NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. — Donald Trump warned Republicans about immigration reform in a relatively restrained 18-minute speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference on Thursday, saying that “we either have borders or we don’t.”
The billionaire also took a swipe at Republican Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida — who participated in a bipartisan Senate immigration reform group that helped send a now-stalled plan to the House — and warned that pursuing immigration could result in creating more Democratic voters.
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“I don’t care who stands up, whether it’s Marco Rubio, who talks about ‘let everybody in,’” Trump said.
(POLITICO’s full coverage of CPAC)
“But of those 11 million potential voters, which will go to 30 million in the not-too-long future, you will not get any of those votes no matter what you do,” Trump said, referring to undocumented immigrants.
“So with immigration, you better be smart and you better be tough and they’re taking your jobs and you better be careful,” Trump added.
The perennial would-be candidate did not say anything about his own ambitions. He limited his swipes at the media, speaking to the audience just after National Rifle Association executive vice president and CEO Wayne LaPierre devoted a lengthy section of his speech to crowd-pleasing criticism of the press.
(Also on POLITICO: A viewer’s guide to CPAC 2014)
Trump’s remarks came after his latest falling-out with the media, over a BuzzFeed profile that called him out for making the rounds on a “fake campaign trail.”
He also criticized President Barack Obama for his handling of the latest Russia-Ukraine tensions, saying that Russian President Vladimir Putin was “toying” with Obama, and said the country is returning to territory reminiscent of “the late, great Jimmy Carter” — a possibly-facetious reference to the living, 89-year-old former Democratic president whom Republicans have maligned since the late 1970s.
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