Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump ruled out a pathway to legal status for undocumented immigrants in the US.
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Pew’s findings were released amid suggestions by Trump that he might soften his previously stated plan to deport all immigrants here illegally, an idea he backed in debates by invoking “Operation Wetback”, of the Eisenhower administration.
“I don’t think the message is changing at all”.
It has been 30 years since the country embarked on an immigration overhaul, and the ambivalence of voters like Green is one reason why. A third believe immigrants are not as honest or hardworking as US citizens and 35 percent say they fill jobs Americans would like to have, Pew found.
“He’s learned painfully, belatedly, that what stirs up a large part of the Republican primary electorate is not what wins general elections”, said John Rowe, a GOP donor and former CEO of Exelon, who’s planning to vote for libertarian Gary Johnson. I felt very comfortable with the people that I had.
But we want to come up with something fair, ” Trump said.
Asked the next day how he would round up 11 million people, Trump told MSNBC, “You are going to have a deportation force, and you are going to do it humanely”. Polls show minorities overwhelmingly favoring Clinton.
“No citizenship”, he told Fox News’ Sean Hannity during a taped town hall event.
She added, “I think they made a grievous error by not having (Clinton) go over to the Middle East and meet with the troops or make major policy speeches”. And they’ve said, ‘Mr. In his announcement speech, he infuriated Latinos with his comments that Mexican immigrants entering the USA illegally were “rapists” bringing in “drugs” and and that “some”, he assumed, “were good people”. But nearly the same share, 45 percent, said that both law enforcement and a path to citizenship should be given equal priority. Trump’s proposed wall is opposed by 61 percent of the country but backed by 78 percent of his supporters.
Conway had said Sunday that Trump “doesn’t hurl personal insults”. In a letter to Obama, they called for Central American migrants to be considered refugees. Lopez noted that happened as large numbers of immigrants settled in the USA and had children. Trump has registered as low as 1 percent or 2 percent among black voters in national polls – and his remarks last week probably cost him support.
Immigration has created complications for both parties.
But the Democrat’s contradictions are dwarfed by those in the GOP. During the primary, Trump advocated unequivocally for deporting undocumented immigrants, and the shifts he has hinted at would be a highly-scrutinized flip on a trademark issue. The changes in Trump’s rhetoric on immigration are cosmetic, and aimed at making him look more “humane” among some anxious white Anglo voters. One man said he wanted them to pay taxes, work and learn English.
Nevertheless, for more than a decade, Congress has failed to reach agreement on legislation that takes such an approach. “I don’t support that”. He went after MSNBC’s “Morning Joe”, tweeting that the show is “unwatchable!” and said its host, Mika Brzezinski, “is off the wall, a neurotic and not very bright mess!”
He said of his Democratic opponent, “Hillary Clinton is a bigot who sees people of color only as votes, not as human beings worthy of a better future”. “People love him in Texas”.
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The way to cut through this morass is with a workable, politically sustainable enforcement-first policy of the sort that Mark Krikorian of the Center for Immigration Studies has set out in our pages repeatedly. “Except change his immigration policies”. “But as I heard the interview with Anderson Cooper that came on a little bit ago, he said there wouldn’t be a legalization”.
