Trump Trolls Schumer on Twitter, Brings Up Anti-Illegal Immigration Quote from 2009
By Randy DeSoto
August 15, 2018 at 11:00am
In a tweet on Wednesday, President Donald Trump highlighted that Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer espoused positions on illegal immigration very similar to his own not too long ago.
Trump quoted Schumer from a 2009 speech he gave at Georgetown University Law School.
“People who enter the United States without our permission are illegal aliens and illegal aliens should not be treated the same as people who entered the U.S. legally,” Schumer said.
Schumer’s comments came not long after a failed bi-partisan push to reform the nation’s immigration system in 2007.
“Illegal immigration is wrong, plain and simple,” the New York senator emphasized during his remarks.
“Until the American people are convinced that we will stop future flows of illegal immigration, we will make no progress in dealing with the millions of illegal immigrants who are here now and on rationalizing our system of legal immigration.”