The Hill
By Jonathan Easley
July 5, 2015
Former
Texas Gov. Rick Perry on Sunday ripped fellow GOP 2016 hopeful Donald
Trump over controversial remarks the businessman made about illegal
immigrants, saying Trump’s
views are not representative of the party as a whole.
“Donald
Trump does not represent the Republican party,” Perry said on ABC’s
"This Week." “I was offended by his remarks. Listen, Hispanics in
America, and Hispanics in
Texas, from the Alamo to Afghanistan, have been extraordinary people,
citizens of our country and our state, and they have served nobly. To
paint with that broad a brush that Donald Trump did — he’s going to have
to defend those remarks. I never will.”
Last
month, in a speech announcing that he would seek the Republican
presidential nomination, Trump described immigrants crossing the border
as dangerous criminals.
“They’re
sending people who have a lot of problems,” Trump said. “They’re
bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists. And some, I
assume, are good people.”
There
has been considerable backlash against the remarks, with Macy’s, NBC,
and Univision all cutting their business ties with Trump.
Some
Republicans are worried that the reality TV star will damage the GOP as
the party seeks inroads with Hispanic voters. However, Trump’s
straight-talking style and
hawkish immigration stance has vaulted him into second place nationally
in some polls.
Perry
argued on Sunday that Trump doesn’t have any direct experience dealing
with illegal immigration and so he doesn’t understand the issue.
“I
don’t think he understands the challenge,” Perry said. “Obviously we’ve
been there, 14 years as the governor of that state with a 1,200-mile
border. When it became
abundantly clear that the president wasn’t going to deal with this
issue, we acted last summer. We surged our law enforcement and our
national guard, we had a 74 percent decrease of apprehensions in that
region of the border…my bet is that Mr. Trump doesn’t
know that.”
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