The announcement Sunday came after Trump said in a tweet late Friday afternoon that he’ll be in Phoenix on August 31.
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In statements to reporters, the real-estate magnate said Friday that he would unveil his plan to overhaul the US immigration system over the next two weeks.
Wednesday is around the corner and I won’t be surprised if Trump comes out to make a massive shift in his immigration policy.
But while two-thirds of respondents nationwide think illegal immigrants are more likely to commit serious crimes, 61 percent oppose building a wall along the U.S-Mexico border, which Trump has endorsed throughout his presidential campaign. He said, “On day one, I’m going to begin swiftly removing criminal illegal immigrants from this country”.
“So we’re hoping to see Donald Trump also move from that harsh position that he took with immigration”, Garza continued, adding that he is “running out of time” to do so.
Trump’s comments are the latest turn in a now-daily recalibration of his position on immigration, which Trump said he would crystallize in a speech next week. In an interview with CNN last week, his new campaign manager Kellyanne Conway said the question of whether he would create a deportation force was “to be determined”.
Trump Jr. contrasted his father’s policy formulation method to Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton.
“Somebody has told him, I guess, the latest people he’s consulting, how damaging his statements have been, how awful his deportation plan is, how offensive his views on immigrants have been from the very first day of his campaign”, Clinton said.
Trump is now either caught up in, or trying to exploit, that contradiction as he considers “softening” his controversial immigration stance. But he declined to flatly say whether he would round up other undocumented immigrants, stressing that once the initial deportations occur, “then we can talk”.
As the pro-Clinton PAC Correct the Record noted on Thursday morning, Trump spokesman Katrina Pierson continues to maintain that Trump “hasn’t changed his position on immigration”.
Experts also argued that the NY businessman should continue his message that law and order is declining in the United States, and that a Clinton presidency would only exacerbate this, as Clinton would be an extension of the current Obama administration.
But there’s no certainty that Trump will provide any more clarity on Wednesday – or that this plan will be the last one he offers.
“The truth of the matter is, Donald Trump is laying out in that tweet – in short form; it is, what, 140 characters – that we have a choice to make as a country”, Pence said. Trump has previously vowed to deport all of the nation’s approximately 11 million undocumented immigrants. “They know you’re going to do a good job once you’re there”.
Current law requires people who have been deported to wait 5, 10 or 20 years (depending on the circumstances) before applying for legal entry to the U.S. “I want to take that because I want to take into account what the people say'”. “I think the American people ought to ask it”.
Immigration is, after all, Trump’s signature issue.
“He hasn’t changed his position on immigration”, Pierson told CNN. His positive message of economic opportunity is working, and we see the national and battleground state polls all moving in the right direction.
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“He’s learned painfully, belatedly, that what stirs up a large part of the Republican primary electorate is not what wins general elections”, said John Rowe, a GOP donor and former CEO of Exelon, who’s planning to vote for libertarian Gary Johnson.
