{"id":74700,"date":"2015-09-17T07:51:51","date_gmt":"2015-09-17T15:51:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=74700"},"modified":"2015-09-17T07:51:51","modified_gmt":"2015-09-17T15:51:51","slug":"immigration-is-the-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=74700","title":{"rendered":"Immigration Is The Issue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.anncoulter.com\/columns\/2015-09-16.html\">Ann Coulter writes<\/a>: Today, the fight in the Republican Party isn&#8217;t over abortion, guns or the Sandinistas; the dividing line is immigration. Will we continue to be the United States, or will we become another failed Latin American state? <\/p>\n<p>On this, it&#8217;s Donald Trump (and the people) vs. everyone else. <\/p>\n<p>Trump announced his presidential campaign by talking about Mexican rapists. Immigration is the only policy paper he&#8217;s put out so far &#8212; and he&#8217;s been crushing the polls. He got his one sustained standing ovation from 20,000 cheering fans in Dallas Monday night when he talked about stopping illegal immigration. <\/p>\n<p>But James B. Stewart gasses on in The New York Times about Trump&#8217;s &#8220;name\u00adcalling, personal attacks and one-liners that have vaulted him to the top of the polls.&#8221; In the entire article, Stewart never mentions immigration. <\/p>\n<p>Perhaps some minority of people will vote for Trump because of his personality. But I notice that it&#8217;s his position on immigration that gets thousands of people leaping to their feet. <\/p>\n<p>The media will talk about anything but Trump&#8217;s specific, detailed policies on immigration &#8212; all while claiming he doesn&#8217;t have any &#8220;policy details.&#8221; The very fact that the entire media &#8212; including most of the conservative commentariat &#8212; obdurately refuse to acknowledge the popularity of Trump&#8217;s immigration plans is exactly why Trump is exploding in the polls. <\/p>\n<p>Trump isn&#8217;t trying to imitate anyone. He&#8217;s leading on the seminal issue of our time while the rest of the field practices looking optimistic in front of the mirror. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ann Coulter writes: Today, the fight in the Republican Party isn&#8217;t over abortion, guns or the Sandinistas; the dividing line is immigration. Will we continue to be the United States, or will we become another failed Latin American state? On &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=74700\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[241,161],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ann-coulter","category-immigration"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74700"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74701,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74700\/revisions\/74701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}