![]() Vela accused Trump of descending to “a new low” in his latest attack against Indiana-born federal Judge Gonzalo Curiel. “Why any modern-thinking person would ever believe that building a wall along the border of a neighboring country, which is both our ally and one of our largest trading partners, is frankly astounding and asinine,” wrote Vela, who added that he would tear to pieces any walls on the U.S.-Mexico border. Citing the Chamber of Commerce, he said the trade relationship is responsible for 6 million jobs and hundreds of billions of dollars in revenue from importing goods from and exporting goods to Mexico. Noting that Mexico “no doubt” has its problems, Vela also hailed it as one of America’s largest trading partners. ![]() Chamber of Commerce agrees that these workers deserve a national immigration policy that would give them a pathway to citizenship.” That is precisely why the Republican-leaning U.S. “Thousands of our businesses would come to a grinding halt if we invoked a policy that would require ‘mass deportation’ as you and many of your supporters would suggest. “If I had to guess, your own business enterprises either directly or indirectly employ more of these workers than most other businesses in our country,” he continued. ![]() “Your position with respect to the millions of undocumented Mexican workers who now live in this country is hateful, dehumanizing, and frankly shameful,” Vela wrote, arguing that most of those individuals work in hotels, restaurants, construction and agricultural fields. Trump has called for a temporary ban on Muslims entering the U.S., a wall on the southern border that Mexico will pay for and the deportation of some 11 million undocumented immigrants.
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