WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on the 2016 presidential campaign, with primaries in five states Tuesday and Republican front-runner Donald Trump trying to move closer to nailing down his party’s nomination:
About two-thirds of Republican primary voters in all five states voting Tuesday support temporarily banning non-citizen Muslims from entering the United States, but majorities in all five say they want immigrants already in the United States illegally to be allowed a chance to stay.
That’s according to early results of exit polls conducted for the Associated Press and television networks for Edison Research.
Only about 4 in 10 Republican voters in each state want all immigrants in the country illegally to be deported.
The proportion of GOP primary voters saying they want a ban on non-citizen Muslims entering the United States is as high as three-quarters in Missouri.
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“Temporarily” is such an elastic concept. I am heartened somewhat that c. 60% of these GOPers support legalizing the undocumented immigrants already here.
At the risk of going Godwin, people seem to forget that all of the Nazis earliest ethnic and social repression measures were billed as being “temporary” and only for as long as the national emergency required.
Which ended up being until the Nazis were defeated in WW2, more than a decade later.
In any case, ask those same GOPers if they’d support a permanent ban on Muslim immigrants and I’d suspect the number still would be an alarming plurality.
I support the immediate deportation of any US resident that thinks Muslins should be blocked from the US. IMMEDIATELY. They are not really Americans.
Those republican-voting European Americans better get the hell out of Missouri stat!
F*#%cking immigrants.
Also, three-fourths support leech-based medicine.
Another four-fifths believe sacred underwear protects them from The Lizard People.
And – most shockingly – nine out of ten actually bought this album: