Trump had long promised to identify and remove the estimated 11 million immigrants already living in the United States illegally.
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Donald Trump’s immigration stance has reverted back to its original, ignorant, deportation-heavy norm.
“This election we’ll decide whether we have a border”, Trump said, vowing again to build a wall on the southern border.
“We are going to follow the laws of this country”, Trump added. The existing laws, the first thing we are going to do if and when I win, we are going to get rid of all of the bad ones. But we’ve got some really, really bad gang members and some terrible people.
“There could certainly be a softening, because we’re not looking to hurt people”, Trump responded.
“So you have somebody who’s been in the country for 20 years, has done a great job, and everything else”, Trump said. “And before he degrades immigrant families who work hard and give up everything they knew to come to this country, he should put up – or shut up”.
It remains to be seen whether Trump’s supporters, or are furiously anti-Obama, especially when it comes to immigration, will be happy to hear that Trump plans to simply continue Obama’s immigration policies if he is elected president. What people don’t know is that Obama got tremendous numbers of people out of the country, Bush the same thing. Lots of people were brought out of the country with the existing laws. Those people are going out day one. they’re going to be the first order I sign. For more than a year, Trump insisted that all illegal immigrants “have got to go” and that he would create a “deportation force” to carry out the task.
When Trump’s campaign manager, Kellyanne Conway, was asked over the weekend by CNN whether Trump still wants to see a deportation force, she said that was “to be determined”.
If true, this would not just be any reversal from Trump, but a major reversal on his signature issue- the issue that rocketed him to the nomination, and one that will inevitably garner exacting coverage on our domestic Spanish-language media. He says existing rules will be used to deal with illegal immigrants.
With the Trump Tower as a backdrop, Chicago City Clerk Susana Mendoza said you can’t believe any signals from Trump that he’s ready to change his position on undocumented immigrants. Reports out of that meeting suggested that Trump would change his policy on deportation, and Trump said those reports were wrong.
“We’re rounding ’em up in a very humane way, in a very nice way. But you have really great people wanting and so proudly wanting to come into our country and now what you’re doing is you take people away from that line”. “You don’t have to put them in a detention centre”, he said.
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Trump went on to lament homicides, rapes, burglaries and other crimes committed in Texas by immigrants in the USA illegally, inviting several mothers of the victims to join him on stage and share their grief.
