Immigrants are being hurriedly legalized to vote this election
Trump Says Illegal Immigrants Pouring Across The Border To Vote
Nolan McCaskill October 7, 2016
The federal government is allowing illegal immigrants to flow into the U.S. so they can vote, Donald Trump alleged Friday, fueling his own argument that November’s presidential election will be rigged against him.
At a roundtable with National Border Patrol Council members Friday morning inside Trump Tower, Art Del Cueto, national vice president of the union that represents Border Patrol agents, told the Republican presidential nominee that agents have been advised not to deport illegal immigrants with criminal records, according to a pool report.
Trump conveyed his appreciation for Border Patrol agents, telling them their jobs would be so much easier if they just allowed people to come across the border.
“But you love our country,” Trump said, adding, “You know many people are coming in with criminal records.”
Del Cueto told Trump that he has spoken to a number of agents who are in charge of processing. “And the problem that we’re seeing reflected through us as a voice is that some of these individuals that were apprehended with criminal records, they’re not, they’re checking their records, they see that they have criminal records, but they’re setting them aside because at this point they are saying immigration is 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,” he said.
“Why? Trump asked. “So they can go ahead and vote before the election,” Del Cueto responded.
“Big statement, fellas,” Trump said, motioning to reporters, whom he accused of concealing from the public what they just heard. “You’re not going to write it. That’s huge. But they’re letting people pour into the country so they can go and vote.”
Del Cueto said the government wants “to hurry up and fast track them so they can go ahead and vote in the election,” prompting Trump to promote himself as a change agent.
“You hear a thing like that, and it’s a disgrace,” he said. “Well, it will be a lot different if I get elected.”
The real estate mogul suggested at last week's presidential debate that he would accept the outcome of the election — but his rhetoric before and after his first faceoff with Hillary Clinton has contradicted that claim.
“The answer is, if she wins, I will absolutely support her,” Trump told debate moderator Lester Holt, indicating that he would concede the election if he lost to Clinton without floating conspiracies of a rigged election.
At a rally in Henderson, Nevada, on Wednesday, Trump again hinted of a rigged election, urging his supporters to turn out even on their death beds so “the other side” doesn’t steal the election.
“I say kiddingly, but I mean it: I don’t care how sick you are. I don’t care if you just came back from the doctor and he gave you the worst possible prognosis, meaning it’s over, you won’t be around in two weeks,” Trump said. “Doesn’t matter. Hang out ‘til Nov. 8. Get out and vote. And then all we’re gonna say is we love you and we will remember you always. Get out and vote. And don’t let the other side take this election away from us because this is the last chance we get.”
South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham on Thursday condemned Trump for sowing doubt in voters’ minds by questioning the integrity of the presidential election.
“I don't think it’s good for democracy to have a major candidate for president doubt the outcome. Now, could the election be compromised from hacking and all kind of nefarious activities?” he told CNN. “Yeah, that’s possible, but being rigged means it’s rigged against you. And I think Mr. Trump’s fate is in his own hands. The system's not rigged against him, as far as I can tell, and when you suggest it might be, then that's a message to your supporters and to the country as a whole that you can't trust the outcome of an American election.”
He added, “We got enough problems here at home without making people believe that we’re not gonna honestly elect the next president.”
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Trump 'Letting people pour into country to vote
Trump Claims Illegals Given Pass to Beat Him
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.
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Donald Trump: Immigrants are pouring into U.S. so they can vote
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.
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