Is Donald Trump reading Steve Sailer?
From Breitbart: Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump is calling out Hillary Clinton for supporting a protective border wall around Israel while also opposing a protective wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.
“It is clear that the former Senator from New York and former Secretary of State has had a change of heart when it comes to walls and securing borders,” Trump tells Breitbart News.
“She supported a wall for Israel when it was politically expedient,” he said. “Now, she is for open-borders and flooding the country with unvetted refugees from countries that are exporting terrorism.”
“It’s bad enough that she lied to the American people about Benghazi, but now she wants to pander to those who might jeopardize our very homeland security,” he said. “This is hypocrisy at the highest level.”
In 2004, then-Senator Clinton made some of the same arguments that advocates for border-walls use today. She just didn’t happen to be talking about the United States. She was talking about Israel.
Clinton co-sponsored a July 2004 resolution that “urges the United States to vote against any further United Nations action that could delay or prevent the construction of the security fence and to engage in a diplomatic campaign to persuade other countries to do the same.”
But now she’s pandering to the progressive, open-borders wing of her party as she tries to lock up the party’s 2016 nomination.
In September, Clinton mocked Trump’s proposed border wall in a sketch appearance on Jimmy Fallon’s TV show.
In a fake conservation with a Trump mimic, she scolded him, saying “Come on Donald, America was built by people who came here, they worked their hearts out for a better life, and that’s what many immigrants are doing today. Their dream is to become American citizens. You’re trying to stop them?”
Though Clinton voted for the Secure Fence Act of 2006, and recently touted her vote to “build a barrier” along the Mexico border, she has also criticized the idea of a U.S.-Mexico border wall. She also criticized George W. Bush administration’s failed border security push, making it unclear where she actually stands on the issue, though her continued pandering to Spanish-speaking audiences and immigration reform activists provide a solid hint.
