Thread: Trump correct on immigration proposals, enforcement huge issue for independents

Kobach: Trump correct on immigration proposals, enforcement huge issue for independent voters


By ROXANA HEGEMAN
Published: 8/27/15 5:22 pm EDT - Updated: 8/27/15 5:26 pm EDT


WICHITA, Kansas — Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach said he agrees with Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump's proposals to build a wall along the southern border and end "birthright citizenship" for children born to parents who are in the U.S. illegally.

Kobach advised Mitt Romney on immigration policy during his 2012 presidential campaign, and he said it was he who urged Romney to espouse making it impossible to find work for those in the U.S. illegally, thus making them more likely to leave.

Romney won just 27 percent of the Latino vote in 2012, the worst performance for a GOP nominee in 16 years.

Kobach rejected GOP fears that taking a hardline stance on immigration will hurt the party's chances in the 2016 general election. And he dismissed a Republican Party "autopsy" of the 2012 election that recommended the GOP should embrace "comprehensive immigration reform," saying its conclusions are based on the opinions of only a few people. Immigration enforcement is "a huge issue" for independents, he said.

Romney got an exceptionally high portion of the independent vote, Kobach said.

"There were groups on the left that wanted to scare Republicans into thinking that being for enforcing the law is politically bad for you and bad for a president, but that was a politically driven agenda that they had, and not true."

President Ronald Reagan signed the biggest amnesty in American history in 1986, and that according to that theory the Republicans should have "reaped huge rewards" with Hispanic voters, he said. Instead, the opposite happened when George W. Bush was on the ballot to carry on the Reagan policy.

"We know for certain that a Republican president being for amnesty doesn't yield any benefit at the ballot box," Kobach said. "Just ask George W. Bush who saw a dramatic drop off after Reagan signed the amnesty, not an increase in Hispanic support."

Kobach said he is not working now advising any of the presidential campaigns, but says he may do so in the future. He declined to specify which one.

http://www.therepublic.com/view/stor...ch-Immigration

I am still very wary of voting for anyone on a democrat or republican ballot. Who would trust political parties who encourage raping and murdering American children by not enforcing existing law? Who would vote for political party who in '14 to "get'em in 15." Then not even apologize or explain for lying because they never intended to do as promised? Who would that thinks with clarity support political parties who commit treason and purgery openly? If that is not insulting enojugh to stop one form voting for them, they brag about what they accomplish. I cannot support that, but if Trump goes independent, I will support him.

Originally Posted by kevinssdad

I am still very wary of voting for anyone on a democrat or republican ballot. Who would trust political parties who encourage raping and murdering American children by not enforcing existing law? Who would vote for political party who in '14 to "get'em in 15." Then not even apologize or explain for lying because they never intended to do as promised? Who would that thinks with clarity support political parties who commit treason and purgery openly? If that is not insulting enojugh to stop one form voting for them, they brag about what they accomplish. I cannot support that, but if Trump goes independent, I will support him.

I completely understand, but keep a crack in the door and see what happens. It's a long time until the election and Trump is kicking butt, including the butt of much of what's wrong with our GOP. I had to laugh when a friend sent me an article about Trump stealing Koch Brothers "operatives", he's hired several away from the Koch Brothers operations and is paying them more money than the Koch Brothers paid them. Today he focused attention on Huma Abedin, one of Hillary's top staffers calling her husband that Anthony Weiner who took sex selfies and floated them on the internet, a "perv". I had to laugh. Trump is merciless on these people who so far all seem to deserve it.

Then I random google his wife Huma and find out there's some problem with her and "theft of public property" because she took vacations while at the State Department, but apparently didn't report her time off as vacation.

Huma Abedin never got sick or took vacation in four years at State?
posted at 10:01 am on August 1, 2015 by Jazz Shaw

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The one thing Hillary Clinton was no doubt looking forward to was some sort of scandal which might affect her presidential candidacy, particularly given how smooth and drama free it’s been thus far. (/snark) The State Department’s Inspector General has raised questions about Huma Abedin’s pay records while serving under Hillary Clinton during her tenure as Secretary of State. Oddly, the records appear to indicate that over a span of four years she never once took a sick day or even went on vacation. My, my… that’s some serious dedication. (Fox News)

One of Hillary Clinton’s top aides was reportedly overpaid by nearly $10,000 because of violations of rules that govern vacation and sick time during her time as an official in the State Department, according to investigators.

The Washington Post reports the finding emerged on Friday after Iowa Sen. Charles Grassley sent letters to Secretary of State John Kerry, among others, about an investigation into possible “criminal” conduct by Huma Abedin over her pay.

The letters also sought the status of an investigation into whether Abedin violated conflict-of-interest laws related to her work for the State Department, the Clinton Foundation and another private firm founded by a Clinton ally, according to The Post.

Abedin left State at the same time as Hillary and is now a top member of her campaign staff, but during the period in question she was an employee of the federal government drawing a very nice salary, the tab for which was picked up by the taxpayers. Chuck Grassley has already raised some interesting questions, particularly the fact that Huma was allegedly in Italy on vacation for at least ten days at one point. What’s not revealed is if she was paid back for unused vacation, either at the end of each year or when she left the State Department. If she was, then clearly she was committing theft of public money through time and attendance fraud, as noted in Grassley’s response.

Perhaps even more curious is the arrangement where Abedin was defined has having a “special government employee status” which allowed her to concurrently hold down one job at the Clinton Foundation and a second one at Teneo, a firm run by a former aide to Bill Clinton. This gives a whole new meaning to the concept of triple dipping. Wasn’t her work at the State Department a full time job? She was certainly collecting a full time salary. Where was she finding time to work on these other projects while still collecting a government paycheck?

As Grassley notes, we may never know. Some of the correspondence which may have shed light on it probably disappeared down the memory hole of Hillary’s private server.

In the letters, Grassley also contends Clinton’s private email server interfered with the investigation.

“The OIG had reason to believe that email evidence relevant to that inquiry was contained in emails Ms. Abedin sent and received from her account on Secretary Clinton’s non-government server, making them unavailable to the OIG through its normal statutory right of access records,” he wrote.

It’s not the Secretary of State’s personal responsibility to check the time sheets of every employee in the department, so I’m not sure if you can pin this directly on Clinton beyond the fact that the captain is always the one responsible if the ship hits an iceberg. But it beggars belief that Hillary Clinton didn’t know that her closest confidant was working at her own charitable foundation. It’s also a rather dubious proposal to assume she didn’t know Huma was also collecting a paycheck from one of Bill’s cronies.

Assuming the allegations prove out, what does Hillary do next? This is one of her closest held and most loyal soldiers dating back for decades. But can a presidential candidate keep someone on the payroll after they are found to have committed theft of taxpayer money by fraud? Given their history, however, I suppose it wouldn’t be too shocking for Clinton to just thumb her nose at everyone and say that she’s keeping Huma on, that it’s all just a plot by Republicans and that Abedin will be a top staffer in the White House after she’s elected president.

http://hotair.com/archives/2015/08/0...ears-at-state/