Sarah Palin's Latest Anti-Immigrant Comments Continue a Horrible Election Trend

[Janelle2002 3,865]

Sarah Palin's Latest Anti-Immigrant Comments Continue a Horrible Election Trend

Mic

Mathew Rodriguez 5 hours ago

If there's one person who hasn't run for president but has still had an awful lot to say this election cycle, it's Sarah Palin. She's delivered a bizarre Trump endorsement speech and pointed out the "punk-### little thuggery" of Trump protesters, and now she's brought her famous "right-wingin', bitter-clingin'" sing-song rhetoric to the ongoing conversation on immigration.

While speaking to a crowd in Wisconsin ahead of Tuesday's Republican primary, Palin insinuated well, it's not really clear. But whatever she was implying, it included politicians offering "welcome baskets" to incoming immigrants, many of them undocumented.

Sarah Palin's Latest Anti-Immigrant Comments Continue a Horrible Election Trend

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"What the heck are you thinking, candidates?" Palin asked voters, according to Raw Story. "What the heck are you thinking when you're actually asking for more immigrants even illegal immigrants, welcoming them in."

Sarah Palin's Latest Anti-Immigrant Comments Continue a Horrible Election Trend

Source: Mic/YouTube

Sarah Palin's Latest Anti-Immigrant Comments Continue a Horrible Election Trend

Source: Mic/YouTube

Then, Palin suggested candidates though she didn't say who were "inducing" and "seducing" immigrants with gift baskets. "Come on over the border and here's a gift basket of teddy bears and soccer balls," she said mockingly.

The worst part? In an eight-minute speech, Palin received nearly zero claps. And her speak of soccer balls and and teddy bears urged more people to check their phones than give standing ovations.

Palin's latest comments are just a drop in the bucket of Republican anti-immigration rhetoric the highest-profile remark of 2016 coming from Trump in the form of comments equating Mexicans with drug users, rapists and general criminality.

Immigration reform became personal during a debate earlier in the election, when Sen. Marco Rubio, whose parents are Cuban immigrants, and Sen. Ted Cruz, who was born in Canada to Cuban immigrants, got into a verbal spar over immigration, resulting in Cruz snapping at Rubio with some of his best Spanish.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/sarah-palins-latest-anti-immigrant-170800341.html

https://youtu.be/Q3ws-VDDhd4

Thought I'd post this quote one more time.

What the heck are you thinking, candidates?" Palin asked voters, according to Raw Story. "What the heck are you thinking when you're actually asking for more immigrants even illegal immigrants, welcoming them in."

Edited April 2, 2016 by Janelle2002

[Jacque67 7,328]

What the heck? Sarah Palin gave an 8 minute speech???

[Janelle2002 3,865]

What the heck? Sarah Palin gave an 8 minute speech???

Wonder what Trump promised her

[Jacque67 7,328]

Wonder what Trump promised her

Don't even want to think about it-lol. It's still morning here;)

[OnMyWayID 1,489]

Palin is proof Trump is not a genius behind the scenes and not just puling the wool over everyone's eyes..

I need Bogal for the Glotch!

[Rob L 3,811]

What the heck? Sarah Palin gave an 8 minute speech???

She may have talked for 8 minutes..but we are unsure what language she is using

Some decisions that have been made poorly, obsessive partisanship to look at that as more opportunity.

It has been overwhelming to me that confirmation of also bipartisan effort for healthcare reform.

At the same time, that is what America needs today not pointing fingers at one another.

What I think Americans at the end of the day are going to be able to go back and look at that is what America needs today have provided me a lot of perspective on the world.

[ready4ONE 5,400]

Failin' Palin! Getting all mavericky for the Drumpf!

[Janelle2002 3,865]

She may have talked for 8 minutes..but we are unsure what language she is using

Some decisions that have been made poorly, obsessive partisanship to look at that as more opportunity.

It has been overwhelming to me that confirmation of also bipartisan effort for healthcare reform.

At the same time, that is what America needs today not pointing fingers at one another.

What I think Americans at the end of the day are going to be able to go back and look at that is what America needs today have provided me a lot of perspective on the world.

Hahahahahaha haha yeap. She definitely trained under Trump. The master at saying everything, while meaning nothing, yet managing applauds. Ridiculous