Donald Trump states that there isn’t any legal status for undocumented immigrants residing in the United States, taking back his earlier comments where he appeared to be open to the idea.
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The Republican presidential nominee has staked much of his campaign on his promise to build a giant border wall and to use a “deportation force” to forcibly remove 11 million undocumented immigrants.
King also allowed for the possibility that undocumented immigrants who haven’t committed crimes can be deported later than those who have.
“There certainly can be a softening because we’re not looking to hurt people, we want people – we have some great people in this country”, Trump said. “You can’t take 11 [million] at one time and just say, ‘Boom, you’re gone.’ But there’s no legalization”.
“I will be doing that I’d say over the next week or so”, Trump told reporters at Trump Tower in NY. In the meantime, the wobbles have incensed some of his ardent supporters and left others squirming.
And during the crowded Republican primary, Trump’s rivals said this exact thing would happen.
She suggested that some of the confusion around how Trump would execute his immigration plan stemmed from its scope, and the degree to which it represented a new phenomenon. That’s a sarcastic signal to his supporters who hear Trump as a truth-teller, even when he screws up the facts.
Despite the array of positions Trump has floated this week, he insisted that his position has not changed.
The volunteer who knocks on the most doors by the end of the month will to meet the Donald in person.
“You either have a country or you don’t”.
Is it time for the GOP to just accept that we need to secure the border, allow immigration enforcement to do their jobs, but, and here’s the sticky wicket for some, come to the realization that we can not simply deport 12 million people? For the time being, Trump is Schrodinger’s candidate, both the hardest-line Republican nominee on immigration in history and simultaneously a compassionate advocate for amnesty. “His views will change based on the feedback he gets from a crowd, or, you know, what he thinks he has to do”. “We’re going to have all the laws obeyed. And some, I assume, are good people”. Cantor lost his seat in a 2014 primary upset in part because of his support for immigration reform.
I don’t think it’s a softening.
“There still needs to be the deportation of the illegals of this country”, said Johnson, the chairman of the white nationalist American Freedom Party. A campaign spokeswoman said that was “to be determined”. In other words, to get him out.
“He did stumble a little bit on the issue this week”, Rollins said Thursday during a segment on Fox News. My first day in office, I am going to notify law enforcement authorities that all of the bad dudes, and we have a lot of them, that are here illegally, that are the heads of gangs and drug cartels and all sorts of people.
“Except change his immigration policies”, Coulter wrote in her new tome, “In Trump We Trust”.
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“It is this week what it has always been”, campaign manager Kellyanne Conway told CNN. This week, Trump and his aides have softened their rhetoric on immigration, signaling an openness to legalizing numerous nation’s 11 million illegal immigrants despite Trump’s long-standing vow to deport them all.
