Donald Trump indicated there could be a “softening” of his controversial immigration policies during a Fox News town hall moderated by Sean Hannity that taped earlier tonight. But even Trump acknowledged this week there “could certainly be a softening, because we’re not looking to hurt people”. “We have some great, great people in this country”.
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“I don’t know if he wants to do it, but boy, will he do well”, Trump says of Perry.
Trump said that on his first day in office, he would authorize law enforcement to actively deport “bad dudes”, such as those who have committed crimes, which he said numbered “probably millions”.
OBAMA: Obama’s position, like Trump’s recent comments, is rooted in the notion that limited law enforcement resources should be focused on law-breaking immigrants, not kids and families.
“I’ve had very strong people come up to me – really great, great people come up to me – and they’ve said, ‘Mr”.
“We have to take care of Americans first”.
Yet now it’s Trump talking about allowing immigrants in the country illegally a way to stay here.
Over the weekend, his new campaign manager, Kellyanne Conway, said on CNN that Trump’s long-promised “deportation force” was “to be determined”.
When I asked a young, college-aged woman from Arlington, Texas, this question – whether she is more anti-Hillary than pro-Trump – she denied it fervently.
Under pressure to release his tax returns, Donald Trump has said he won’t make them public until the completion of an audit of his returns since 2009. Her friend, though, said “I wasn’t too sure about Trump before today”.
“One of the things that’s very unfair with leaving people (in the U.S.) is that you have years and years of people waiting on line. He’s still going to get rid of the murderers and rapists and those wreaking havoc in our country”, she said.
If this week’s string of vague and contradictory statements by Trump and his team is revealing anything, it’s that his immigration policy is still evolving. But that speech has been postponed, likely until next week.
“This election we’ll decide whether we have a border”, Trump said, vowing again to build a wall on the southern border. Trump defeated 16 rivals for the Republican presidential nomination and one factor that helped him was being the most hardline candidate on immigration. That proposal excited many of his core supporters, but alienated Hispanic voters who could be pivotal in key states.
A move by Trump to modify his stance on immigration could help him attract more support among moderate voters in his uphill drive to win the November 8 election.
At a campaign rally in Jackson, Mississippi, Wednesday night, Trump insisted any immigration policy pass three broad tests: It must improve jobs and wages for United States citizens; must improve citizens’ safety and security; and improve citizens’ quality of life.
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And aides said Tuesday that in the coming weeks Trump was planning trips to urban areas to conduct campaign stops he has largely avoided to this point, including stops at charter schools, small businesses and churches in black and Latino communities.
