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Ana Navarro

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  1. “Now, I'm going to turn this around on you. You were there. I remember the 2008 election that promised that then candidate Obama made to pass immigration reform in the first year. He passed healthcare reform. What went into that choice and what was the deliberative process of trying to do it, not to do it? What was it like behind the scenes”

    2018-10-11 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 276 — Ana Navarro · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  2. “And I think what you just said about a great contributor to the country, I think I feel a duty and a burden to contribute. And I have no patience for those who come to America, you know, where there's so much opportunity where there's so many things to take advantage of and to be feel blessed and fortunate about and then commit crimes. Because oftentimes when you talk about immigration, People want to paint this as an either all or nothing, either your open borders or you build the wall. No, it's a hell of a lot more complicated. Nuanced than that. And I don't know anybody who is truly an immigration reform, a comprehensive immigration reform advocate who doesn't agree that people who come here and commit heinous crimes should be punished to the full extent of the law.”

    2018-10-11 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 276 — Ana Navarro · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  3. “United States or Costa Rica or Honduras, I don't know, but I know they would have tried to raise me in safety and in freedom. And so when I look at these Dream Act kids in particular, which just breaks my heart, I think of myself. I do. I keep thinking, you know, but for the fact that my parents had all these resources and the wherewithal and the ability, I could have been a Dream Act kid too. But for the, but I would tell you that but for the legal papers, I am a Dream Act kid. I'm an eight-year-old who was brought here by her parents through no fault or decision of her own and grew up to love this country and accept this country and embrace this country as my own. You know, I am as American as anybody else. And so I think that's how most of the Dream Act kids feel, except that, you know, I've got a U.S. passport, a naturalization certificate. They don't.”

    2018-10-11 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 276 — Ana Navarro · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  4. “Your country when you ask me how I process it, it always goes back, and I think that's how most people, and I think it's human nature process things, it always goes back to my personal experience. And for me, this was a first-hand experience for many Americans, they've heard stories of their parents or their grandparents or their great-grandparents coming here and what they experience. Look, I came here at the age of eight. My mom and dad made the decision and took the action of bringing me here. They had resources. They had US visas. They paid plane tickets. They could put me in a private school and keep me here legal through a student visa. But I know, for I know in my heart that if none of that had been true, if they had been desperately poor, they would have still tried every possible way to get me out of a communist dictatorship where I would have been indoctrinated and bring me to freedom, whether that would have been.”

    2018-10-11 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 276 — Ana Navarro · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  5. “But then, you know, then as things evolved also on issues like immigration, it was Jeb Bush. It was Connie Mack, Senator Connie Mack back then, who helped pass the Nicaraguan Adjustment Central American Relief Act, giving visas, giving residencies, giving green cards to hundreds of thousands of Nicaraguans and Central Americans. I did. And so it was a different time. It was a different time in Florida, certainly. It was a different time in the country and it was a different time in the Republican Party.”

    2018-10-11 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 276 — Ana Navarro · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  6. “I settled in Miami and I grew up in Miami and it's also part of the reason why I'm Republican. I went to a community where the congress people, where the governors were the senators were standing up for us and representing us and embracing us and we were part of that big tent. People like Lincoln Diaz Bollard and Ileana Ross Layton, the first Hispanic congresswoman ever elected to Congress who's retiring this year after serving 28 years. People like Jeb Bush, he's not Hispanic, but he's close enough. People like Mel Martinez and Connie Mac. And, you know, it was just a complete, it was a place where you felt represented, well represented within the Republican Party, particularly on these issues of foreign policy, on these issues. Anti-communism human rights.”

    2018-10-11 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 276 — Ana Navarro · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  7. “Right. And I'm a Republican now while he's just pretending to be one. But so look, you know, I've always heard about the 1960s and how John F. Kennedy, there were every Irish family and every Latin family had a picture of John F. Kennedy on their mantle. And that's how it was in the Cuban American community, in the Nicaraguan community. With Reagan because of the Cold War, because he stood up against communism. And that meant something to us.”

    2018-10-11 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 276 — Ana Navarro · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  8. “My father was. My father never quite moved to Miami for the longest time. So initially it was just my mom and my siblings in Miami. My dad stayed behind trying to hold on to the properties and playing GI Joe he ended up in the mountains of Costa Rica and as part of the revolutionaries, as part of the anti-revolutionaries, as part of the Contras, which is people ask me often these days why I'm a Republican and why I'm still a Republican. And, you know, you've got to remember, and look, I know there's a lot of people that have a lot of Trump.”

    2018-10-11 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 276 — Ana Navarro · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  9. “She was younger than that, even And it was something that was life changing. And look, Nicaragua was a beautiful country, incredible natural resources. It's got Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Ocean. It's got greenery. It's got so many natural resources, but it suffered from political and natural disasters when it's not a earthquake. It's a dictatorship. When it's not a dictatorship, it's a hurricane. When it's not a hurricane, it's a left-wing revolution and dictatorship. And so it's had very difficult decades my entire lifetime. There's been some sort of political strife going on in the country.”

    2018-10-11 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 276 — Ana Navarro · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  10. “It wasn't my grandfather was a landowner, a large landowner, and there was, you know, he got robbed and he got shot during the robbing as he was going down a, I guess, a dirt path at that moment in time in his car to pay to do the weekly payments of the workers and he got robbed and he got shot and he died. And your mom”

    2018-10-11 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 276 — Ana Navarro · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  11. “Well, it's a little rough there at the moment. The dictator has decided to be a dictator again. And, you know, there was a revolution. There was a Sandinista revolution. First, there was a right-wing dictator who lasted decades, his family. And then there was a revolution. We ended up fleeing to Miami, my mom.”

    2018-10-11 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 276 — Ana Navarro · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source