Can Trump’s campaign survive such a shift in his signature issue? “That’s the one thing we know about a Trump presidency”. “These are families who contribute to the greatness of our country and that need a President who will fight to keep them together – not someone who will denigrate them and tear them apart”, Palmieri said. “Millions of people come to the United States but refuse to leave, without effect”, Trump declared on his website. In the absence of positive poll numbers, Trump has taken to suggesting that the election might be “rigged” against him.
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He floated the idea that those here illegally might be asked to pay “back taxes”. “So do we tell these people to get out or do we work with them and let them stay in some form?” “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”.
Arguably, no other issue has animated the GOP base more than immigration over the past decade since former Republican President George W. Bush, a former border governor, pushed for a similar bill in 2007. News reports say he even was booed and heckled on the “Hannity” set. One such supporter is the extreme right-wing firebrand, Anne Coulter.
HANNITY: We’re proud of her.
Trump seemed to join them as he misspoke while criticizing her.
“He hasn’t changed his position on immigration”, Pierson told CNN.
Now that’s exactly what he’s done.
At a town hall earlier this year, Hillary Clinton pledged to “provide more help so that more homeowners, Hispanic homeowners, African-American homeowners, those who want to have access to better credit, and better support”.
Ted Cruz has had a rocky relationship with Trump. And the #NeverTrump people were likewise righteously indignant.
Thursday on Fox News Channel’s “Your World”, a supporter of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, Pastor Mark Burns, declared Donald Trump to have “a lot of African-American supporters, adding that is was “more than the polls would ever show”.
As news spread of Trump’s proposal to grant some longtime undocumented US residents the status of second-class non-citizens (as opposed to siccing the “deportation force” on them), the mood at Coulter’s book launch turned dim. Ben Carson, at Trump Tower for a roundtable discussion on engaging young people of color in the campaign.
Among chants of “Lock Her Up!”, Trump didn’t miss his chance to swing at Clinton. “He is taking a hate movement mainstream”, she said, arguing Trump is “very much peddling bigotry and prejudice and paranoia”.
It could be trouble.
Trump distinguished his position from scores of other politicians who have proposed forgiving immigrations violations – sometimes on condition that the illegal immigrants pay fines and back taxes – and start on a path toward eventual citizenship.
“Hundred percent”, Mr. Trump replied. Miller is a top policy adviser to Trump who used to work for Sen.
Before the book was even published, Trump began to signal he might change his immigration plans. And what’s clear is that Hillary, like husband Bill, is a master at running out the clock on allegations of scurrilous behavior – and then claiming that any shocking new revelations are really just “old news”.
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Those points echo the main points of a Senate bipartisan comprehensive immigration reform bill that passed in 2013, but then stalled in the House, where a strong faction of conservatives said they would not support a measure that, in their view, rewarded law-breakers. He sure hasn’t done so yet.
