Donald Trump has repeatedly said the 11.4 million undocumented immigrants in the USA “have to go”. “What people don’t realize, we have very, very strong laws”.
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The wavering marks a sharp departure from previous year, when Trump said in television interviews on NBC and MSNBC that illegal immigrants “have to go” and he vowed to create a “deportation force”.
“This is a moment of reckoning for every Republican dismayed that the Party of Lincoln has become the Party of Trump”, Clinton said, referring to Abraham Lincoln, the first Republican president, who issued the Emancipation Proclamation and championed the 13th Amendment to the US Constitution during the Civil War that led to the abolition of slavery in 1865.
He told Fox News on Monday he was not “flip-flopping” but wanted a fair plan. But we want something fair’.
Trump had said earlier this week that he would be open to a “softening” on immigration, and made a series of comments that indicated a path to legalization was likely as long as they paid taxes accumulated from their time living here illegally.
Helen Aguirre Ferré, director of Hispanic communications for the Republican National Committee, called the Hispanic outreach meeting a “game-changing” opportunity.
As prominent Republicans try to determine whether Donald Trump has changed his mind about mass deportations, Babs Buffing-ton is confident that the GOP presidential nominee hasn’t shifted at all – but it’s not a big deal if he has, as long as he builds a wall along the southern border.
At a campaign rally in Jackson, Mississippi, Wednesday night, Trump insisted any immigration policy pass three broad tests: It must improve jobs and wages for United States citizens; must improve citizens’ safety and security; and improve citizens’ quality of life.
Trump trashed the website on Monday.
“I don’t know what we’re hearing frankly right now out of the Trump camp, I’m not quite sure where he is on that”, Kasich told Anderson Cooper on CNN Friday. “No amnesty. You can return home, and if you would like to stand in line, the thing that everybody else is stand in line, wait your turn, go through the normal courses”.
Asked if he believed Clinton personally hated black people, Trump claimed: “Her policies are bigoted because she knows they’re not going to work”.
Trump’s new campaign manager, Kellyanne Conway, echoed Priebus’ optimism, contending that the candidate just had the best week of his campaign, “mostly because he’s able to be himself, the authentic Donald Trump”.
‘To be determined.’ Conway answered.
And a year ago, Trump told NBC’s Chuck Todd on Meet the Press that while he’d be open to keeping families together, “they have to go”. Trump portrayed his rivals, including Bush, as weak on immigration and said he was the only candidate who would be tough enough.
It’s the latest attack on Clinton as Trump revs up his campaign.
Trump was scheduled to hold a rally in nearby Fredericksburgh, Virginia later Saturday.
It’s a message that Donald Trump has picked up and put out in his own bombastic style. “I think people are going to be more interested in things that work. and I think it’s going to be an exciting time in America when that happens”.
Some GOP stalwarts are wondering whether Trump, in a kind of Nixon-goes-to-China way, might be uniquely positioned to bring GOP hard-liners to a more reasonable position when it comes to immigration reform. Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook is confident the campaign will find someone and says they’re “looking forward to the debates”. Trump asked the audience.
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He also met on Thursday morning with black and Hispanic Republicans at his NY headquarters. Unlike the fly-off-the-handle Trump, it often seems like Clinton doesn’t do anything on the campaign trail before it’s edited by a dozen speechwriters, vetted by 15 lawyers, and presented to at least six or seven focus groups.
