Thread: Immigrants are being hurriedly legalized to vote this election

October 7, 2016
By DAN MCCUE

(CN) - Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump claimed on Friday that border patrol agents have been told to allow immigrants to enter the United States illegally so that they can vote in the November election.

Trump made his claim as he received the endorsement of the 16,500-person National Border Patrol Council at Trump Tower.

Neither he nor Art Del Cueto, the union official who conferred the endorsement during an immigration, offered evidence to back up the claim.

Newly admitted immigrants are not eligible to vote, a right reserved to citizens.

But Del Cueto said agents have told him they had directives to ignore immigrants' criminal records, so they can quickly become citizens and gain the right to vote.

"That's a massive story," Trump responded, saying it would be ignored by the media. "They are letting people pour into the country so they can go ahead and vote."

However, union spokesman Shawn Moran, who was in New York with Del Cueto, said later in a telephone interview with the Associated Press that several issues were conflated during the round table discussion.

http://www.courthousenews.com/2016/1...o-beat-him.htm

By REBECCA SHABAD CBS NEWS October 7, 2016, 10:57 AM

Last Updated Oct 7, 2016 2:16 PM EDT

During a conversation with members of the National Border Patrol Council, Donald Trump seemed to accept the idea that the U.S. government speeds up the processing of immigrants who are on a waiting list to become citizens so that they can vote.

Trump participated in a roundtable with the council at Trump Tower in New York, and the group’s national vice president and chapter president of Tucson, Arizona talked about criminal undocumented immigrants who are apprehended at the border.

“I’ve spoken to several agents in my sector that are in charge of processing a lot of these individuals that we’ve apprehended [and] a lot of them do have criminal records,” Art Del Cueto told Trump.

Del Cueto then said that border patrol agents are “checking records” and “noticing that they have criminal records,” but he said those criminal undocumented immigrants are being “set aside.”

“They’re setting them aside because at this point they’re saying immigration is so tied up with trying to get the people that are on the waiting list, hurry up and get their immigration status corrected, make them citizens,” he said.

Trump asked why, and Del Cueto repeated, “So they can go ahead and vote before the election.”

But it was unclear who Del Cueto was referring to when he mentioned the “people that are on the waiting list.”

“To me, that’s huge,” Trump said. “They’re letting people pour into the country so they can go and vote.”

“They want to hurry up and fast-track them so they can go ahead and be able to vote in these elections,” Del Cueto said.

“You hear a thing like that, it’s a disgrace,” said Trump, who promised that the U.S. would have “real borders” if he’s elected president.

People are detained at the border when they don’t have proper documents, or if they make material misrepresentations, and they are then usually placed in expedited removal proceedings.

As far as the “waiting list” Del Cueto refers to, it’s unclear which waiting list he was talking about. Processing an application for naturalization, to become a U.S. citizen, takes about five months, according to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. In order to apply for citizenship, however, a person must first be a permanent legal resident of the U.S. for at least three years. In order to become a permanent resident, you have to apply for that status as well.

CBS News’ Sopan Deb sought to clarify Del Cueto’s remarks in a follow-up phone interview with another roundtable participant: Shawn Moran, another vice president for the National Border Patrol Council and its media coordinator.

Deb asked if Del Cueto was suggesting that the government was fast-tracking citizenship so that people can vote.

“The one thing that we’re seeing from the people we’re catching – the illegal aliens we’re catching – they’re saying they’re coming here for two reasons: One, they want to be present for any type of amnesty or immigration reform. And then two, they’re concerned about any type of increase [in] immigration or border enforcement if Mr. Trump gets in,” Moran claimed.

But asked if there’s evidence that people are being fast-tracked to citizenship in order to vote, Moran said, “We don’t have any evidence of it. But based on past history in 1986 and in 1996, we’ve seen the same thing with behavior before.”

“So there’s no documentation of this,” Deb said. “This is just kind of hearsay at this point. Is that correct?”

“That’s correct as well,” Moran said.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/donald-t...they-can-vote/

Thank you Jean for the video and additional stories. It was confusing when this was first being reported. Heard ICE and illegal immigrants, then Border Patrol and legal immigrants, then read both.

We do know that whatever the administration and others can do, using whoever they can, no matter their legality, they will try it to have new voters.

We do know that whatever the administration and others can do, using whoever they can, no matter their legality, they will try it to have new voters.

That's their aim and everyone knows it.

I found it. When first posting this thread I thought this is what I heard, that ICE representatives were telling Donald Trump that illegal immigrants were being allowed to vote. Then FOX seemed to be changing it around. The video from this morning on FOX Business is at the link.



ICE Officials Tell TRUMP Illegals Are Being Allowed to Vote – That’s Why They They Won’t Deport Them

Jim Hoft Oct 7th, 2016 9:47 am


ICE officials reportedly told Donald Trump illegal aliens are being allowed to vote this year.

Cameras picked this up during a meeting Donald Trump held with ICE officials in August.

What you pick up in the conversation is agent from Tucson telling Donald Trump basically why are these undocumented illegals with criminal records, why aren’t they being kicked out. And why is there such a rush to give these illegals citizenship. And he says the ICE official says simply so they can vote.






ICE officials reportedly told Donald Trump illegal aliens are being allowed to vote this year.
Cameras picked this up during a meeting Donald Trump held with ICE officials in August.

Via FOX Business Network:

What you pick up in the conversation is agent from Tucson telling Donald Trump basically why are these undocumented illegals with criminal records, why aren’t they being kicked out. And why is there such a rush to give these illegals citizenship. And he says the ICE official says simply so they can vote.

The US Border Patrol workers endorsed Donald Trump for president in September.Obama released 19,000 criminal illegals to the streets of America.


http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2016...ort-criminals/

Related:

http://www.alipac.us/f12/dead-people...merica-338214/

http://www.alipac.us/f8/boom-trump-c...3/#post1519529

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCabT_O0YSM