Including, in all likelihood, some of his supporters.
Advertisement
“My only son was murdered by an illegal alien”, one woman said. “I don’t know anything about Jeb Bush”, said Trump.
Speaking at a rally in Dimondale, Mich., Aug. 19, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump accused Democrat Hillary Clinton of exploiting African American voters. “Donald Trump will change that”.
John Weaver, former senior strategist for the presidential campaign of OH governor John Kasich, told the Guardian’s Ben Jacobs that Trump’s newfound openness to legal status for undocumented immigrants reads highly familiar – despite Trump decrying the position as tantamount to amnesty during the Republican presidential primaries.
“I can fix the inner cities”, Trump said. “I had a great meeting with great people, great Hispanic leaders, and there could certainly be a softening because we’re not looking to hurt people”.
Extreme vetting would be the modus operandi, Trump claimed, when it came to the types of people Trump would let into the country.
O’Reilly asked Trump, “Are you really rethinking your mass deportation strategy” to which he answered, “I just want to follow the law, the existing laws are very strong”.
The position follows a main theme in Clinton’s campaign-appealing to the Latino community with a compassionate and inclusive message of protection, in contrast to Trump’s message. He presented a detailed deportation plan for 11 million immigrants in the US illegally, complete with estimated timeframes and references to a “deportation force”.
One of the things people constantly miss about Trump is that he takes very strong positions about things like law enforcement and global deals because he understands the need to go into any situation in a position of strength.
“You have somebody that has been in the country for 20 years”, Trump said hypothetically. Deporting 11 million people, if it could be done, would be inhumane.
Prior to his campaign and the RNC striking a fundraising deal in May, 75 percent of the $59 million spent by Trump’s campaign was self-funded, meaning any rent paid would be coming out of his own pocket. The resources do not exist to do so.
“We have a law”. A person who is breaking the law shouldn’t be told to just hide out and try to keep getting away with it.
“You have a lot of people being deported”.
That’s how you end up with widespread lawlessness. You also seem to be indicating there might be something other than they have to go back.
Kellyanne Conway said that Trump “is not for amnesty”. “Trump is much more like an average American than he is like a politician”, said Beck, whose group still downgraded Trump in its voter guide this week. Because that undermines the law.
Yet it was now unclear to what length Trump would go to execute those deportations.
The crowd also heard from the union that represents some Border Patrol agents who endorsed Trump.
If there’s one illegal immigration prescription for which Trump has unwaveringly stood by, it’s his pledge to build a wall on the southern border. I think that’s where the majority of the American people is and that three-step process I think is the only way forward on immigration.
“I don’t know what to believe about a guy who doesn’t believe in things”.
Advertisement
Based on this, Trump’s immigration position is now what people in the room with him cheer for, which isn’t exactly reassuring to, well, anyone. But no, they will not all be gone by the time Trump leaves office.
