– MIRROR IMAGES? “Donald Trump’s campaign manager is contrasting the Republican presidential nominee’s immigration stance with that of former primary rival Marco Rubio. Don’t say we didn’t warn them”. Mr. Trump is a notoriously obnoxious loudmouth – the (New York) Daily News aptly calls him “the blowhard billionaire” – who often exhibits jaw-dropping ignorance of public policy.
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He was speaking in Austin, Texas, during a televised townhall-style interview with right-wing pundit Sean Hannity broadcast on Fox News on Wednesday night. He said there would be “no citizenship” and “no amnesty”, but at the same time he suggested that some otherwise law-abiding illegal immigrants could be allowed to stay if they pay back taxes. On Monday, Trump said his first focus would be to get rid of “the bad ones”.
“When I go through and I meet thousands and thousands of people on this subject, and I’ve had very strong people come up to me, really great, great people come up to me, and they’ve said, ‘Mr. It’s a very, very hard thing”, he said. In the early 1990s, two-thirds of Americans surveyed by Pew characterized immigrants as a burden on society, but now almost two-thirds see them as a benefit.
Trump is trying to head off the criticism – or perhaps have it both ways – by insisting he is still planning to build a wall between the USA and Mexico “100 percent”.
“I can criticize my guy and still support him”, Coulter said.
Donald Trump suggested Wednesday that he would allow exceptions to let some undocumented immigrants to stay in the U.S., vowing he wouldn’t grant them citizenship but telling Fox News, “there’s no amnesty, but we work with them”.
Trump marched to victory in the 2016 GOP primaries largely by belittling the immigration policies of former Florida governor Jeb Bush, Florida Sen.
“I would say it’s nice to see Donald Trump acknowledge that he was wrong and that his opponents were correct”, said Chris Schrimpf, a spokesman for Kasich.
If anything, regarding deportations, Trump said he would be like Obama, but “with a lot more energy”.
“Hillary Clinton is going to try to accuse this campaign, and the millions of decent Americans who support this campaign, of being racists”, Trump predicted.
King said any alternative policy would amount to amnesty. It took my family 13 years.
“I don’t know about softening the stance”.
That’s common sense, which explains why you don’t hear this sort of thing in proposals coming from Washington – a place where common sense goes to die. At rallies over the past week, the Republican presidential nominee cast Democratic policies as harmful to communities of color and in MS on Thursday he went so far as to label Clinton “a bigot”.
Trump – whose campaign says has never used the term “alt-right” and disavows “any groups or individuals associated with a message of hate” – tried to turn the tables on Clinton, suggesting that she was lashing out in order to distract from questions swirling around donations to The Clinton Foundation and her use of her private email servers. The first is that Ann Coulter put all of her eggs into the Donald Trump basket.
“So now we have the person 20 years been an upstanding person, the family is great, everyone is great, do we throw them out or do we work with them?”
Trump said he was moved by concerns from fans who opposed his previous calls for a “deportation force” to remove all of the estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants in the country.
“Ted was in favor of amnesty”, Trump told CNN shortly before the Iowa caucus earlier this year. The candidate, whom Fortune magazine reported has retweeted the Twitter postings from known white-supremacist accounts some 75 times, has yet to condemn them.
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“We will end illegal immigration and we will restore the constitutional rule of law”, Trump pledged.
