Rubio Blasts Trump for Hiring Illegal Aliens; Trump Responds: ‘You Haven’t Hired Anybody’

by Susan Jones, CNSnews:

Several of the debate’s most heated moments Thursday night came in exchanges between Sen. Marco Rubio and Donald Trump. The accusations and insults ping-ponged back and forth, as with this exchange on immigration issue:

Rubio asked Trump to acknowleged that “you’re the only person on this stage that has ever been fined for hiring people to work on your projects illegally. You hired some workers from Poland–”

“No, no, I’m the only one on the stage that’s hired people. You haven’t hired anybody,” Trump shot back. The exchange began when Rubio criticized Trump for advocating “self-deportation.” Then he attacked Trump for illegally hiring foreigners instead of American citizens.

“My mom and dad — my mom was a maid at a hotel, and instead of hiring an American like her, you have brought in over a thousand people from all over the world to fill those jobs instead,” Rubio said.

“So I think this is an important issue. And I think we are realizing increasingly that it’s an important issue for the country that has been debated for 30 years, but finally needs to be solved once and for all.”

Trump defended his plan to deport everyone who is in the country illegally.

“Self-deportation is, people are going to leave as soon as they see others going out. If you look at Dwight Eisenhower in the 1950s, they started moving people out and the rest of them left. Self-deportation, as I really define it, and that’s the way I define it, is you’re going to get some to go, and the rest are going to go out.

“As far as the people that I’ve hired in various parts of Florida during the absolute prime season, like Palm Beach and other locations, you could not get help. It’s the up season. People didn’t want to have part-time jobs. There were part-time jobs, very seasonal, 90-day jobs, 120-day jobs, and you couldn’t get (them filled).

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