But even more noticeable than the personnel changes – and perhaps, in part because of the personnel changes – Trump has made some changes to his policy presentation as well.
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Trump, however, was direct on Wednesday. Trump’s message to immigrant families is clear: “everyone must go”. As with any law enforcement activity, we will set priorities.
He said the only way undocumented foreigners could live in the United States legally if he is elected on November 8 would be to leave the country and apply for re-entry.
Pena Nieto has been widely criticized for inviting and meeting with Trump, as well as for not confronting him more directly about comments calling immigrants from Mexico criminals, drug-runners and “rapists”, and the candidate’s vows to build a border wall and force Mexico to pay for it.
Giuliani argued Sunday that the Arizona speech was stylistically harsh but not a departure from Trump’s plans, although he recently had suggested that voters would see a “softening”. In 2008, then-US Senator Barack Obama delivered a speech in Berlin amid the presidential race, and Mitt Romney toured Europe in 2012. “So anyone who thinks that he won’t get to you eventually is mistaken”, said Latino Action Network President Chris Estevez. He cleverly used Donald’s own words against him!
“And we don’t know where we’ll be”.
This was the Trump we all knew, the Trump who questions the judicial independence of an American-born judge because of his Mexican heritage, who fights with Mexican American journalists, and who asserts that Mexico is “killing us”. “All he is really going to do is make it less likely for young people to succeed because they are not going to have adult role models”. “That’s the whole point here, that we’ve actually never tried this”. It would focus on removing illegal aliens that are most risky. Preceded at the lectern by Joe Arpaio, the Arizona sheriff and anti-immigration hard-liner, Trump launched into a lament for the “countless Americans” who are “victims of violence” by illegal immigrants who are “dangerous, dangerous, dangerous criminals“. “That is not the kind of America he wants”. Trump’s meeting in Mexico City with President Enrique Peña Nieto was not a serious attempt at diplomacy, and his address did not lay out a serious proposal for immigration reform.
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump attends a church service in Detroit, Michigan, September 3.
But the aftermath of the meeting turned sour as Mr Pena Nieto contradicted the Republican’s claim that they had not discussed paying for the wall, saying he had flatly told Mr Trump that Mexico “would not pay for the wall”.
After being pressed multiple times, Trump’s running mate said the GOP nominee is focused on the “more than 300 million people who are citizens of this country and are here legally in this country and driving policies in immigration that will work for them, work for the future of our nation”.
ABC’s “This Week with George Stephanopoulos” co-anchor Martha Raddatz asked Conway whether the Mexican president was “lying” about the wall discussion. “I don’t think Mexico is going to write a check out and say here, pay for the wall”.
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It’s been hard to pin down Trump’s view on undocumented immigrants in recent months, with some election watchers speculating that the candidate is trying to moderate his stance in order to appeal to more voters.
