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Trump holds commanding lead among Republican voters

Donald Trump is not only expanding his lead in the Republican presidential race.

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Some of the loudest, and most controversial, voices in the Republican Party were quick to heap praise on Trump’s plan. Sen. “And then all of a sudden, nobody knows… the baby’s here”. “And Rick Santorum, I don’t see any opportunity for him to get the nomination”.

Ending birthright citizenship would require the repeal or drastic revision of the fourteenth amendment to the Constitution, enacted following the US Civil War. Republicans in Congress have pushed without success to repeal that provision since 2011.

If the Republican party were to adopt it, he said, “we might as well just go ahead and hand (Democratic candidate) Hillary Clinton the keys to the White House“. And as Mitt Romney can tell you, that choice can have serious consequences.

The aspiring Republican candidate, whose aggressive attitude to immigration reform has been a cornerstone of his candidacy, outlined his policies in a campaign document released on his website last weekend. The poll specifically surveyed 466 registered voters who identified as Republican or Republican-leaning, with a margin of error of plus or minus 4.5 percentage points. “So honestly, I think we should put all of our energies, all of our political will into finally getting the border secured and fixing the legal immigration“, she told Kelly O’Donnell on Monday. The 69-year-old is also adamant that Mexico pay for the wall because the US “will not be taken advantage of anymore”. Mandatory deportation of all “criminal aliens”.

He also said “They’re illegal” in reference to the children of illegal U.S. residents. We will work with them. “The good people can come back”.

Trump had asserted, “When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending their best”.

There are probably other concerns about current immigration policy. The cases could head to the U.S. Supreme Court.

However, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie said walling off the border “doesn’t make any sense”. There are still gaps in the barriers, which have been under construction since 2005. “Donald’s kind of made up”, Kelly said.

Pauken says besides his own former governor, Rick Perry, he contends several other candidates will be part of what he calls the “winnowing-out” process.

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Both Ohio Gov. John Kasich and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush have previously suggested they could support some type of legalization for immigrants who entered the country illegally but are now working as law-abiding members of society.

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