First, the voice of the anti-immigration cause.
Immigration has become a centrepiece of Mr Trump’s campaign thanks to the over-the-top rhetoric in his kick-off speech in New York, where he accused Mexico of “bringing drugs, and bringing crime, and their rapists” to the US.
While his views were condemned as extreme and racially tinged, his immigration stance appears to be resonating with a significant portion of the Republican primary electorate.
According to that CNN/ORC survey, 63% of Republicans support deporting the estimated 11 million illegal immigrants in the US. Of that number, 23% back Mr Trump, while only 10% support second-place Bush.
“It is immigration - its universally celebrated benefits and its barely acknowledged costs - that is the third rail of US politics,” writes Matthew Continetti for the Washington Free Beacon. “Trump didn’t step on the third rail; he embraced it, he won’t let go of it, and in so doing he’s become electric.”
- Five reasons Trump still tops the polls, BBC.com, July 27, 2017.
2. This was more than sidewalk video now, or the sound of shouts and police gunfire in Baton Rouge in the last moments of Alton Sterling’s life. This was something more in Falcon Heights, Minn., on Wednesday before Philando Castile was shot dead by a police officer for the crimes of being black and having a busted taillight and telling the cop who shot him that there was a gun in his car — along with his fiancée and a 4-year-old girl — right before reaching for identification became a threat to men with guns already out.
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