The comment added a new layer of confusion to the GOP presidential nominee’s position on one of his signature issues.
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In a CNN interview that aired Thursday evening, Anderson Cooper asked Trump: “So if they haven’t committed a crime is there going to be a path to legalization?” Trump specifically told O’Reilly that “I’m not talking about detention centers”, which would be a necessary part of any mass deportation effort. She said the private Clinton Foundation’s charitable programs would continue if she’s elected, even as Trump and other critics argue they would present a conflict of interest. “They want to obey the law”, Trump said.
Robert Kidder runs the New England Shirt Company in Fall River, Mass., and stars in a new Clinton ad airing in New Hampshire and other battleground states.
“What he supports is to make sure we enforce the law, we are respectful of those Americans who are looking for well-paying jobs and that we are fair and humane to those who live among us in this country”, Conway said.
The candidate began his presidential bid a year ago by saying that all illegal immigrants “have to go”, and that he would establish a nationwide, police-style, “deportation force” to round them up and send them back to their native countries.
Now, however, the Trump campaign is actually selling “Hillary Clinton for Prison 2017” buttons. “Illegal immigration” was ninth on the list, with 39 percent saying they anxious abut it ‘a great deal’. “That’s out on the distance, perhaps in a second Trump term, not in the first one”. During the 2013 Senate debate, Cruz had proposed a rider to the reform bill that would have eliminated its path to citizenship but left intact a path to legal status, so that illegal immigrants could remain in the country and work.
Trump made those comments at a time when he is trying to expand his outreach to African-Americans and Hispanics, who widely disapprove of his rhetoric, his denunciations of undocumented immigrants, and his more outlandish proposals – like a wall along the Mexican border that would be paid for by the Mexican government.
David Langlois, 53, of Lowell and his wife, Hoang, an immigrant herself, said they would like to see some amnesty for otherwise law-abiding illegal immigrants. But she is clearly correct when she says the lesson of his candidacy is that a lot of Americans are unhappy about immigration and refuse to allow the argument to be circumscribed on the grounds of political correctness.
Ann Coulter, the conservative author and TV personality, also appeared to be struggling to reconcile Trump’s fast-evolving position with where he stood during the primary campaign.
‘We hope they’re listening, ‘ she said of black Americans.
“I don’t want to break up families”, Green said.
Toward the end of his speech, Trump reiterated his plan to build a wall at the USA border with Mexico and said he would bring jobs back to the country from overseas. “And that’s what [Trump] should be saying, not going back and saying one thing in his speech and then using the insane Gang of Eight nonsense when he’s talking to [Fox News host Sean] Hannity”, she explained.
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The week after 9/11, George W. Bush went to a mosque and declared for everyone to hear that Muslims “love America just as much as I do”.
