Take the ‘Racist Xenophobe’ Quiz: Who Said This About Illegal Immigration?

Which alleged “racist xenophobe” made these statements about illegal immigration?

“Those who enter the country illegally and those who employ them disrespect the rule of law, and they are showing disregard for those who are following the law. We simply cannot allow people to pour into the United States undetected, undocumented (and) unchecked, and circumventing the line of people who are waiting patiently, diligently and lawfully to become immigrants in this country.”

A) Adolf Hitler

B) Donald Trump

C) Barack Obama

Answer: Then-Sen. Obama, news conference, 2005

“Our administration has moved aggressively to secure our borders more by hiring a record number of new border guards, by deporting twice as many criminal aliens as ever before, by cracking down on illegal hiring, by barring welfare benefits to illegal aliens.”

A) Joseph Stalin

B) Donald Trump

C) Bill Clinton

Answer: President Clinton, State of the Union address, 1995

“If making it easy to be an illegal alien isn’t enough, how about offering an award to be an illegal immigrant. No sane country would do that, right? Guess again.”

A) Jack the Ripper

B) Donald Trump

C) Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev.

Answer: Reid, Senate floor, 1993

“In approaching immigration reform, I believe we must enact tough, practical reforms that ensure and promote the legal and orderly entry of immigrants into our country.”

A) Idi Amin

B) Donald Trump

C) Barack Obama

Answer: Sen. Obama, Senate floor, 2007

“We all agree on the need to better secure the border, and to punish employers who choose to hire illegal immigrants.”

A) Pol Pot

B) Donald Trump

C) Barack Obama

Answer: Sen. Obama, 2005

“All Americans, not only in the states most heavily affected but in every place in this country, are rightly disturbed by the large numbers of illegal aliens entering our country. The jobs they hold might otherwise be held by citizens or legal immigrants. The public services they use impose burdens on our taxpayers.”

A) Michael Myers

B) Donald Trump

C) Bill Clinton

Answer: President Clinton, State of the Union address, 1995

“We will try to do more to speed the deportation of illegal aliens who are arrested for crimes, to better identify illegal aliens in the workplace.”

A) Jeffrey Dahmer

B) Donald Trump

C) Bill Clinton

Answer: President Clinton, State of the Union address, 1995

“I continue to believe that we need stronger enforcement on the border and at the workplace. And that means a workable mandatory system that employers must use to verify the legality of their workers.”

A) Kim Jong Un

B) Donald Trump

C) Barack Obama

Answer: Sen. Obama, Senate floor, 2007

“If you break our laws by entering this country without permission and give birth to a child, we reward that child with U.S. citizenship and guarantee full access to all public and social services this society provides — and that’s a lot of services. Is it any wonder that two-thirds of babies born at taxpayer expense (in) county-run hospitals in Los Angeles are born to illegal alien mothers?”

A) Kim Kardashian

B) Donald Trump

C) Harry Reid

Answer: Sen. Reid, Senate floor, 1993

“We need to start by giving agencies charged with border security new technology, new facilities and more people to stop, process and deport illegal immigrants.”

A) Rasputin

B) Donald Trump

C) Barack Obama

Answer: Sen. Barack Obama, 2005

“Right now we’ve got millions of illegal immigrants who live and work here without knowing their identity or background.”

A) Freddy Krueger

B) Donald Trump

C) Barack Obama

Answer: Sen. Obama, 2005

“We are a nation of immigrants. But we are also a nation of laws. It is wrong and ultimately self-defeating for a nation of immigrants to permit the kind of abuse of our immigration laws we have seen in recent years, and we must do more to stop it.”

A) Vlad the Impaler

B) Donald Trump

C) Bill Clinton

Answer: President Clinton, State of the Union address,1995

“Let me repeat: We need strong border security at the borders.”

A) Hassan Nasrallah

B) Donald Trump

C) Barack Obama

Answer: Barack Obama, 2005

“If only everyone (in the Middle East) could be like Scandinavians, (achieving peace) would all be easy.”

A) Al Capone

B) Donald Trump

C) Barack Obama

Answer: President Obama, 2016

“There are too many (migrants) now. … Europe, for example, Germany, cannot become an Arab country. Germany is Germany. … From a moral point of view, too, I think refugees should only be admitted temporarily.”

A) Joseph Goebbels

B) Donald Trump

C) Dalai Llama

Answer: Dalai Llama, 2016

Not long ago, both Democrats and Republicans advocated safe, secure borders and an immigration policy of admitting immigrants who benefit, not burden, Americans. Que pasó?

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