The Indiana governor, Conway and other surrogates said the main tenets of Trump’s immigration plan still will include building a wall along the southern USA border and making Mexico pay for it, no path to legalization or citizenship for people here illegally and stronger border enforcement.
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Conway has signaled that Trump might soften his proposal to “round up” the approximate 11 million immigrants in the USA illegally with a “deportation force”. He first floated the prospect of a “deportation force” to boot all undocumented immigrants from the country – no matter how long they’d been in the United States – during an interview in November 2015, and later defended it in a December primary debate.
So has he scrapped the idea of removing all undocumented immigrants from the country?
Donald Trump says rival Hillary Clinton will push regulations and high taxes that will hurt family farmers.
Trump warned a crowd in Iowa on Saturday that Clinton “wants to shut down family farms” and implement anti-agriculture policies.
Trump’s running mate, Mike Pence, tried to parse the Republican nominee’s shifts as evidence that he is working through the issue during an interview Sunday with Jake Tapper on CNN’s “State of the Union”. Asked if Mr Trump still sought a “deportation force”, which he called for a year ago, Mr Pence said Mr Trump was speaking of “a mechanism, not a policy”. “I mean, you’re going to hear more detail in next two weeks that lays out all the policies”, Pence said.
“A vote for Trump is a voice for the rule of law, a vote for Clinton is a voice for open borders”, he said.
According to him, only a new economic policy and a change in leadership will resolve the problems afflicting black neighborhoods and the expulsion of undocumented migrants will reduce unemployment.
“I’ve had very strong people come up to me, really great, great people come up to me, and they’ve said, ‘Mr”.
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“Well, I think the whole question of anchor babies, as it’s known, the whole question of citizenship, of natural-born Americans is a subject for the future”, he said. Pence also did not answer whether the campaign believes, as Trump has said, that children born to people who are in the US illegally are not USA citizens. “We look at our whole immigration system and see whether that works and makes sense”.
