October 4, 2016 | No Comments
Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Kaine tore into Donald Trump’s record on illegal immigration, insisting that Trump running mate Mike Pence was trying to “fuzz up” the candidate’s hardline position on the issue.
“He said about your judge, a Hoosier judge — he said Judge Curiel was unqualified to hear a case because his parents were Mexicans,” Kaine said, referencing Trump’s attacks over the summer on a federal judge born in Indiana. “I can’t imagine how you would defend that.”
Pence, the Republican governor of Indiana, said in the vice presidential debate that Trump’s emphasis was on border security first, and reforming the immigration system later. But he also dismissed calls for comprehensive immigration reform as a Capitol Hill “routine,” saying such an effort is the equivalent of “amnesty.”
“Border security, removing criminal aliens, upholding with law, and then, Senator, I’ll work you when you go back to the Senate, I promise you, we’ll work you to reform the immigration system,” Pence said to Kaine, the Virginia senator.
“I look forward to working together in whatever capacities we serve in, but I just want to make it very, very clear, that he’s trying to fuzz up what Donald Trump has said,” Kaine said, adding: “He said, quote, ‘They will all be gone. They will all be gone.’ And this is one of those ones where you can just go to the tape on it and see what Donald Trump has said.”
Pence insisted that Trump’s remarks were directed at “criminal aliens,” though the Republican nominee has not always made that distinction when talking about a deportation force for undocumented immigrants.