“No citizenship. Let me go a step further – they’ll pay back taxes, they have to pay taxes, there’s no amnesty, as such, there’s no amnesty, but we work with them”, Trump in an interview with Fox aired on Wednesday. But recently he has suggested he could soften those positions.
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To qualify to remain in the United States, Trump said, illegal immigrants would have to pay back taxes. “You have to get them out”.
For Trump, whose rise to the Republican nomination was based in large part on his hardline immigration policies, the comments are the clearest sign yet that he is reconsidering his pledge to deport all of the estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants in the U.S., a key part of his campaign platform. He urged Hispanic voters to support him and bragged that in the past three weeks his “polls with African American folks and Spanish-speaking folks, the Hispanics, Latinos, have gone way up”, an assertion that is not backed up by any scientific public polls. This is no like great secret like I wonder who they are.
Trump launched his campaign in June 2015 with a harsh speech claiming Mexico was sending rapists and drug dealers to the U.S.
“I do think, yes, the immigration point is another data point that he was right, it’s another data point that leads people to understand Ted Cruz knew what he was talking about, he was making the right decision”.
“You’re living in poverty, you have no jobs, your schools are no good”, he said.
“Hispanics are exhausted of being used by these phoney politicians”, Trump roared above the rumbles of a thunderstorm audible inside. “I will fix it”. We will make your streets safe so when you walk down the street, you don’t get shot, which is happening now.
“These are immigration experts”, Conway said.
Trump summoned Farage on stage in the middle of his appearance, shook his hand and surrendered the microphone to him.
On the political side, Arizona has emerged as a battleground state in the election, despite having voted for the Democratic presidential nominee just once since 1948. According to Univision, at least one participant heard Trump say that mass deportations aren’t the answer and that a better idea might be to allow the undocumented to sort out their legal status on US soil through “embassies or consulates of their countries”. “In fact, I wouldn’t vote for Hillary Clinton if she paid me”, he added.
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It’s the latest attack on Clinton as Trump revs up his campaign. They signaled a further softening in his immigration position as he girds for a battle against Democrat Hillary Clinton in the November 8 election and faces pressure to bolster support among moderate voters and minority groups. But as Trump gained support, his opponents were forced to modulate their stances, as even those like Rubio who had supported a path to citizenship for people in the country illegally put the focus on border security first. “Working people and the great people of the United Kingdom took control of their destiny….”
