His supporters thrilled to this message.
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Trump Jr.’s retweet prompted Richard Spencer, a leader of the alt-right movement, to tweet “Wow”.
But Trump has discovered that on immigration the loudest voices are driving the debate, and that’s the side he’s on. But the feasibility of Trump’s plan is unclear both legally and politically, and it would test the bounds of a president’s executive powers in seeking to pressure another country.
But that figure includes cash from around the world, not just the United States. At a time when immigration is at the forefront, we can’t miss out on this opportunity to tell the untold story of immigration’s part in the education crisis. Learn English? Pay back taxes?
The second option would be to allow such immigrants to stay. The victor is usually “decrease”, though often by a narrow margin.
“I’ve never seen a poll in which Americans favored increasing immigration”, said Karlyn Bowman, a public opinion expert at the American Enterprise Institute, at a Brookings seminar on the issue in June.
Here are some of the key questions and answers on the issue as Trump’s big speech takes center stage. In winning the GOP nomination while espousing tough policies, he has made immigration something of a litmus test for future Republican Party nominees. Opposing such a path, as Trump does, proves one’s outsider bona fides. That seems less clear now than it did only a few days ago.
Trump is delivering a long-awaited speech on immigration and says that “no one” among the 11 million people who are in the United States illegally “will be immune or exempt from enforcement” on his watch. Only 15 percent said a softening would make them less likely to vote for him, while 36 percent said it would make no difference. In addition, a Government Accountability Office report in January said it is hard to track how much money Mexican immigrants working illegally in the United States are sending vs. money sent by those working legally. Other Trump surrogates up to and including his running mate Mike Pence, gave similar performances.
Not much is known about his plans for the immigration speech besides what he posted on Twitter Sunday night. Only then could they be assessed for a possible return.
That’s the conventional DC wisdom.
The Republican presidential nominee on Wednesday re-upped the harsh immigration rhetoric that electrified his primary campaign, vowing “no amnesty” for undocumented migrants living in the United States and promising to build a “beautiful” and “impenetrable” border wall that Mexico would pay for – hours after that country’s president vowed that it wouldn’t.
“They’re sending us not the right people”.
“All of [Trump’s] ideas.so far are so completely absurd”. But he also argues that this output may be offset by the fact that some don’t pay taxes, their children partake of government resources like schools and they also compete for jobs with US citizens. Will he build a wall? A “real wall” that “absolutely works”.
In August 2015, Trump told NBC’s Chuck Todd on Meet The Press, “We’re going to keep the families together, but they have to go”.
The issue is the cornerstone of Trump’s candidacy and it holds huge ramifications for millions of immigrants and the US economy. It’s the issue, a lynchpin, something they care deeply about.
He says, “Not going to happen with me folks”. Unfortunately, they do jobs that many other Americans won’t do.
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Podesta later added: “It turns out Trump didn’t just choke, he got beat in the room and lied about it”. But if he does, what will his base think?
