Clinton leads Trump by 7 points in the run-up to the 2016 USA presidential race.
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Still, adding to the uncertainty that has clouded his immigration plan in recent days, Trump did not give a definitive answer about what he would do with most of the 11 million undocumented people who are not criminals, leaving open the possibility they would have to continue to hide in the shadows.
Instead of running a “typical general election” model to appeal to a larger electorate, Gonzales says, Trump appeared to have chosen the “dance with the ones who brung you strategy”, deepening his appeal among immigration-centred Republicans.
“Anyone who is in the United States illegally is subject to deportation”.
“The truth is, our immigration system is worse than anyone realizes”, Trump said, “But the facts aren’t known because the media won’t report on them, the politicians won’t talk about them, and the special interests spend a lot of money trying to cover them up”.
But the big question entering Wednesday night’s speech was whether he’d stand by his calls for mass deportations – including families that hadn’t violated additional laws. He rejected any notion of “amnesty” for undocumented immigrants, unequivocally denouncing the idea that anyone can attain USA citizenship by entering the country without authorization.
Insist that the “at least 23 countries” who now refuse to take back citizens deported from the United States, begin accepting them. You can not obtain legal status or become a citizen of the USA by illegally entering our country. “And Mexico will pay for the wall”. Silent at that moment, Pena Nieto later tweeted, “I made it clear that Mexico will not pay for the wall”.
Trump’s long-awaited speech in Arizona came after he met earlier in the day with Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto – and more than a week after he suggested he first suggested he might revise his immigration stance.
We had wondered how Donald Trump would get Mexico to pay for the wall along the border to keep out illegal immigrants.
Trump told the rowdy Arizona crowd that he respects the Mexican president. But he wasn’t backing away from the proposal that has animated his campaign.
“I was expecting at least some tentative effort to present a moderate tone at least on some issues – he wasn’t going to reverse himself with the wall – as a way of seeming presidential and reaching out to the moderate suburban voters that he seems to be alienating”, DeSipio said. “Maybe they’ll be able to deport her”, he proclaimed during his speech. Mexicans already felt Pena Nieto’s invitation had legitimized an undeserving and unfit Trump.
He ripped into the “Obama/Clinton” immigration failures, even though Hillary Clinton, in her former role as Secretary of State, did not set immigration policy.
“He said, ‘Yes, ‘ and he thought we would be very pleased on Wednesday”, said Suarez.
“I’ll ask the audience”, Trump announced.
To do so, he would create a “deportation task force” that would help identify such individuals.
Abolish “catch and release” programs for undocumented immigrants and insist that they return to their home countries. And since NAFTA’s implementation in 1994, Mexico has grown more slowly than many of its Latin American counterparts._TRUMP: “We didn’t discuss that”.
“What we saw was a respectful attitude and discourse from Donald Trump”, presidential spokesman Eduardo Sanchez had said earlier, arguing that progress was made on the issue of trade after prior threats by Trump to tear up the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).
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In his speech, the billionaire repeatedly called attention to the crimes of some undocumented immigrants and drew on stories of Americans killed by undocumented immigrants, bringing parents of some of those victims on stage to share their graphic and heart-wrenching tales of loss. And he cast immigrants as a primary reason workers – including African-Americans and Latinos – have struggled to find jobs.
