Saying you want to follow the law and keep people from coming across the border unless they do it legally is not racist. Any single way you slice it.
What about saying the majority of immigrants are rapists? Is that racist enough for you?
That is NOT what Trump said.
Trump was referring to ILLEGAL immigrants. And murder, rape, drug activity, and other violent criminal activity has come to America in the form of Transnational Gang members from Mexico and Central America.
http://fas.org/sgp/crs/row/RL34233.pdfThese folks "do their business" (often violent business for foreign drug cartels) in the streets of American cities. They get to do so because of the porousness of our borders. I believe, quite frankly, that our President, and our Presidential candidates, all of them, ought to be discussing this issue in its proper context.
Border Security is an element of Public Safety, which is a fundamental function of government and a right of every person living in America.