“I’m old enough to remember when certain conservative outlets would go into a frenzy over GOP’ers wanting “amnesty” for illegal immigrants”, wrote Oliver Darcy, the Business Insider politics editor who previously worked at Glenn Beck’s The Blaze. At rallies over the past week, the Republican presidential nominee cast Democratic policies as harmful to communities of color, and in MS on Wednesday he went so far as to label Clinton “a bigot”.
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Trump has also reversed his trademark immigration stance.
At a Thursday afternoon rally in Manchester, New Hampshire, Trump sought to project strength in his immigration positions, reiterating his commitment to building a wall on the U.S. -Mexico border. Given that he is a US citizen, why would he have an “inherent conflict of interest” over Trump’s proposal to build a wall? At a town hall meeting Tuesday hosted by Fox News in Austin, he said he is open to “softening” laws to help immigrants already living in the United States illegally but peacefully. On Monday, Trump said his first focus would be to get rid of “the bad ones”. “Let me go a step further – they’ll pay back-taxes, they have to pay taxes, there’s no amnesty, as such, there’s no amnesty, but we work with them”, Trump told Sean Hannity when asked if he would allow for exceptions to his long-held position.
Trump is painting his supporters as “decent American citizens” ahead of a speech by rival Hillary Clinton that will highlight his support among far-right groups, including many white nationalists and supremacists. He praised the Supreme Court’s move in June that halted Obama’s second wave of executive actions on that issue, actions Trump decried as “executive amnesty”. “All the things that Donald Trump railed against, he seems to be morphing into. I will fix it”. “I think that’s what he was suggesting today”. He recently disavowed a tax plan he released earlier in the race and is now hedging on whether his plan to ban all Muslim travel, a signature campaign proposal that is still on his website, remains his current position.
“By crossing the border illegally, they’re, by definition, criminals“.
“What he’s saying is that we need to find a mechanism that works, that is fair, that is legal and, in his words, humane and doesn’t quote hurt people”, said Conway, adding she hoped Trump supporters attracted to his hard-line stance would also agree.
“To Hillary Clinton, and to her donors and advisers, pushing her to spread smears and her lies about decent people, I have three words”.
In an interview set to air Thursday night on CNN, Trump makes this fact clear. He said “we have to be, we have no choice”. “I don’t think it’s a softening”.
This is virtually indistinguishable from the position taken by Bush and Ohio Gov. John Kasich in the GOP presidential primary.
The parents of a slain USA soldier of Pakistani decent, who criticized Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s anti-Muslim policy proposals, are scheduled to be honored by a civil rights group at an event in Dearborn Sept. 29.
Rep. Luis Gutiérrez, D-Illinois, one of the most passionate advocates of immigration reform, said Trump’s attempts to change his views will be futile. “He should have thought of this earlier”, Gutiérrez said.
A Reuters/Ipsos States of the Nation poll for the week beginning August 15 found Clinton beating Trump among Hispanic voters by 15 percentage points – 45 percent to 30 percent – and by 57 percentage points among black voters – 69 percent to 12 percent. He claims that the Democrats have taken minority voters’ support for granted.
With about 24 hours of public notice, the venue was barely half full, with movable bleachers four rows high packed mostly with a mix of older and middle-aged supporters, a lot of them white.
Trump tried to turn the tables on Clinton, suggesting she was trying to distract from questions swirling around donations to The Clinton Foundation and her use of her private email servers.
“So what’s Trump going to call his amnesty plan: The Gang of One proposal?” tweeted Mark Krikorian, a staunch opponent of illegal immigration. And it’s going to be a big wall.
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When pressed on whether he was changing his policy, Trump argues that he’s still going to enforce border laws.
