At rallies over the last week, the Republican presidential nominee has tried to paint Democratic policies as harmful to minority communities and urged them to give him a chance, despite his past inflammatory rhetoric. And they didn’t say it in this interview. “And who’s going to pay for the wall?” Having promised on many occasions to round up more than 12 million undocumented immigrants and send them back home with children and all, Trump is now backing off, or in the campaign’s word: “Softening”.
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Republican presidential nominee is softening his stance on immigration and anti-immigrant conservatives aren’t happy.
As Slate’s Jim Newell pointed out on Tuesday, Donald Trump doesn’t have an immigration policy, but instead only adverbs and adjectives.
“You have to get ’em out”, Trump said flatly.
Trump’s running mate, Mike Pence, indicated to CBS that the details of Trump’s proposed deportation force were a work in progress.
“Starting with the unsafe folks is smart”, he added.
‘I will appoint prosecutors who will go into the most unsafe communities in America and work to liberate our citizens from violence and fear.
Trump’s shifting signals come months after he clinched the GOP nomination in large part by going further than any of his rivals on immigration, declaring that all undocumented immigrants “have to go” and that he would create a “deportation force” to carry out the task.
The Trump campaign’s potential plans to visit inner cities were first reported Tuesday by The Washington Post.
Sean Hannity, Fox News anchor, hosted a town hall event on immigration Tuesday, during which Trump was asked if he would change USA law in order to accommodate illegal immigrants who were obeying laws and contributing to society.
Trump made the statements in response to a question about whether he would consider letting law-abiding immigrants who entered the country illegally remain here. “You have to get them out”. But when I go through and I meet thousands and thousands of people on this subject, and I’ve had very strong people come up to me, really great, great people come up to me, and they’ve said, “Mr. Trump, I love you, but to take a person who’s been here for 15 or 20 years and throw them and their family out, it’s so tough, Mr. Trump”, I have it all the time.
Many African-American leaders and voters have dismissed Trump’s message – delivered to predominantly white rally audiences – as condescending and intended more to reassure undecided white voters that he’s not racist, than to actually help minority communities.
“Did he use the word “soften”?” Sen. Jeff Sessions of Alabama, a border hawk, and Stephen Miller, a Trump adviser and former Sessions staffer. This amounts to another important concession: That this act of prioritization is not tantamount to a refusal to enforce the law – contradicting a claim Trump and Republicans have been making for years – and is consistent with the enforcement of our immigration laws. We have existing laws that allow you to do that.
“The weakest person on this stage by far on illegal immigration, is Jeb Bush”, Trump hit back. By crossing the border illegally, they’re by definition criminals.
“I could not possibly tell you how to vote in this election”, he said.
Whenever that speech happens – if it happens at all – Ann Coulter will surely be watching. “Donald Trump performs consistently better in online polling, where a human being is not talking to another human being about what he or she may do in the election”, Conway said. “I think this is a mistake”. It sounds like it’s coming from consultants. “He should have thought of this earlier”, Gutiérrez said. But as Trump gained support, his opponents were forced to modulate their stances, as even those like Rubio who had supported a path to citizenship for people in the country illegally put the focus on border security first. It might well attract a few more white votes. It didn’t fit with what he was saying, but he went with it anyway.
“Now, everybody agrees we get the bad ones out”, Trump said. We’re definitely getting a wall. As far as everybody else, we’re going to go through the process.
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Coulter’s current tour to promote her book, “In Trump We Trust: E Pluribus Awesome!” could be threatened by the candidate’s openness to changing a pivotal part of his campaign. “Mexico is going to pay for it”.
