Donald Trump has floated a softer stance on immigration, proposing to “work with” people who are in the USA illegally in a shift away from his plan for a deportation force to remove more than 11 million immigrants.
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At a town hall-style event that aired this week on FOX News’ “Hannity” show, Trump wavered on his earlier hardline stance on immigration, saying that “the bad ones, the gang members” would be deported immediately but that he would be willing to “work with” individuals who entered the country illegally but had been upstanding citizens for many years. 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.
SEE MORE: Could Republicans Still Dump Trump? “When they come back in, if they come back in, then they can start paying taxes but there is no path to legalization unless they leave the country and come back”. “I’ll ask the audience”, Trump says.
During the primary, Bush repeatedly argued that Trump’s deportation idea and proposal to build a wall along the border were “unrealistic” and wouldn’t come to pass. Jeb Bush stated in November 2015, “What we need to do is allow people to earn legal status where they pay a fine, where they work, where they don’t commit crimes, where they learn English, and over an extended period of time, they earn legal status”.
No one can change his hateful rhetoric or unsafe policies to send a deportation force into American communities, rescind DACA and DAPA, end birthright citizenship, and even ban remittances to families in Mexico in order to help build his giant wall.
Despite the array of positions Trump has floated this week, he insisted that his position has not changed. We’re going to do that vigorously. “It’s a very, very hard thing”. “This is all a game”, Jeb Bush said.
More than 76 percent of those surveyed said undocumented immigrants are as hard-working and honest as US citizens, according to a poll conducted by the Pew Research Center. “And then we’re going to see what happens”, he said.
“For me I couldn’t do that”.
“I don’t know what to believe about a guy who doesn’t believe in things”. Shifting my views because it’s political to do it?
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“You have somebody that has been in the country for 20 years”, Trump said hypothetically. “I find it abhorrent”.
