In an effort to reshape the debate over immigration reform, Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Preibus harshly criticized Mitt Romney’s self-deportation comments from the 2012 GOP primary while speaking to reporters on Thursday. Republican leaders have long feared the current dialogue could doom the party with Latino voters in a repeat of the 2007 reform…
reporter: as for the migrants who arrived here in new york city, about half will be bussed to other cities and half will rely on resources here in new york city. kevin: thank you. reminder don t forget to check out jesse watters primetime tonight right after the special report. tens of thousands of adults who came to the u.s. are at risk for self - self-deportation. reporter: for hundreds of thousands of young legal immigrants, the clock is ticking towards self-deportation. something in most people aren t aware of that it s possible for a immigrant child
doesn t pass the smell test. he s got a senior adviser on the july 25th call and you tell me that person didn t go back to mike pence and say during that call the president seemed to tie a ukraine aide to digging up dirt on the bidens? we re supposed to believe that didn t reach mike pence? reached the mike pence and the whistle-blower but not pence? i don t think so. china, the president said if listening today, go investigate the bidens. trying to send a signal i m doing so little wrong here i m willing to bring it up. other countries get in on the action, come on. and entirely constitutional? if he s being consistent to his own contention saying i m so unashamed what i did i m proud enough to repeat the offer to another country out here in public is his thinking, buts thing is. but it s wrong. it s wrong. remember the 2012 campaign, talked about self-deportation.
he wants to scare these migrant families, he wants self-deportation and chill the others from participating in american life. the fact is that our migrant community, whether documented or undocumented, add a lot to this country. they help us move forward. they don t deserve to be terrorized like this. and last time he all of a sudden said that he s going to postpone the raids, he talks so much, you don t know what to believe. but i m glad that los angeles and chicago and other police departments are pushing back. there have been some just despicable online racist attacks on your fellow candidate senator kamala harris including one that the president son s donald trump jr. re-tweeted. what is your reaction? that is disgusting. that has no place in our politics. and this is the game that these folks play.
political weapon to draw up fear and paranoia in his base. he thinks this is going to help him get re-elected with a narrow electoral college victory in 2020 the way he got in 2016. he wants to scare these immigrant families. he wants self-deportation. cnn political reporter rebecca buck is in houston where castro is about to speak to a gathering of texas democrats. rebecca, you just spoke to castro also, didn t you? what did he have to say? reporter: that s right, fred. well, yesterday castro was on the border yesterday morning trying to tour a detention center in clint, texas, where he was denied entry, keeping immigration at the center of his campaign for president. this was the issue that put him in the spotlight in the first democratic debate on wednesday when he tusseled with beto o rourke. we asked him if he intends to