GOP strategist: Trump's immigration stance is "biggest risk" to Republicans in midterms

[groundloop]

Source: CBS News

GOP strategist Dan Senor says the "biggest risk" to Republicans heading into the midterm elections is President Trump's handling of immigration issues, which he says convey "chaos." Senor served as a senior adviser to Paul Ryan and Mitt Romney during the 2012 presidential campaign.

"Where I think the president went too far is on this birthright citizenship issue – for several reasons. One, what he's proposing is unconstitutional. Two, he said sort of in a flip way, not coordinated with anyone in the congressional leadership,'I'll just do this by executive order'... and it just conveyed chaos," Senor told "CBS This Morning" on Friday, less than a week before election day.

President Trump continued making immigration his top issue at a rally Thursday where he discussed the migrant caravan. The president claimed the military will not tolerate violence at the border and any rocks thrown at the military will be treated like "a firearm."

Senor said that although Mr. Trump might have gone too far with his plan to sign an executive order removing the right to citizenship for babies of non-citizens born on U.S. soil, the caravan of migrants headed to the U.S border does raise a legitimate policy issue.

Read more: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/republican-strategist-dan-senor-says-trump-conveys-chaos-on-immigration-issues/

[lagomorph777]

1. Trump's threat to repeal the 14th Amendment by fiat is legitimately terrifying.

He's basically saying he claims the power to revoke anybody's citizenship on a whim, for any reason. With a rubber-stamp Russiapublican Congress backing him up on every new outrage, that is a very serious threat to EVERY American.

[mr_lebowski]

2. Is there some reason I'm unaware of that we're even TALKING ABOUT throwing rocks?

Where the hell did this whole idea even start?

What evidence is there that this tired, poor group of unarmed refugees seeking political asylum ... are planning to show up at our border ... and then start up hostilities with the country that they're begging to get into ... by throwing rocks at US Soldiers/Agents?

I mean, seriously.

Where the f*** did this whole BS storyline even come from?

[The Liberal Lion]

4. Netanyahu coached him on that.

I'm not even kidding

[mr_lebowski]

5. Yeah, the obvious link to the border issues in Israel didn't go unnoticed with me ...

I was just wondering if there's any ACTUAL reason to believe these migrants are big into rock-throwing ... that I was unaware of.

[groundloop]

6. He had to come up with SOMETHING after military assessment that caravan posed no threat

And what scares the shit out of me is that I wouldn't put it past Tiny or some of his wacko followers to see to it that a couple of soldiers get hit with rocks to justify a massacre.

[The Liberal Lion]

3. It's sad that that is their biggest risk

Not the concentration camps that are terrorizing children, not the racism, not the sexism, not their ongoing assault on the working and middle class, not their tolerance for the level of crime being produced by the White house, not the equally appalling level of incompetence being displayed by the same, but rather immigration.
Sad!