Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is reaffirming that people in the USA illegally can not receive legal status, despite recently suggesting he might be softening his stance on immigration.
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He says, “Not going to happen with me folks”.
For example, while Trump has slammed the Common Core education standards and touts the benefits of local control of education, he has no formal, detailed plans for improving public schools. It’s the fact that he’s alienating his own base by walking back his earlier promises on immigration, the stances and tough talk that endeared him to Republicans and conservatives in the first place. “Stop illegal immigration. Watch Wednesday!”
“I want some compassion”. “We will find them, we will get them out”.
After meeting with GOP Latinos Aug. 20 at his home, some GOP Hispanics thought he might offer legalization to the 11 million.
Trump’s running mate told Fox News Wednesday that Trump immediately responded to an invitation by Mexico’s President Enrique Peña Nieto to meet.
The New York billionaire is expected to confirm that he is abandoning some of the more extreme pledges he made during the primary election season, notably to create a “deportation force” to evict the roughly 11 million people believed to be in the United States illegally.
“There certainly can be a softening because we’re not looking to hurt people”, Trump reportedly said on August 23 during a town hall with Fox News in Austin, Texas.
“Right out of the gate, we are going to lower taxes across the board”, he said.
“It’s confusing. It’s very confusing and this is not the time to be confusing if you are trying to win the Hispanic vote. It was wonderful. I was very impressed by him”.
Hillary Clinton is blasting Donald Trump for referring to the American military as “a disaster”.
The Democratic presidential nominee adds, “That is not how it works”.
In 2012, Republican nominee Mitt Romney infamously suggested he would make it so hard for people living in the country illegally to get and keep a job that they would “self-deport”. Republicans have tried repeatedly to repeal the program and a court battle over it is ongoing.
Trump said he would also establish a “deportation task force” to identify criminals subject to deportation, would triple the number of federal deportation officers, and increase the number of border patrol stations.
The administration stresses that a growing proportion of those who are deported have criminal records: 59 percent last year, up from 31 percent in fiscal year 2008. Central to that mystery: What is a “crime” for an undocumented immigrant?
The announcement Sunday came after Trump said in a tweet late Friday afternoon that he’ll be in Phoenix on Wednesday. “They are incredible people, awesome people”.
“He’s like a stand-up comedian working out material on the road”, Beck said. It’s why Republican operatives developed the concept of a “compassionate conservative”. “But he is talking about being fair and humane, but also being fair to the American workers competing for jobs”.
“He wasn t softening on anything”, Donald Trump Jr told CNN when asked about how his father recently appeared to survey a Texas campaign crowd over what he should do about the nation s roughly 11 million undocumented immigrants.
But it is simply inconceivable that this superficial change in tone could succeed in winning over Latinos – both newly arrived immigrants and those who were born in this country and have been here for at least half a century – who have felt the sting of this election season’s normalization of bigotry and nativism. “The brand is set in stone. He is a victor, and he can give as good as he gets”, said Pence in one of the many lines that brought the crowd to its feet.
Trump has been pilloried in Mexico since he launched his White House campaign past year. Polls there show a tight race between Trump and Clinton.
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Donald Trump and his aides used to say that voters didn’t care about the nitty-gritty of policy details.
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