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Trump Divides Party with Immigration Crack-Down Plan

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Billionaire Donald Trump is leading the GOP presidential pack in the polls and dividing the party with a call to rewrite the Constitution to crack down on millions of immigrants living here illegally.

His proposal to end birthright citizenship is creating perhaps the most buzz. Birthright citizenship gives citizenship to anyone born in the United States, no matter the status of their parents. Trump calls it a "magnet for illegal immigration."

Some GOP presidential candidates, including Sen. Marco Rubio, Gov. John Kasich and former Gov. Jeb Bush, have been quick to denounce Trump's call to end birthright citizenship.

Rubio told reporters at the Iowa State Fair that he doubted there would be much support in Congress.

Trump's immigration plan has touched off a fierce debate within the GOP party. While it appeals to some of the party's core voters, it worries party leaders who know they need to recapture the Latino vote. In 2012, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney won just 27 percent.

Hispanics now make up 11 percent of all eligible voters nationwide and census figures show they are the fastest-growing population group.

Conservative activist and founder of The Libre Initiative Daniel Garza said Hispanics cannot be ignored.

"You have to engage the Latino electorate and if you don't, you do so at your peril," he told CBN News.

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker is also making news on the campaign trail right now. With his numbers in Iowa tanking, Walker unveiled his healthcare plan called "Day One Patient Freedom Plan."

It calls on Congress to repeal President Barack Obama's Affordable Care Act and incentivizes members by forcing them to be covered by the ACA. 

Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton continues to face questions about the private email account she used while serving as Secretary of State. 

At a Las Vegas press event, after a reporter asked her three times if she wiped her private server before handing it over to the FBI for investigation, Clinton replied with an attempt at humor.

"What, like with a cloth or something?" she joked.

"I don't know how it works digitally at all... we have turned over the server," she continued. "They can do whatever they want to with the server to figure it out--what's there and what's not there. That's for, you know, the people investigating to try to figure out.  But we turned over everything that was work-related."

Several liberal activists are also unhappy with Clinton right now after she told a private group from Black Lives Matter that they should promote policy change rather than focusing on "changing hearts."  

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Heather Sells covers wide-ranging stories for CBN News that include religious liberty, ministry trends, immigration, and education. She’s known for telling personal stories that capture the issues of the day, from the border sheriff who rescues migrants in the desert to the parents struggling with a child that identifies as transgender. In the last year, she has reported on immigration at the Texas border, from Washington, D.C., in advance of the Dobbs abortion case, at crisis pregnancy centers in Massachusetts, and on sexual abuse reform at the annual Southern Baptist meeting in Anaheim