Mexico policy" for Northern Triangle asylum seekers.

Joe Biden on Abortion : Jan 28, 2021
Rescind Mexico City Policy "global gag rule"

PROMISE KEPT: (Time magazine, 1/28/21): Biden will rescind the Mexico City policy--sometimes called the "global gag rule"--in another rollback of a Trump policy that will bring major changes to reproductive health and rights around the world.

OnTheIssues ANALYSIS: The Mexico City Policy has been instituted and rescinded by Executive Order each time the president's party changed. Reagan initiated the policy in 1985; Clinton rescinded it in 1993; Bush reinstated it in 2001; Obama rescinded it in 2009; Trump reinstated it in 2017.

Donald Trump on Immigration : Oct 15, 2020
Cut immigration to protect Americans from infected Mexicans

Mike Pence on Free Trade : Oct 7, 2020
Vote against USMCA was a vote against jobs

Mike Pence on Energy & Oil : Sep 22, 2020
Build Keystone XL; drill ANWR

[Office of Rep. Mike Pence, 1/18/12]: "With unemployment at a heartbreaking 8.5 percent, I am profoundly disappointed that the president has rejected the permit for the Keystone XL pipeline. In saying 'no' to the Keystone XL pipeline, the president is saying no to energy independence and to thousands of good-paying new jobs. I urge the president to reconsider his opposition to this job-creating pipeline.'"

Donald Trump on Immigration : Aug 28, 2020
FactCheck: Only 5 out 300 miles of wall are in new places

FactCheck: As of August 7, some 275 miles of barriers had been constructed on the US border with Mexico -- but just 5 of those miles were erected in places where no barriers had existed before. 245 miles were erected in place of old barriers, while 25 miles of new "secondary wall" were erected to fortify primary barriers. The Trump-era replacement barriers are often much larger than the older ones they are replacing.

Bernie Sanders on Corporations : Mar 8, 2020
Nothing personal against billionaires, but enough is enough

Mike Pence on Immigration : Feb 27, 2020
National security starts with border security

Crowd: Build that wall!

Pence: We are building it. we are building it.

Bernie Sanders on Free Trade : Feb 7, 2020
Not one word in USMCA that deals with climate change

Donald Trump on Free Trade : Feb 4, 2020
Fact-Check:USMCA mostly a cosmetic refreshing of NAFTA

Fact -Check: The agreement updates NAFTA, covering things such as digital commerce, which barely existed when the original deal was signed a quarter-century ago. But despite the president's claims, USMCA is mostly a cosmetic refreshing of NAFTA, not a wholesale replacement. On the whole, the USMCA's economic effects are expected to be modest. The main benefit of the deal is that it avoids the disruption that would have come had Trump made good on his threat to scrap NAFTA with no replacement.

Bernie Sanders on Free Trade : Dec 19, 2019
USMCA agreement does not prevent outsourcing or talk climate

Sanders: I voted against NAFTA, voted against PNC with China, agreements that cost four million decent-paying jobs. I don't agree this is going to be a great job creator. This is a modest improvement that would allow Mexican workers to negotiate decent contracts. But it is not going to stop outsourcing. It is not going to stop corporations from moving to Mexico. We need a trade policy that stands up for workers, stands up for farmers, and, by the way, the word "climate change" is not discussed, which is an outrage. I will not be voting for this agreement.

Sen. Amy Klobuchar: I am voting for it; I believe we have a change with this agreement. We've got better labor standards, better environmental standards, and a better deal when it comes to the pharmaceutical provision. While Senator Sanders is correct, there are some issues with it, is much better than the one originally proposed.

Donald Trump on Principles & Values : Sep 14, 2019
We don't win anymore; we lose to China and Mexico

The next day on CNN, Trump carried through on the threat. "You could see there was blood coming out of her eyes, blood coming out of her whatever. In my opinion, she was off base." Had Trump just accused Megyn of attacking him because she was menstruating? It sure sounded that way, but the nuances could be debated forever, and they were.

Bernie Sanders on Abortion : Sep 4, 2019
Totally absurd for U.S. to limit birth control abroad

SANDERS: The answer is yes. And the answer has everything to do with the fact that women in the United States of America have a right to control their own bodies and make reproductive decisions. And the Mexico City agreement, which denies American aid to those organizations around the world that are--that allow women to have abortions or even get involved in birth control to me is totally absurd. So I think, especially in poor countries around the world where women do not necessarily want to have large numbers of babies, and where they can have the opportunity through birth control to control the number of kids they have, it's something I very, very strongly support.

Bernie Sanders on Corporations : Jul 30, 2019
Corporate America doesn't give one damn about workers

SANDERS: Elizabeth is absolutely right. If anybody here thinks that corporate America gives one damn about the average American worker, you're mistaken. If they can save five cents by going to China, Mexico, or Vietnam, or anyplace else, that's exactly what they will do. As president, let me tell you what I will do. These guys line up at the federal trough. They want military contracts. They want all kinds of contracts. Well, under my administration, you ain't going to get those contracts if you're throwing American workers out on the street.

Bernie Sanders on Foreign Policy : Jun 27, 2019
Address source of problem with Mexico & Northern Triangle

Kristi Noem on Free Trade : Jun 20, 2019
Supports trade deal with Mexico/Canada

Doug Burgum on Free Trade : Jun 20, 2019
Supports trade deal with Mexico/Canada

Bernie Sanders on Immigration : Jun 2, 2019
Comprehensive immigration reform; stop attacking allies

Howie Hawkins on Immigration : May 19, 2019
Demand open borders where movement between nations is free

We will demand open borders where movement between nations is free, like it is in the European Union. International borders should be authentic fair-trade zones where people are free to travel across borders for work, shopping, or recreation. People crossing international borders would be required to present their identification at a border crossing. Only people wanted for criminal charges or terrorist organization affiliation would be detained.

Asa Hutchinson on Free Trade : Apr 5, 2019
$2.1B Arkansas trade with Canada & Mexico

We can't know for sure the harm the state would suffer without an agreement but the loss in trade and jobs would be significant. The numbers show the benefit when we can freely and fairly export to our North American partners. Canada is Arkansas's largest trading partner. Our neighbor to the north imported more than $1.2 billion worth of Arkansas products in 2018. That is almost 19 percent of our total exports. Mexico, our second-largest partner, imported nearly $900 million worth of our goods last year.

We can't overemphasize the importance of the free flow of commerce between our North American neighbors. I have written our Senate leadership and asked them to ratify this trade agreement, which is so important to Arkansas.

Donald Trump on Immigration : Apr 5, 2019
Use threat of tariffs to get Mexico's cooperation

The system is full. We can't take you anymore. Whether it's asylum, whether it's anything you want, it's illegal immigration, can't take you anymore.

Donald Trump on Corporations : Mar 2, 2019
Companies will pay dearly for moving jobs out of US

Last year, we lost 800--this for many years--almost $800 billion on trade. It's not sustainable. You can't do that. And now we're making great trade deals. I say, India is a very high-tariff nation. They charge us a lot. When we send a motorcycle to India, it's 100 percent tariff. They charge 100 percent. When India sends a motorcycle to us, we brilliantly charge them nothing. I want a reciprocal tax, or at least I want to charge a tax. It's called a mirror tax, but it's a reciprocal tax.

Mike Pence on Abortion : Mar 1, 2019
Stands for unborn against Democratic "culture of death"

Mike Pence on Immigration : Mar 1, 2019
Unsecured Mexican border is a national emergency

Kamala Harris on Immigration : Feb 27, 2019
Reform system, against "vanity project" of border wall

Bernie Sanders on Immigration : Feb 25, 2019
Real national emergency is creating path to citizenship

Donald Trump on Drugs : Feb 6, 2019
FactCheck: Wall wouldn't affect drugs coming from Mexico

FACT-CHECK: It's correct that lethal drugs do come across the border, and drug overdose deaths are up: 70,237 people died from an overdose in 2017. But Trump--in pushing for a border wall--tends to ignore that the vast majority of hard drugs from Mexican cartels come into the U.S. through legal ports of entry, which wouldn't be affected by a wall.

According to the 2018 National Drug Threat Assessment by the DEA, "The most common method employed by these [Mexican drug cartels] involves transporting illicit drugs through US POEs (legal port-of-entry crossing points) in passenger vehicles with concealed compartments or commingled with legitimate goods on tractor trailers." The Trump administration knows this: the DHS Secretary said in April 2017 that illegal drug traffic "mostly comes through the ports of entry."

Bernie Sanders on Free Trade : Feb 6, 2019
FactCheck: NAFTA displaced 851,700; but net loss 15,000/year

FACT-CHECK: One analysis of the Clinton-era North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) found that about 851,700 U.S. jobs were displaced by the U.S. trade deficit with Mexico between 1993 (shortly before NAFTA was implemented) and 2014. That's a data point that was cited by Bernie Sanders during his 2016 campaign, when he frequently decried job losses due to NAFTA.

A 2014 study found that while NAFTA has caused about 203,000 jobs to be displaced by NAFTA-related imports annually, imports support 188,000 new jobs, leading to a net loss of only about 15,000 annually.

And the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service wrote in 2017 that "in reality, NAFTA did not cause the huge job losses feared by the critics... because trade with Canada & Mexico accounts for a small percentage of U.S. GDP."

Donald Trump on Free Trade : Feb 6, 2019
FactCheck: NAFTA displaced 851,700; but net loss 15,000/year

FACT-CHECK: One analysis of the Clinton-era North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) found that about 851,700 U.S. jobs were displaced by the U.S. trade deficit with Mexico between 1993 (shortly before NAFTA was implemented) and 2014. That's a data point that was cited by Bernie Sanders during his 2016 campaign, when he frequently decried job losses due to NAFTA.

A 2014 study found that while NAFTA has caused about 203,000 jobs to be displaced by NAFTA-related imports annually, imports support 188,000 new jobs, leading to a net loss of only about 15,000 annually.

And the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service wrote in 2017 that "in reality, NAFTA did not cause the huge job losses feared by the critics... because trade with Canada & Mexico accounts for a small percentage of U.S. GDP."

Donald Trump on Drugs : Feb 5, 2019
MS-13 gangs in 20 states smuggle in meth & opioids

The savage gang, MS-13, now operates in 20 different American States, and they almost all come through our southern border. Just yesterday, an MS-13 gang member was taken into custody for a fatal shooting in NYC. We are removing these gang members by the thousands, but until we secure our border they're going to keep streaming back in.

Bernie Sanders on Free Trade : Feb 5, 2019
Real problem with trade is jobs shipped overseas

Donald Trump on Free Trade : Feb 5, 2019
USMCA delivers dreams shattered by catastrophe of NAFTA

Our new US-Mexico-Canada Agreement--or USMCA--will replace NAFTA and deliver for American workers: bringing back our manufacturing jobs, expanding American agriculture, and ensuring that more cars are proudly stamped with four beautiful words: made in the USA.

Donald Trump on Immigration : Feb 5, 2019
ICE guards dangerous southern border against criminal aliens

Donald Trump on Immigration : Feb 5, 2019
Powerful wall in San Diego stopped nearly all crossings

This is a smart, strategic, see-through steel barrier--not just a simple concrete wall. It will be deployed in the areas identified by border agents as having the greatest need, and as these agents will tell you, where walls go up, illegal crossings go way down.

San Diego used to have the most illegal border crossings in the country. In response, and at the request of San Diego residents and political leaders, a strong security wall was put in place. This powerful barrier almost completely ended illegal crossings.

Will Hurd on Immigration : Jan 18, 2019
Border wall is 3rd-century solution to 21st-century problem

Kamala Harris on Immigration : Jan 8, 2019
Border wall sends the message "KEEP OUT"

But there was a bigger reason to oppose the border wall. A useless wall on the southern border would be nothing more than a symbol, a monument standing in opposition to not just everything I value, but to the fundamental values upon which this country was built. The Statue of Liberty is the monument that defines to the world who we are. Emma Lazarus's words--"Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free"--speak true to our true character: a generous country that respects and embraces those who have made the difficult journey to our shores, often fleeing harm. How could I vote to build what would be little more than a monument, designed to send the cold, hard message "KEEP OUT"?

Doug Burgum on Free Trade : Dec 19, 2018
North American trade deal good for farmers, ranchers

Doug Burgum on Free Trade : Oct 2, 2018
Supports USMCA trade agreement to replace NAFTA

Gov. Doug Burgum (R-ND): "We're encouraged to hear that negotiators have reached consensus to update our trilateral trade agreement with Canada and Mexico. . We're grateful to the administration for its continued efforts to expeditiously negotiate free and fair trade agreements that benefit American producers and consumers."

Asa Hutchinson on Free Trade : Oct 2, 2018
Supports USMCA trade agreement to replace NAFTA

Gov. Asa Hutchinson (R-AR): "#USMCA is good news for AR & AR farmers. The agreement will enable our agricultural producers to continue trade w/ our state's export customers in Mexico & Canada. While I am still studying many of the details, this is a victory for American workers & Pres @realDonaldTrump."

Donald Trump on Abortion : Feb 3, 2018
Increased programs and funds covered by Mexico City policy

Donald Trump on Jobs : Jan 30, 2018
Get Motor City revving its engines again

Joe Biden on Foreign Policy : Nov 14, 2017
Repair US relations with Central America's Northern Triangle

At one point soon after, the president asked me to take over the job o repairing our wobbly relations across the entirety of the Americas--the Northern Triangle, Brazil, the Caribbean, everything.

A few weeks after that I was headed to Guatemala for a two-day summit with the leaders of the Northern Triangle countries. My job was to persuade them that they had to make the hard political choices that would convince the United States Congress to fund their Alliance for Prosperity.

Donald Trump on Immigration : Feb 14, 2017
Hire 5,000 more Border Patrol agents on Mexican border

Border Security and Immigration Enforcement Improvements: Signed: Jan. 25, 2017

Other parts of the order call for hiring 5,000 more Border Patrol agents, building facilities to hold undocumented immigrants near the Mexican border and ending "catch-and-release" protocols, in which immigrants in the United States without documentation are not detained while they await court hearings.

Donald Trump on Abortion : Jan 27, 2017
Reinstate Mexico City Policy: end abortion funding abroad

Donald Trump on Immigration : Oct 19, 2016
We have some bad hombres here; I'll get them out

Jill Stein on Free Trade : Oct 9, 2016
NAFTA destroyed jobs in US and Mexico

Jill Stein: The Clintons' support for NAFTA destroyed millions of jobs, including in Mexico where many farmers became economic refugees.

Donald Trump on Free Trade : Sep 27, 2016
FactCheck: No, VATs are not tariffs against US exports

When a company in Germany makes goods to sell at home, it has to pay the VAT. But if it makes them to sell in the US, it doesn't--the tax gets waived at the border. If a US company sells in Germany, it does have to pay the VAT. [The UC Irvine] interpretation is that] border adjustability turns the VAT into an "implicit export subsidy" for foreign companies and an "implicit tariff" on US exporters. This is just dead wrong. Everybody has to pay Germany's VAT when they're selling goods in Germany. Nobody has to pay Germany's VAT when they're selling goods outside of Germany.

You can't really blame Trump for this one: a guy with a PhD in economics fed this stuff to him.

Donald Trump on Budget & Economy : Sep 26, 2016
Our jobs are fleeing to Mexico; China uses us as piggy bank

Donald Trump on Free Trade : Sep 26, 2016
Tax imports when U.S. companies manufacture abroad

Donald Trump on Immigration : Sep 7, 2016
We've been badly hurt by Mexico both at the border & on jobs

Donald Trump on Immigration : Aug 31, 2016
10-point plan: wall; zero tolerance; biometrics; E-Verify

1. We will build a great wall along the southern border. And Mexico will pay for it.
2. We are going to end catch and release.
3. Zero tolerance for criminal aliens. Zero. They don't come in here. We're going to triple the number of ICE deportation officers. We're also going to hire 5,000 more Border Patrol agents.
4. Block funding for sanctuary cities. No more funds.
5. Cancel unconstitutional executive orders and enforce all immigration laws.
6. Suspend issuance of visas to any place where adequate screening cannot occur.
7. Ensure that other countries take their people back when they are deported.
8. We will finally complete the biometric entry-exit visa tracking system which we need desperately. The politicians are all talk, no action, never happens.
9. Turn off the jobs and benefits magnet. We will ensure that E-Verify is used to the fullest extent possible under existing law.
10. Reform legal immigration to serve the best interests of America and its workers.

Donald Trump on Immigration : Aug 23, 2016
Vatican has massive walls; Pope is wrong about open borders

Donald Trump on Free Trade : Mar 3, 2016
I've been moving clothing-making from China to U.S.

Q: Will you promise that you will move your clothing collection to the US, the clothes that are made in China and Mexico?

TRUMP: I will do that. And by the way, I have been doing it more and more. But they devalue their currencies, in particular China. Mexico is doing a big number now, also. Japan is unbelievable what they're doing. They devalue their currencies, and they make it impossible for clothing-makers in this country to do clothing in this country. The Trans-Pacific Partnership--which Marco is in favor of---they don't take into concurrence the devaluation. They're devaluing their currency.

RUBIO: The answer is, he's not going to do it. And you know why? The reason why he makes it in China or Mexico is because he can make more money on it.

Marco Rubio on Free Trade : Feb 25, 2016
Instead of trade war against Mexico, bring jobs home

RUBIO: About the trade war -- I don't understand, because your ties and the clothes are made in Mexico and in China. You're going to start a trade war against your own ties and suits. Why don't you make them in America?

Donald Trump on Free Trade : Feb 25, 2016
With a $58 billion trade deficit, Mexico will pay for wall

TRUMP: We have a trade deficit with Mexico of $58 billion a year. We're going to make them pay for that wall. The wall is $10 billion to $12 billion. I don't mind trade wars when we're losing $58 billion a year. Mexico is taking our businesses. They de-value their currencies to such an extent that our businesses cannot compete with them, our workers lose their jobs. You wouldn't know anything about it because you're a lousy businessman.

Marco Rubio on Immigration : Feb 25, 2016
45% of the problem is visa over-stays

Donald Trump on Government Reform : Feb 13, 2016
I would build consensus, not use Executive Orders

TRUMP: I would build consensus with Congress. I don't like the idea of using executive orders like our president. I would build consensus, but consensus means hard work. You have to get them into the Oval Office and get them all together, and you have to make deals.

Donald Trump on Jobs : Feb 13, 2016
Bring jobs back from China, Mexico, Japan, and Vietnam

Larry Elder on Free Trade : Feb 4, 2016
Trump's tariffs on imports punish the American consumer

Mike Huckabee on Principles & Values : Jan 28, 2016
A President should care about regular folk, not just elites

Mike Huckabee on Corporations : Nov 10, 2015
Stop punishing manufacturing; stop punishing work

Donald Trump on Immigration : Nov 10, 2015
Ship millions back to Mexico, like Eisenhower did

TRUMP: You are going to have to send people out. Look, we either have a country or we don't have a country. We are a country of laws. [Those who entered illegally are] going to have to go out and hopefully they get back. But we have no choice if we're going to run our country properly & if we're going to be a country.

KASICH: If people think that we are going to ship 11 million people who are law-abiding, who are in this country, & somehow pick them up at their house & ship them out to Mexico, think about the families. Think about the children. It's a silly argument. It is not an adult argument. It makes no sense.

TRUMP: Dwight Eisenhower, a great president, moved 1.5 million 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. They moved 1.5 million out. We have no choice.

Donald Trump on Immigration : Nov 8, 2015
Mexico will pay for wall, but not through tariffs

TRUMP: I'll tell you right now. We have a trade imbalance of $40 billion, $45 billion with Mexico a year. We give Mexico billions of dollars a year. The wall is going to cost $6 billion or $7 billion.

Q: So tariffs?

TRUMP: No, I'm not saying that. I'll get Mexico to pay for it one way or the other. I guarantee you that.

Donald Trump on Immigration : Nov 3, 2015
Building 1,000-mile wall is possible, if we make commitment

Donald Trump on Budget & Economy : Oct 28, 2015
Make economy dynamic; bring back jobs from China & Mexico

Donald Trump on Immigration : Oct 28, 2015
I can get Mexico to pay for border wall; politicians can't

TRUMP: Right. We're going to build the wall; we're going to create a border. We're going to let people in, but they're going to come in legally. They are going to come in legally. And it's something that can be done. They built The Great Wall of China. That's 13,000 miles. Here, we actually need 1,000, because we have natural barriers. We can do a wall. We're going to have a big, fat beautiful door right in the middle of the wall. We are going to have people come in, but they are coming in legally. And Mexico is going to pay for the wall, because Mexico--I love the Mexican people, I respect the Mexican leaders, but the leaders are much sharper, smarter and more cunning than our leaders. And people say, "Oh, how are you going to get Mexico to pay?" A politician cannot get them to pay. I can.

Donald Trump on Free Trade : Oct 18, 2015
Restrict free trade to keep jobs in US

TRUMP: I am all for free trade, but it's got to be fair. When Ford moves their massive plants to Mexico, we get nothing. I want them to stay in Michigan.

Q: But the American Enterprise Institute says, your Trump Collection clothing line, some of it is made in Mexico and China.

TRUMP: That's true. I want it to be made here.

Q: The point is you're doing just what Ford is--you're taking advantage of a global trading market.

TRUMP: I never dispute that. I just ordered 4,000 television sets from South Korea. I don't want to order them from South Korea. I don't think anybody makes television sets in the United States anymore. I talk about it all the time. We don't make anything anymore. Now you look at Boeing. Boeing's going over to China. They're going to build a massive plant because China's demanding it in order to order airplanes from Boeing.

Donald Trump on Health Care : Sep 22, 2015
Shifted from favoring universal care to opposing ObamaCare

Donald Trump on Civil Rights : Aug 2, 2015
Obama's presidency has done nothing for African Americans

TRUMP: Well, I think he's been a very poor president. We have $18 trillion right now in debt and going up rapidly. We don't have victories anymore. China is killing us on trade. Mexico's killing us at the border and also killing us on trade.

Q: I understand your critique, but why we won't see another black president for generations?

TRUMP: Because I think that he has set a very poor standard and it's a shame for the African American people. He really has done nothing for African Americans. You look at what's gone on with their income levels, and with their youth. They have problems now in terms of unemployment numbers. We have a black president who's done very poorly for the African Americans of this country.

Chris Christie on Immigration : Aug 2, 2015
E-verify instead of building a physical wall

A: There are not enough law enforcement officers, local, state and federal combined to forcibly deport 11 to 12 million people. This is like building a 2,000-mile wall across the border that Mexico is going to pay for. It sounds really good but the question is how? I think the way to do this is E-Verify. If folks new they weren't going to get jobs, they would not come.

Q: And what would you do with the 11 million who are here?

A: We're going to have to come up with a solution that's going to involve using E-Verify as well.

Donald Trump on Jobs : Aug 2, 2015
Take jobs back from foreign countries to lower unemployment

We have to take back jobs from Japan, and Vietnam, and Mexico, and virtually everybody that's taking our jobs and ruining our manufacturing base. And we have to put people to work. Because the real unemployment number is probably 21%. People give up looking for jobs. And they no longer become a statistic. And it's very unfair. So we have to put our country back to work. We have to get great jobs for people and good paying jobs for people. And we're going to be just fine.

Jill Stein on Free Trade : Jul 6, 2015
TPP attacks our basic national sovereignty

Stein: The dispute resolution method allows corporations to not go to parent country--corporations can sue for lost future profits--it's a crazy concept.

OnTheIssues: To what court would corporations sue?

Stein: "Investor state dispute resolution courts." Three judges appointed by the World Bank, and heard in secret, who can overrule democratically established laws of the US or Mexico or any member of the treaty. A country can have its laws overturned by a corporation saying you are restricting my future profits by requiring that I pay workers the prevailing wage or clean up my toxic waste. It represents an attack on our basic national sovereignty. It means for example you can no longer pass a "local-preferred" policy because some agribusiness says it discriminates against their product .It would not stand the test of public scrutiny, which is why it is secret. What is not treasonous about this?

Chris Christie on Immigration : Jul 5, 2015
Increase electronic border surveillance and create E-Verify

Christie: To build a wall across our entire southern border, that's a simple politician's answer. My plan for the border would be multi-fold. First, it would be to use the [right] type of walling or fencing in certain areas. Second would be to use the type of electronic surveillance that we have available to us both through drones and through other electronic surveillance on the border. Third, of course, is to use Border Patrol officers to be able to do it. And fourth, and most important, is that require every employer in America to use E-Verify. Because these folks are coming to work. And if they're not able to be employed if they come here illegally, if every employer uses E-Verify and if they violate the law, there are fines that are so significant that the profit they make off hiring lower-wage workers and discriminating against American workers won't be worth their while. You'll see a real diminishment of anybody trying to come over the southern border

Donald Trump on Free Trade : Jun 16, 2015
35% import tax on Mexican border

And you say to yourself, "How does that help us? Where is that good"? It's not. So I would say, "Let me give you the bad news. Every car and every part manufactured in this plant that comes across the border, we're going to charge you a 35% tax, and that tax is going to be paid simultaneously with the transaction.

Now, if it's not me in the position, here's what's going to happen: They're going to get a call from the donors or from the lobbyist for Ford and say, "I take care of you, and you can't do that to Ford."

I'm using my own money. I'm not using the lobbyists. I'm not using donors. I don't care.

Donald Trump on Immigration : Jun 16, 2015
Build great wall on southern border; have Mexico pay for it

Donald Trump on Immigration : Jun 16, 2015
Half of the undocumented residents in America are criminals

In his January speech to the Iowa Freedom Summit, Trump called for securing the southern border and indicated that he believes half of the undocumented residents in America are criminals. In 2013 at CPAC, the businessman said Republicans should block any path to citizenship or voting status for undocumented immigrants but should expand legal immigration from Europe. In addition, Trump would give a legal status to foreign students who complete a degree at an American university.

Donald Trump on Immigration : Jun 16, 2015
Mexico & Latin America send us drugs, crime, and rapists

When Mexico sends its people, they're not sending their best. They're sending people that have lots of problems, and they're bringing those problems. They're bringing drugs. They're bringing crime. They're rapists.

And some, I assume, are good people. But I speak to border guards and they tell us what we're getting. And it only makes common sense. They're sending us not the right people.

It's coming from more than Mexico. It's coming from all over South and Latin America, and it's coming probably--probably--from the Middle East. But we don't know. Because we have no protection and we have no competence, we don't know what's happening. And it's got to stop and it's got to stop fast.

Donald Trump on Immigration : Feb 27, 2015
We need strong borders; we need a wall

"We need strong borders. We need a wall," Trump said, addressing his solutions to the immigration issue. "The king of building buildings, the king of building walls--none of them can build them like Donald Trump."

Chris Christie on Free Trade : Sep 2, 2014
Trade mission to Mexico doubles as foreign policy tour

The pillars of the Christie worldview, as gleaned from about a dozen speeches and public appearances, tend to rise from a simple observation: A high-functioning America at home, liberated from partisan dysfunction, exerts greater influence abroad. "What we say and what we do here at home affects how others see us and in turn affects what it is they say and do," Christie said in 2011.

Marco Rubio on Foreign Policy : Nov 30, 2012
Build relations with Mexico for trade & oil, not just border

A strong, prosperous Mexico is good for the US. It represents a large, growing market for a wide variety of US exports. It offers a convenient, economically competitive alternative to China and other Asian countries. And a strong Mexico that produces good, legitimate jobs for its growing population will undermine the appeal of criminal organizations and the enticement of undocumented employment in the US.

[We should also] implement the trans-boundary hydrocarbons agreement signed by the US and Mexico in February, which allows international oil companies to join Mexico in joint exploration and development in the Gulf of Mexico.

Bernie Sanders on Immigration : Oct 9, 2012
Immigrant labor should be treated as valuable, but are not

Nikki Haley on Government Reform : Nov 23, 2010
Endorsed as commonsense conservative "Mama Grizzly"

Nikki Haley has captured the nation's attention as an Indian American woman who's also a pro-family commonsense constitutional conservative eager to take back her country. She's a sister.

Mike Huckabee on Abortion : Sep 17, 2007
No tax funding for organizations that promote abortion

HUCKABEE: Are we being asked to apply a Mexican law to the US?

Q: It's the principle of not giving our tax dollars to organizations within our country that actively promote or provide abortions. It's an American law.

BROWNBACK: This is Ronald Reagan' policy that we wouldn't use federal funds to support organizations that promote abortions overseas.

HUNTER: It's actually a UN policy.

KEYES: Actually, it was a policy of the Mexico City Population Conference. I was the deputy chairman. I actually negotiated the language into the final resolution at that conference.

Q: I want to know, will you defund Planned Parenthood?

• HUCKABEE: Yes.
• TANCREDO: Yes.
• COX: Yes.
• BROWNBACK: Yes.
• PAUL: Yes.
• HUNTER: Yes.
• KEYES: Yes.

Mike Huckabee on Free Trade : Sep 17, 2007
No NAFTA Superhighway from Canada to Mexico

• HUCKABEE: No.
• TANCREDO: No.
• COX: No.
• BROWNBACK: No.
• PAUL: No.
• HUNTER: No.
• KEYES: No.

Joe Biden on Drugs : Sep 6, 2007
National ban on smoking would reduce chronic illnesses

BIDEN: Yes. I would ban--in all public [places], nationally.

DODD: 3,000 kids start smoking every day in this country.

RICHARDSON: I did it in New Mexico as a national law.

KUCINICH: You bet I'll go for a national law.

Q: So Biden, Dodd, Richardson, Gravel and Kucinich in favor of a national law.

EDWARDS: Wait, wait, wait, and Edwards.

BIDEN: Let me also add here as well--with 3,000 young people starting to smoke every single day, one of the major causes of the health care issue and Medicare--is because of chronic illnesses associated with things like smoking. So the idea that we wouldn't draft a national law to stop this in public places is one of the things you're going to have to do if you're going to deal with rising health care costs and the same is true with alcohol.

Joe Biden on Free Trade : Aug 7, 2007
President's job is to create jobs, not to export jobs

A: A president's job is to create jobs, not to export jobs, and the idea that we are not willing to take the prime minister of Canada and the president of Mexico to the mat to make this agreement work is just a lack of presidential leadership. I would lead, I would do that, I would change it.

Bernie Sanders on Government Reform : Jun 17, 1997
Low-income workers don't vote because it's irrelevant

Why bother to vote? And millions don't.