After Donald Trump spent a week waffling and “softening” over his immigration policy, I said, “The only thing left is for him to casually tell us that “build the wall” was meant kind of metaphorically all along, and most of it will end up being a “virtual wall” of drones and security cameras”.
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The announcement came late Sunday in a tweet by the Republican presidential nominee after days of wavering – and at least one canceled speech – on a question central to his campaign: Whether he would, as he said in November, use a “deportation force” to eject the estimated 11 million people in the US illegally.
Trump has said if he becomes president, he’d deport all 11 million undocumented immigrants in the US within two years.
“On Day One, I am going to begin swiftly removing criminal illegal immigrants from this country – including removing the hundreds of thousands of criminal illegal immigrants that have been released into U.S. communities under the Obama-Clinton administration”, Trump told supporters in Des Moines, Iowa.
During primaries, the billionaire businessman avowed that he would knock every single house in the country to identify illegal immigrants and put them out of the country.
But recently, Mr Trump has distanced himself from previous vows to mount a “deportation force” to remove millions.
“Actually, he’s not, John”, Conway said. Trump surely chafes at the thought that people believe he’s now copying “low energy” Jeb Bush on the signature issue of his campaign. While it’s still up in the air as to who the moderator will be-a Morning Consult survey released Monday found CNN’s Anderson Cooper to be the top choice-the Commission on Presidential Debates the network host, said it will not announce the official selection until after Labor Day.
No surprise then that there was an immediate backlash from his disciples when Trump made a distinction between illegal immigrants who are violent criminals and those who are not “the bad ones”.
Mexico has awakened to the news that President Enrique Pena Nieto is going to meet with Republican candidate Donald Trump Wednesday, and many Mexicans don’t like it.
Several Hispanic supporters who met with the candidate last weekend also suggested he was open to shifting his stance on immigration reform, Fortune previously reported.
“I don’t know who he’s getting it from, but the idea that his base is not going to mind is nonsense”.
Christie said the media “focus on process. instead of the message”.
Trump’s new campaign manager, Kellyanne Conway, has said she’s pushing her boss to get more specific.
After the wall was funded, Trump wrote, transfer payments could continue “to flow into their country year after year”.
But lately, Trump has been exploring the issue’s complexities. It is the main factor in a Moody’s analysis of how many jobs would be created under either Hillary Clinton or Trump. After confirming the event last week, his campaign canceled the event just 48 hours later.
Doctor says he rushed Trump’s bill of health: The doctor who produced Trump’s only public medical record said he only spent five minutes writing it, reports CNN.
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“If we don’t stop [illegal immigration], we don’t have a country”, he told a crowd of thousands inside an airport hangar at Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport. 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.
