In his speech, Trump said he would seek to institute a tracking system to ensure illegal immigrants who overstay their visas are quickly removed, and would propose an e-verify system to prevent the illegal community from gaining access to welfare and other benefits.
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The announcement came late Sunday in a tweet by the GOP presidential nominee after days of wavering – and at least one canceled speech – on a question central to his campaign: Whether he would, as he said in November, use a “deportation force” to eject the estimated 11 million people in the US illegally.
During a six-minute exchange Sunday, CNN anchor Jake Tapper could not get a direct answer from Indiana Gov. Mike Pence over whether Donald Trump still supports a so-called “deportation force”. “Her policies are bigoted because she knows they’re not going to work”, Trump said.
In one case, the chairman of the Republican National Committee refused to speak for the GOP nominee at all.
He said the country’s GDP growth rate of 1.1 percent in the second quarter was not a good sign for the USA economy.
“What you hear Trump describe”, said Pence, “in his usual plain-spoken American way is a mechanism not a policy”.
The very objective of surrogates is to speak for and back up their presidential nominee.
The Trump campaign confirmed details of the NY businessman’s visit to Detroit in a statement released by Pastor Mark Burns, a prominent African-American television evangelist from SC who has become a surrogate for Trump. He deflected the question by saying the media is too focused on this issue. But whom Trump considers a criminal remains unclear.
Christie advocated similar positions himself when he was a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination. “We send our thoughts and our prayers to the family, and we also promise to fight for a much, much better tomorrow”. “Build that wall!” has been the rallying cry at pretty much every stop Trump has made around the country, nearly always punctuated by the candidate’s retort, “Oh, we’re gonna build it”.
The poll also found a deep partisan divide when it comes to resolving immigration-related issues. Maybe he will elaborate on his statement that Obama has gotten “tremendous numbers of people out of the country” and add that the president had deported 2.5 million by the end of previous year – up 23 percent from the number during George W. Bush’s administration.
Trump offered no specifics for how he would achieve that goal.
These details about Trump’s immigration plan follow grumbles from his supports that he was softening his immigration stance after he seemed to imply to Fox News’ Sean Hannity last week that he might let some undocumented immigrants remain, although without citizenship and amnesty (they’d still have to pay back taxes).
“What he has said is that people are not going to be eligible for legalization or citizenship unless they leave the country and get back in line”, Christie, Trump’s transition team chairman, told host Martha Raddatz.
King also allowed for the possibility that undocumented immigrants who haven’t committed crimes can be deported later than those who have. “It’s kind of disturbing”. “And this is not a simple question”, said Priebus, who’s had a hard relationship with Trump.
The speech has been rescheduled at least once. He blamed a “staff error” for the mixed messages. In other words, the party needs the likes of Paul Ryan – so scorned by Trump allies – who has invested the time in coming up with a serious anti-poverty policy agenda.
But it’s not clear what he’ll say, apparently even to his top supporters.
The wavering marks a sharp departure from past year, when Trump said in television interviews on NBC and MSNBC that illegal immigrants “have to go” and he vowed to create a “deportation force”.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump smiles while speaking at a campaign rally in Manchester, N.H., Thursday, Aug. 25, 2016.
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The businessman is not reneging on his plan to build a wall along the U.S. border with Mexico aimed at stopping migrants from entering the country illegally.
