She also said former Fox News chief Roger Ailes does not have a “formal or informal” advisory role with the campaign, but said Ailes and Trump speak and are “old friends”.
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The campaign for Donald Trump and Trump’s fellow Republican supporters argued Sunday that the unpredictable presidential nominee had an outstanding, comeback week amid new leadership but still faced a barrage of questions about what’s next – particularly about Trump’s plan for the massive deportation of illegal immigrants. Buzzfeed News reported that Trump was looking to be “humane” in dealing with the undocumented population.
His new campaign manager, Kellyanne Conway, was asked on CNN’s “State of the Union” if Trump still wants a “deportation force” to remove everyone in the country illegally, as he has vowed repeatedly on the campaign trail.
Sen. Jeff Sessions, an Alabama Republican and adviser to Trump on immigration policy, said Sunday on CBS’s Face the Nation that the GOP nominee has not made a “firm commitment” on whether he would deport massive numbers of illegal immigrants.
Conway replied: “To be determined”. “That can include you”, Conway said on ABC’s “This Week”. “People that are here unlawfully, came into the country against our laws, are subject to being removed”. Trump said he regretted some of his remarks have caused “personal pain”. When pressed by Bash to say whether Trump has chose to drop mass deportation from his menu of solutions, Conway responded: “To be determined”.
“Mr. Trump said nothing today that he hasn’t said many times before, including in his convention speech-enforce our immigration laws, uphold the Constitution and be fair and humane while putting American workers first”, Cheung said.
BASH: So, does Donald Trump still support a deportation force removing the 11 million or so undocumented immigrants?
And in New York City on Saturday, Trump told his campaign’s newly named Latino advisory council that he wants to find a “humane and efficient” solution to deal with illegal immigration.
On Saturday, Trump met with a Hispanic Advisory Council at Trump Tower in NY and mentioned a “humane and efficient” way to deal with undocumented immigrants, according to Buzzfeed.
The Republican National Committee also was represented at the meeting, held in the 25th-floor boardroom of Trump Tower in midtown Manhattan. “And I think he’s going to get this thing back on track”.
The Trump campaign immediately disputed that characterizations of the talk, adding that the candidate didn’t say anything at the meeting “that he hasn’t said many times before”.
In April, Conway appeared on CNN and defended a short-lived alliance between Ohio Gov. John Kasich and Senator Ted Cruz to stop Trump, a strategy that she considered “fair game”.
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Immigration – a significant concern for Hispanic voters and a central issue of Trump’s candidacy – came up at the candidate’s prompting, according to Jacob Monty, a Houston-based immigration attorney who handles complex immigration issues for large corporations, including the New York Yankees.
