“[Gun-free zones] are target practice for the sickos and for the mentally ill”. “I respect the Mexican leaders, but their leaders are much sharper, much smarter and more cunning than our leader”. Nor does Trump’s more recent idea of readmitting many illegals legally once they’ve been deported, provided that they’re “good” (i.e. without a criminal record), turn up. “They’re a feeding frenzy for sick people”, Trump stressed. “They come from another country and they’re immediately sent out”, he argued. “And that’s the way my parents came legally in 1956”, he said.
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“In 2015, we have a very different economy”, Rubio said in the debate. He’s advocating restrictions in the program as part of an overhaul on immigration that includes deporting immigrants who lack legal status in the US and walling off the border with Mexico. Nor does it add any new protections for them from the existing H-1B programme.
This was for the first time when Trump was participating in a Republican presidential debate wherein he was not on the top of the latest opinion polls.
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Almost 86 percent of the 76,000 H-1B visas issued for workers in computer occupations in 2014 were for people from India, according to a Computerworld analysis of government data obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request. Okay, but do note that this same poll showed Carly Fiorina winning the second debate back in September, 12 points ahead of Trump. Former Florida Governor Jeb Bush, brother and son of Republican presidents, is trailing far behind the front-runners with only 16 per cent of the party voters showing any inclination towards him.
