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Donald Trump took pains to spotlight the parents of children killed by immigrants in the country illegally, who were given coveted speaking time before a national audience. The candidate's signature border wall permeated the GOP platform. And in his formal convention address, Trump's tough, security-focused approach was punctuated by rowdy crowd chants of "Build the wall!"
"My plan is the exact opposite of the radical and dangerous immigration policy of Hillary Clinton. Americans want relief from uncontrolled immigration, which is what we have now. Communities want relief," Trump bellowed. "Yet Hillary Clinton is proposing mass amnesty, mass immigration, and mass lawlessness."
A few hours before Trump took the stage, the GOP convention gave a megaphone to Joe Arpaio, the controversial sheriff of Maricopa County, Ariz., who has been accused of racially profiling Latinos and is known for harsh immigration enforcement policies. Democrats are more concerned with “the rights of illegal aliens and criminals than we are with protecting our own country,” Arpaio charged.
The Republican platform endorses an impenetrable wall along the Mexico border, calls for curbing green cards for future immigrants and opposes “any form of amnesty” for those who crossed into the United States illegally.
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“The way Latino voters see it is, one party insults us and the other party is playing politics with us,” Aguilar said in an interview here. “This is very important because Democrats are banking on the insults, but they don’t see that it doesn’t solve it when you use the issue for political gain.”
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Besides the border wall, the GOP platform calls for immediate revocation of Obama’s executive actions that affect young immigrants brought here illegally and undocumented parents of U.S. citizens and green card holders. The latter has been blocked by the courts.
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“Those immigrants already living in the United States, who are assets to their communities and contribute so much to our country, should be incorporated completely into our society through legal processes that give meaning to our national motto: E Pluribus Unum,” the draft Democratic platform reads.
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A Gallup Poll released Thursday underscores the divide. It showed 84 percent of U.S. adults favor a pathway to citizenship for immigrants here illegally as long as they met a series of requirements. Just a third support building a wall along the southern U.S. border.
Even among Republicans, the pathway to citizenship is more popular than a border wall.
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