“But when I go through and I meet thousands and thousands of people on this subject.they’ve said, Mr. Trump, I love you, but to take a person that has been here for 15 or 20 years and throw them and the family out, it’s so tough, Mr. Trump”. I think it’s a very important thing.
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Trump’s latest comments came as Nigel Farage, an anti-immigration politician who was part of Britain’s successful campaign to leave the European Union, planned to address Trump’s rally in Jackson, Mississippi, on Wednesday night. He had scheduled a speech on immigration in Colorado on Thursday but cancelled it.
“No citizenship”, Trump said.
Trump has repeatedly declared that if elected, he would deport the 11 million people living in the US illegally.
“Hillary Clinton wants a totally open border so people can just pour in”, Trump said. Two officials with knowledge of the Trump campaign’s plans confirmed the topic was immigration to the AP.
Speculation that Trump might soften his stance on immigration began to emerge after he held a closed door meeting this past Saturday with members of his National Hispanic Advisory Council, which the Republican National Committee described as “a diverse group of national Hispanic leaders who are advising the campaign and sharing Mr. Trump’s proposals with the Hispanic community”. Marco Rubio campaigned in November in South Carolina: “We will enforce our immigration laws”.
“I could not possibly tell you how to vote in this election”, he said.
“This is basically Jeb’s position”, former Jeb Bush spokesman Tim Miller said Wednesday. On Sunday, Clinton’s campaign chairman John Podesta said they believe Trump’s “immigration plan remains the same as it’s always been: tear apart families and deport 16 million people from the United States”. You pay taxes. You don’t receive federal government assistance. That effort offered a way to bring millions “out of the shadows” without amnesty and would have required illegal immigrants to pay a fine and take other steps to gain legal status.
The bipartisan “Gang of Eight” bill that passed the Senate in 2013 before dying in the House included such a provision in addition to requirements that qualifying immigrants pass a criminal background check, learn English, and live in the country on a trial basis for 10 years before becoming a permanent resident and eventual citizen. “That, to me, is the most practical way of dealing with this problem”.
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Donald Trump on Wednesday signaled a significant reversal on immigration, the signature issue that propelled him to the Republican presidential nomination.
