They won’t be allowed to pursue citizenship, he said in a Fox News town hall Wednesday night, and they’ll have to pay taxes. She told Rachel Maddow on MSNBC on Wednesday Trump would not have a “touch back” policy. He said there would be “no citizenship” and “no amnesty”, but at the same time he suggested that some otherwise law-abiding illegal immigrants could be allowed to stay if they pay back taxes.
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Trump’s Democratic rival Hillary Clinton served as secretary of state during President Barack Obama’s first term in office. “We knew it during the primary, and now it is apparent he has duped his most loyal supporters on the issue they care about most, immigration”, Amanda Carpenter, the former communications director for Sen.
“People will leave, people will leave, they’re going to go back where they came from”. “So but we’re going to follow the laws of this country. Chuck, we either have a country, or we don’t have a country”.
“You have a lot of people being deported. When they come back in, if they come back in, then they can start paying taxes”, he said.
“They’ve been very disrespectful, as far as I’m concerned, to the African-American population in this country”, Trump said. But just the fact that the candidate has to utter them is telling, he said. Trump, I love you, but to take a person who’s been here for 15 or 20 years and throw them and their family out, it’s so tough, Mr. Trump, ‘ I have it all the time! “I want to focus on the American families who’ve been permanently separated from their children because of the sanctuary cities and open borders that Hillary Clinton supports”.
“It’s okay to soften some things, but it’s not okay to let people violate the law and be rewarded for it”, he said.
Jeb Bush said Donald Trump looks like “a typical politician” as the nominee has shifted on immigration and appears to hold views similar to Bush’s, despite attacking Bush as soft on the issue.
Since he launched his campaign, Trump has enraged many Latinos and other immigrants by denouncing Mexico as a country that dumps rapists and drug dealers on the US, and by vowing to take draconian steps to go after undocumented immigrants.
“Everything Trump promises comes with an expiration date”. A Pew Research Center poll finds six-in-10 Americans oppose Trump’s plan to build a wall on southern border with Mexico. Trump’s new rhetoric doesn’t just sound like Bush’s; the path to legalization was also part of John Kasich’s platform and something Marco Rubio tried to get passed in the Senate.
At the same event with Hannity, Trump, who over the weekend met with Hispanic advisers, said about his immigration policies: “There could certainly be a softening because we’re not looking to hurt people”. That effort offered a way to bring millions “out of the shadows” without amnesty and would have required illegal immigrants to pay a fine and take other steps to gain legal status.
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GOP Rep. Steve King of Iowa, a leading immigration hardliner, said in an interview that “I have some concerns at this point” over Trump’s stances.
