Former Sen. Rick Santorum (R-PA) on Sunday condemned recent remarks made about Mexican immigrants by his fellow Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, but Santorum also insisted that Trump “points to a very important thing.”
Trump last month called Mexican immigrants “rapists” and drug dealers, prompting to numerous members in the Republican party to denounce his remarks.
When asked about Trump’s comments on CBS’ “Face The Nation,” Santorum said that he “certainly wouldn’t have said those things.”
“I don’t agree with his comments, obviously,” he said.
But Santorum noted that undocumented immigrants know they are breaking the law by entering the country.
“The vast majority of people coming legally into this country from Mexico and other places are people who want to do the right thing. People who are coming illegally obviously are coming with a bad intent, let’s just be honest. They’re coming in with the clear intent of breaking the law,” he said. “I don’t think we can sugar-coat that but that doesn’t mean that everybody who is coming across is a rapist or a murderer or anything else. Obviously, but they are breaking the law.”
Santorum said that Trump “points to a very important thing, which is we have a serious problem of illegal immigration in this country that is undermining American workers.”
“So while I don’t like verbiage he’s used, I like the fact that he is focused on a very important issue for American workers, and particularly legal immigrants in this country,” he said.
Watch the clip via CBS:
Did Santorum mention at all if he feels Hispanic illegals are smelly?
Republican right wing white Nationalism…Jeb Bush and Trump agree on that one. Nationalism is a Republican virtue.
The Republicans are all on the same page when it comes to RIGHT WING NATIONALISM! The same happened in Germany leading up to the rise of Hitler, the Nazi’s, and the Holocaust.
Since most African-Americans were enslaved and dragged to the US before Santorum and Trump and most of us other whites we here, maybe we need to gather up ourselves and the white Republicans and be deported back to Europe.
Bad intent, you weirdo? The people who hire undocumented workers break the law with the intent of saving money that would otherwise have gone to citizens and legal immigrants. The undocumented people are here, for the most part, to help feed their families. So the question of whose intent is badder is an interesting one. In other words, shut up, you freak.
“we have a serious problem of illegal immigration in this country that is undermining American workers.”
Whereas Wal-Mart’s reducing its U.S. tax payments by $3.5 billion via offshoring of $76 billion in profit in tax havens in Luxembourg and other countries where it does no business has no negative effects on American workers at all. It’s a mere coincidence that so many of Wal-Mart’s employees are so poorly paid that they have to resort to public assistance to get by.
http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2015/06/17/3670894/walmart-offshore-profits/
Frick! In what tanning bed did Santorum overstay his welcome? Some of these pasty-by-nature guys (and I’m one of them) need to stop it with that glazed-bbq appearance. Did Boehner start something here? Remember, Palin used to (still does?) tanning-bed herself for health purposes, she said. Or are they just trying to “appear” less white? Trump is all red, too. Just an observation.