Another top Trump supporter, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, similarly defended him on immigration on ABC’s “This Week”.
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‘Listen, I think that he’s been very clear on this.
“Now there’s going to be, you know, some decisions he’s going to have to make as president regarding those folks, and I think what he’s said let’s first get all of the bad actors out of the country”, he said.
“I think those questions are not going away”. However, after a campaign shakeup this month, Trump’s new campaign manager, Kellyanne Conway, said a mass deportation effort is “to be determined” after reports surfaced about Trump’s softer rhetoric with a meeting of his Hispanic advisors group.
He also suggested this week that undocumented immigrants could potentially return, telling CNN, “There is no path to legalization unless people leave the country”.
In an interview with Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway on CBS’s “Face the Nation” on Sunday, host John Dickerson pointed out that Trump has advocated deporting 11 million undocumented immigrants living in the US and he asked why Trump is shifting on that stance. “Mrs. Clinton has started the idea of calling Donald Trump those type of names, and the fact is that once you are the person, and Mrs. Clinton is the person, who injected this type of commentary into this race you can’t then sit back and start complaining about it or have some of your handmaidens in the media complain about it”.
To keep illegal migrants out, Trump has promised to build a wall on America’s southern border – to be paid for, he has declared at rally after campaign rally, by Mexico.
“We will have a mechanism for dealing with people in this country that – you heard the word ‘humanely.’ It will be fair and tough, but there will be no path to legalization and citizenship unless people leave the country”, said Pence, the governor of in, adding that some specifics will be provided soon at a later time. “So he obviously would work with law enforcement, immigration, the immigration agencies”, she said.
Pence, repeatedly asked whether a Trump administration would still deploy a “deportation force”, demurred but said Trump was only describing “a mechanism, not a policy” with the use of that term.
“She put some sort of a racist intention on those Americans”. But that’s fundamentally not the same thing as a person who is intolerant or unfair to people of color due to their race.
In another tweet on Sunday night, Trump said both he and Hillary Clinton, his Democratic rival for the November 8 election, should release detailed medical records.
“He has not gone to a black church, as Hillary Clinton has done”, she said.
Pence also attacked the Clinton Foundation, highlighting its acceptance of foreign donations – contributions that aren’t allowed as political campaign contributions.
“Dwyane Wade’s cousin was just shot and killed walking her baby in Chicago”.
Some Republicans, including pollster Whit Ayres, have said Trump’s outreach to African-American voters has more to do with bolstering his image among white voters who are uncomfortable with his campaign.
Trump’s first tweet about the shooting ended this way: “Just what I have been saying. That’s what Donald Trump has said, and that’s what he’ll change when he’s president of the United States”.
“We can continue with the leadership that has left us with unsafe streets in our cities, failing schools, no jobs”, he said.
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He continued, “We are going to get rid of the criminals and it’s going to happen within one hour after I take office, we start. OK”.
