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Eugene

(61,859 posts)
Sun Oct 18, 2015, 03:19 PM Oct 2015

Trump: My immigration plans would have prevented 9/11

Source: CBS News

By REENA FLORES CBS NEWS October 18, 2015, 2:50 PM

Trump: My immigration plans would have prevented 9/11

Donald Trump says that if he had been president in 2001, his immigration policies would have kept terrorists from attacking the World Trade Center on September 11.

"I am extremely, extremely tough on illegal immigration. I'm extremely tough on people coming into this country," Trump said on Fox News Sunday. "I believe that if I were running things, I doubt those families would have -- I doubt that those people would have been in the country."

The billionaire, in an escalating feud with Republican presidential contender Jeb Bush, continued his assault on the legacy of former President George W. Bush.

"Jeb said 'we were safe with my brother.' 'We were safe.' Well, the World Trade Center just fell down," Trump continued. "Now, am I trying to blame him? I'm not blaming anybody. But the World Trade Center came down. So when he said, 'we were safe' -- that's not safe. We lost 3,000 people."

And had his immigration proposals been in place at the time, Trump said, "there's a good chance that those people would not have been in our country."

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Trump: My immigration plans would have prevented 9/11 (Original Post) Eugene Oct 2015 OP
Hmmm..... Cassiopeia Oct 2015 #1
21st century Pearl Harbor was coming Politicalboi Oct 2015 #2
He's the brightest and bestest, would have done everything goodest and nothing bad pinboy3niner Oct 2015 #3
He's starting to compete with Louie Gohmert for Stupid Of The Day hobbit709 Oct 2015 #4
Does the stupid fuck even know the hijackers were here with legal VISAS? onecaliberal Oct 2015 #5

Cassiopeia

(2,603 posts)
1. Hmmm.....
Sun Oct 18, 2015, 03:29 PM
Oct 2015
http://www.fairus.org/issue/identity-and-immigration-status-of-9-11-terrorists

According to authorities, all of the hijackers who committed the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks were foreigners. All of them entered the country legally on a temporary visa, mostly tourist visas with entry permits for six months. Although four of them attended flight school in the United States, only one is known to have entered on an appropriate visa for such study, and one entered on an F-1 student visa. Besides the four pilots, all but one of the terrorists entered the United States only once and had been in the country for only three to five months before the attacks.

pinboy3niner

(53,339 posts)
3. He's the brightest and bestest, would have done everything goodest and nothing bad
Sun Oct 18, 2015, 03:43 PM
Oct 2015

I'm sold! Where can I get me one of them there hats?

onecaliberal

(32,813 posts)
5. Does the stupid fuck even know the hijackers were here with legal VISAS?
Sun Oct 18, 2015, 03:48 PM
Oct 2015

The depth of his stupidity is truly frightening.

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