Jeb Bush “Immigrants are more fertile and they love families and they have more intact families and they bring a younger population,” he said on how immigrants can be the solution to declining fertility and population declines in the country, June 14, 2013. Herman Cain “We have put a man on the moon, we can build a fence! Now, my fence might be part Great Wall and part electrical technology…. It will be a 20-foot wall, barbed wire, electrified on the top, and on this side of the fence, I’ll have that moat that President Obama talked about. And I would put those alligators in that moat!” — Herman Cain, describing his plan to secure the Mexican border, Jun. 8, 2011 Rep. Steve King “You want a good bird dog? You want one that’s going to be aggressive? Pick the one that’s the friskiest … not the one that’s over there sleeping in the corner.” — Rep. Steve King, on picking good immigrants from bad ones, May 22, 2012 Neal Boortz “I don’t care if Mexicans pile up against that fence … just run a couple of taco trucks up and down the line.” — Talk radio host Neal Boortz, Jun. 18, 2007 Glenn Beck “[Mexico] has been overtaken by lawbreakers from the bottom to the top. And now, what you’re protesting for is to have lawbreakers come here.” — Glenn Beck, Mar. 27, 2006 Rep. Louie Gohmert “I talked to a retired FBI agent who said that one of the things they were looking at were terrorist cells overseas who had figured out how to game our system. And it appeared they would have young women, who became pregnant, would get them into the United States to have a baby… And then they would turn back where they could be raised and coddled as future terrorists.” — Rep. Louie Gohmert, June 24, 2010 Virgil Goode “If American citizens don’t wake up and adopt the Virgil Goode position on immigration, there will likely be many more Muslims elected to office and demanding the use of the Quran.” – Former Rep. Virgil Goode, on right, on the election of the first Muslim congressman, Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.), Dec. 20, 2006 Lou Dobbs “The invasion of illegal aliens is threatening the health of many Americans.” — former CNN host Lou Dobbs, connecting immigration to leprosy, Apr. 14, 2005 Pat Buchanan “They are not assimilated into America. Many Hispanics, as a matter of fact, you know what culture they are assimilating to? The rap culture, the crime culture, anti-cops, all the rest of it.” — Pat Buchanan, Aug. 23, 2006 Rush Limbaugh “An immigration agent chased him for the last 10 miles.” — Rush Limbaugh, on why a Mexican national won the New York marathon, Jan. 26, 1992
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