If they are half as motivated as the young people I am talking to in Chicago. Donald Trump could have a tremendous impact on the youth vote in the coming election. But lets be honest. do we really want to motivate civic participation through fear of deportation. racial profiling. and families being broken up? These are American teenagers growing up to distrust their government. Trump wants to take us back to the good old days of race relations. which apparently means the 1950s. when President Eisenhower evicted millions of immigrants and U.S. citizens from the United States. Dr. Carson. who believes that human history is only about 5.000 years oldthat is what he says. we have only been around 5.000 yearssays of mass deportation schemes: "I think its worth discussing." Here in the House. we have considered measures to deport children more quickly. to make groups more distrustful of the police. and to delay Homeland Security funding. Testifying on one of these bills before the Rules Committee last year. I made the unfortunate but real suggestion that Republicans were gravitating toward mass deportation policies. which provoked a response from the chairman. Mr. SESSIONS. He said: GUTIERREZ. "there is no one in responsible Republican leadership that has said we should deport 13 or 11 million people. And I find it extremely distasteful that people would come here and suggest things that we have not suggested." Well. now that people are suggesting mass deportation openly and are gaining in the public opinion polls in the Republican Party. I wonder why there is so much silence from the Republican Members of this body. But it is not just young Latino voters in Chicago that are being motivated by Republican attacks.
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