His campaign insists he’s not.
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Indeed, it’s revealing that hard-core immigration hawks are not hearing anything alarming in Trump’s new rhetoric.
Trump spews empty promises about improving things like the unemployment rate, the crime rate and the lack of ownership in Black communities while running a campaign built on making America what it once was when African-Americans were treated with even less regard in the workforce, in their communities and on the economic front than we are today. In 2014, Obama announced executive actions to direct resources to deporting felons, terrorism suspects and new border crossers, while going easier on undocumented people who have lived in the USA for years and aren’t committing crimes inside the country.
Amid signs from his campaign that he was reconsidering his past support for deporting all 11 million people believed to be in the USA illegally, Trump struck a conciliatory note in a town hall-style interview with Fox News host Sean Hannity.
Donald Trump insults the state of Black communities while questioning what we have to lose by electing him as president. He presented a detailed deportation plan for 11 million immigrants in the USA illegally, complete with estimated timeframes and references to a “deportation force”.
“Two million more Latinos will vote this election cycle than in 2012 and let me assure you they will vote in Florida, they will vote in Colorado, Ohio and Pennsylvania … in the battle states across the country, they will vote”, he said on the call.
In a June interview with Bloomberg, Trump rejected the characterization of his deportation plan as “mass deportations”. “To be determined”, Conway said. “He wouldn’t suggest that his supporters beat up protesters”, said Butterfield, adding that Trump is “grossly out of touch” with minority voters.
“Is there any part of the law that you might be able to change that would accommodate those people that contribute to society, have been law abiding, have kids here – would there be any room in your mind because I know you had a meeting this week with Hispanic leaders”, Hannity said in an excerpt released by Fox News.
Poor Conway had better get used to explaining what her candidate must have meant as opposed to what he actually said. He said Trump has a “what-can-the-campaign-do-for-me” ethos.
CLINTON: She wants to preserve Obama’s executive actions – both those affecting children and those affecting their parents.
Green Party candidate Jill Stein says she could win the presidential election if she could just get more public exposure. In 2014, for example, there were 10.9 million undocumented immigrants in the country-a drop from 12 million in 2008. This time, though, he appears poised to lay out a more nuanced immigration policy – one that could roll back some of the unapologetically blunt proposals that helped carry him to victory in the GOP primaries.
TRUMP: He says the border isn’t adequately protected.
And then, of course, there’s the wall. “Once he started to fundraise dramatically, he was self-funding for a while, but once he started to fundraise dramatically, he immediately tripled the rent payment that his campaign donors were paying him personally”.
CLINTON: She’s called for securing US borders, but has also said the U.S.is already doing “a really good job”. Obama increased it to 20,199 in 2009, and the numbers have hovered around there ever since.
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Meanwhile, billions of taxpayer dollars have gone toward border fencing and technology to secure the border, another project that started under Bush.
