DNC Chair on Trump: ‘When He’s in the Biggest Trouble,’ He Blows ‘The Biggest Dog Whistle,’ Immigration

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PEREZ: "We are a nation of laws and the laws that are on the books deal with issues of refugee and asylum status and those are the laws that have always applied. They were applied when George W. Bush was president, when Barack Obama was president. They’ve been in place for decades. And again, yes, you correctly point out, they are a couple thousand miles or a thousand miles away from the border, and they are walking. It’s a humanitarian issue of significance, and our laws require that people be treated with dignity and given that process. But Donald Trump isn’t bringing this up for any reason other than to distract people. It’s his closing argument. When he’s in the biggest trouble, the biggest dog whistle he blows is the immigration dog whistle, and the good news is they tried to do that last year in Virginia and New Jersey, it didn’t work, and people understand that. We saw a Democratic primary turnout go up 89 percent from 2014 and we’re going to continue to focus on the issues that people care about. We’re not going to get distracted."