QOTD: Trumpie’s back
by digby
“Oh, illegal immigrants are the backbone of our country? I don’t think so, darling,” I don’t think so. I don’t think so. No, I don’t think so. They’re not the backbone.
“Let me just tell you something. Let me just tell you something. You know what the backbone of our country [is]? People that came here, and they came here legally — people that came here to this country legally, and they worked their ass off, and they made this country great.”
He’s taken to calling people darling on the stump I’ve noticed. It’s got a little Liberace vibe about it.
For the record, migration back and forth over the southern border has been happening throughout our history with plenty of people from Mexico and other parts of Latin America participating in every single aspect of building America to what it is today. “Legality” had nothing to do with it. It didn’t even exist until the 20th century.
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