Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump says he’s planning a speech Wednesday on illegal immigration.
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Some of Trump’s most prominent backers have said the GOP presidential nominee’s position remains consistent. The events have drawn large crowds of both supporters and protesters.
Trump is looking more closely at the question of what to do about millions of illegal immigrants living in the country.
“I am going to build a great border wall, institute nationwide e-verify, stop illegal immigrants from accessing welfare and entitlements and develop an exit-entry tracking system to ensure those who overstay their visas are quickly removed”, Trump warned.
While Trump has previously expressed support for deporting all illegal immigrants, he has acknowledged that it would be tough to throw out families that have been in the country a long time.
Trump told CNN’s Anderson Cooper on Thursday that there is “not a path to legalization” for undocumented immigrants under his plan and he described his stance as one that was “hardening” instead of one that was “softening” as he described only two days earlier.
Added Trump’s campaign manager, Kellyanne Conway: “The softening is more approach than policy”, adding that on immigration, Trump “wants to find a fair and humane way”.
Asked if Trump still sought a “deportation force”, which he called for previous year, Pence said Trump was speaking of “a mechanism, not a policy”.
This story has been corrected to reflect last week’s speech, which was canceled, was scheduled for Colorado, not Phoenix. He also told Hannity that there would be “no amnesty” for undocumented immigrants if he’s elected president, but suggested he would be willing to “work with” that community.
Pence also could not definitively say whether Trump was sticking with his vow to remove those living in the USA illegally, with the help of a deportation force.
Donald Trump sent mixed signals in the past week about his plan for the approximately 11 million illegal immigrants in the USA, indicating he might ease off from earlier proposals to deport them. “In this task, we will always err on the side of protecting the American people – we will use immigration law to prevent crimes, and will not wait until some innocent American has been harmed or killed before taking action”, he said. If anything, his brash nature has alienated him from some of his original supporters and from many undecided voters who were not originally comfortable with either Trump or Clinton.
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.
Trump should be trying to “convince people that it’s his set policy and that’s where he’s going to stay”, Dowd added.
Native-born children of immigrants, even those living illegally in the US, have been automatically considered American citizens since the adoption of the 14th Amendment in 1868.
“Every time a black citizen or any citizen loses his job because of an illegal immigrant, the rights of the American citizen are completely violated”, said Donald Trump.
“We’re going to secure the border”.
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“This year, the GOP is offering the voters a chance to break up the corrupt establishment and to create a new American future”, Trump said in his prepared speech – a marked shift in delivery from the famously off-the-cuff candidate. “You see someone who is engaging the American people, listening to the American people”.
