United States Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump announced over Twitter this Sunday that he plans to give a “major speech” about illegal immigration in Arizona this Wednesday.
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The announcement tweeted by the GOP presidential nominee Sunday came after his surrogates struggled on the weekly talk shows to answer a key question about the issue at the center of his campaign: Whether he still intends to deploy a “deportation force” to eject all 11 million or so people in the US illegally.
Governor Mike Pence, his running mate, would not affirm that their administration would expel the 11 million. And they wouldn’t say whether it was worrisome that such a consequential proposal remained unclear so close to the November 8 election. “I really am a unifier”, he said.
“The comic, originally posted on the site in April, shows Clinton wearing a shirt that says “No hot sauce no peace!” and holding a sign that says “(Expletive) the police”.
The very objective of surrogates is to speak for and back up their presidential nominee.
How magnanimous is Trump that he would recognize that “some” illegal immigrants “are good people”, instead of just painting every single one of them with the same broad brush? Any discussion of inconsistencies or potentially non-presidential tweeting, Pence and others suggested, reflected media focus on the wrong issue.
The announcement came a day after Trump declared he plans to crack down on immigrants who overstay their visas.
Trump is due back in Detroit on Saturday, when he is expected to continue his recent African-American outreach effort by attending an 11 a.m. church service at Great Faith Ministries International and sitting for an interview with Bishop Wayne T. Jackson. The latest poll, conducted by the Democratic firm Public Policy Polling, found Trump up 15 percentage points.
On Fox News Channel’s “Hannity” show, he discussed how hard it is to break up families.
Trump’s shift has already caused some backlash from his most staunch supporters, even his former opponents who now support him.
But by Thursday, he was ruling out any kind of legal status – “unless they leave the country and come back”, he told CNN.
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.
But Stephen Moore, a conservative economist who has worked with Trump to shape his tax and economic plans, says the vagueness on Trump’s economic policies was by design.
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