On Saturday, GOP presidential frontrunner Donald Trump said illegal immigrants are treated better than Wounded Warriors and veterans in America.
Speaking in Nashville at a National Federation of Republican Assemblies event, Trump said that âillegal immigrants, in many casesânot in all cases, but in many casesâare treated better than our veterans, who are the greatest people we have.â Trump spoke about some of the horrors veterans have had to face in accessing basic medical care and services and vowed that veterans would be treated like first-class citizens under a Trump administration.
After mentioning that illegal immigrants and DREAMers were protesting outside of the event, Trump asked, âWhat about our children?⌠Why canât our children that are in the country⌠Why canât they be the dreamers?â
Trump added, ânobody ever talks about them⌠we talk about the DREAMERs⌠we talk about the illegal immigrants, who, by the way, are treated better than the vets.â
At this yearâs Conservative Political Action Conference, former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin also blasted the Obama administration for treating illegal immigrants better than U.S. veterans.
âGive our vets the same freedoms they gave us,â Palin declared. âAnd instead of illegal aliens cutting in line and being rewarded with a handout of U.S. benefits, we demand that the vets are first in line.â
Conservative talk radio host and icon Mark Levin has also mentioned that ânobody talks about our kids as dreamers.â
âWhen is the last timeâŚwhen is the first time our kids were discussed when we discussed immigration?â Levin recently said, as Breitbart News has reported. âHow can it be that illegal immigrant kids are dreamers? Nobody talks about our kids as dreamers.â
Trump, who won the straw poll that was held at the event, vowed to win the Hispanic vote in the general election, saying that U.S.-born Hispanics and Hispanics who are in the country legally are also upset by illegal immigration.
Source: Breitbart